Step 2: Select and Combine Search words
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Conceptual Map
Starting the effective search process saves time and effort in retrieving the needed search results for your research hence, it could be helpful to summarise what you know about a topic on a flow diagram and pick out the synonym, general and narrower terms, keywords, abbreviations, and acronyms regarding the selected subject, which helps you make a Concept map.
What is the Concept map?
- The concept map is a diagram that shows the relationships between different ideas that helps you understand how they are connected.
- It is a visual tool for strategic analysis and planning.
- The "conceptual map" is a powerful tool for drawing your idea into the research paper with your own words and text.
Figure 3: Conceptual Map
In this step of your research, you need to focus on your selected subject because you might notice that your topic field is not specified, so you need to narrow it, or the topic is narrower than you need to abroad it.
Tricks & Tips
- You can browse thesaurus and dictionaries to have some keywords. Thesaurus| Dictionary
- eResources & eJournals could help you discover more databases that bring you some keywords. To eResources & eJournals
- Google Scholar could help you to discover more words that you could use.