List keywords that relate each concept in your research (use a thesaurus, course readings, or lecture notes for ideas).
For example: "Is there a significant relationship between openness and employee performance?"
Keywords:
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Keyword Searching: Essentially taking your best guess at the terms which will appear in articles on your topic. This can be an effective search strategy, however, you may get a number of irrelevant results if the keywords you chose appear in irrelevant articles. You also never know if you've found all the articles on your topic.
Descriptor/Subject Searching: Descriptors or subject headings are the controlled vocabulary (or tags) used within a database to organize material. If you can find the right descriptors for your topic, you can focus your search on relevant articles and be sure that you've found everything on your topic.
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