Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Keywords

How can my K9 and I become a more consistently productive tracking team?

K9
Dog
Service Dog
Canidea
Partner

Consistently
Consistent
Systematically
In-consistent
Day to Day

Productivity
Successful
Originative
Creative
Fruitful
Generative
Good

Tracking
Trailing
Follow
Chase

Team
Squad
Partners
Group

During this exercise I first read on how to start with your original words and turn them into keywords. I did the exercise on the “Using my research question to generate search terms.” This exercise proved to be most helpful when it came to breaking down my question. Also this question made me realize that my original question wasn’t good enough and so I changed it. I used several of the listed websites, but mainly I used: Word Source and Think map Visual Thesaurus. These two websites were very easy to navigate. This assignment showed me how to use my words in different ways. I was finding that I was struggling on websites to find information, now I feel with these new “alternative” words I will be able to broaden my research. I also added some words that mean the opposite of what I am meaning in my question because some of the best articles you can find are the ones who oppose you.

1 comment:

Richard "Benefits of school uniform" said...

RKrantz ENGL 112. I thought that the paragraph that you wrote on the assignment for researching key words was "outstanding". I found your recommendation on using the opposite words to help find additional research words very useful. The paragraph was complete, easy to understand and very helpful. Thank you