Creating Keywords

Once you have narrowed your topic a bit, you will need to come up with relevant and effective keywords, phrases, and terms to describe your topic. Generating keywords can be trickier than sometimes anticipated. You’ll most likely need to come up with different combinations of keywords as you will be researching different aspects of your topic. When you are generating keywords, think about synonyms and related terms for the main aspects of the topic you are researching.

Sample Topic: How does gender play a role in comic books?

The main aspects of this topic are gender and comic books. 

Now we want to also think about synonyms and related terms for these search terms