Annotated Bibliography AP Lang 2019: Keywords and Search Strategies

Keywords are terms related to your topic.

They are the BIG IDEA WORDS.

If my thesis statement is: The pervasiveness of social media has led to a rise in body dissatisfaction among adolescent and young women.

Some keywords could be: 

1.) SYNONYMS

Teenagers

Teens

Adolescents

Young Adult

Young Women 

Female

Girls

2.) RELATED TERMS (or antonyms), for example:

Social Media

Body dissatisfaction 

body positivity 

Body image

Selfies

Instagram

Snapchat

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 Social Media AND Body Dissatisfaction

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

Example: "Social Media" or "Body Dissatisfaction"