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Information Literacy Tutorial for the Biological & Biomedical Sciences

Thinking Critically about your Topic

Search Strategies & Topic Development Techniques Developing a usable research topic requires some critical thinking skills. When defining your topic, it is helpful to do the following: 1. State your topic as a question 2. Identify Concepts (for Keyword Searches) 3. Narrow or broaden your topic as needed

Helpful and Optional Worksheet

Try MeSH for search terms