A.P. Language Synthesis and Research: Keywords and Search Strategies

Keywords are terms related to your topic.

They are the BIG IDEA WORDS.

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 Education AND technology

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

Example: "College Board" or "Advanced placement"