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If you do not know the exact title of a book or journal, or if you want to find out what books and journals are available on your research topic, you can try a key word search. Start by highlighting the most important words or phrases in your essay question. Do not include instruction words or small words such as ‘the’, ‘and’, and ‘in’. For example, if you have been given the question below, you could type in the word management.

Examine the impact of management style on teamwork in organizations.

The catalogue will show all the items that contain management in the title. If you get too many hits, narrow down your search by adding another key word, teamwork or organizations for example.

Exercise 3

Underline the key words and phrases in the essay questions below.

1 Assess the European Central Bank’s response to the Eurozone financial crisis.

2 Compare and contrast social media use among young people in the United States and in China.

3 Give an account of the role of ribonucleic acid in protein synthesis.

4 Trace the history of the comic book.

Exercise 4

Type one of the key words or phrases you have underlined for each question into the key word search facility in your library catalogue and see what happens. Try a different key word or combination of words and compare your results.

Tips

If you do not get any hits, or too few hits using key words from your essay title:

try using synonyms (= words that have a very similar meaning) or related words. Instead of management, for example, type leadership.

or use a more general term. For example, for Give an account of the role of ribonucleic acid in protein synthesis, you could use cell biology as your key words.

Exercise 5

Write synonyms for expressions 1–4.

1 financial crisis

2 social media

3 young people

4 comic book

Try a key word search of your library catalogue using these synonyms and compare your results with your results from Exercise 4.