Solving Chicago's Problems: Using Keywords to Search

Keywords are terms related to your topic.

They are the BIG IDEA WORDS.

Social

-          DACA

-          Local vs. Big Businesses

-          Gentrification

-          Poverty

-          Gangs

-          Youth Violence

-          Police Violence

-          Homelessness

• Women
• Veterans
• Mental illness

-          LGBTQ Community

Educational:

-          Funding

-          Literacy

-          Arts Programs

-          Sports

-          Bullying

Health/Environment  

-          Air Pollution

-          Recycling

-          Food Deserts

-         Opioid Addiction (Opiod Crisis)

-          Personal Health

•    Heart Disease
•    Obesity
•    Tobacco 

The act of combining keywords, key phrases, common words and terms to conduct your searches is call a search strategy. 

Two powerful search strategies are:

1.) Conducing a Boolean search that combines keywords and/or phrases using AND, OR, and NOT

Example: Chicago AND DACA

2.) Putting quotation marks around phrases to search for an exact phrase

Example: "police brutality" or "public schools"