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Jackman Humanities Institute - Scholars in Residence - 2023

A library guide supporting research projects included in the JHI SiR 2020 program.

Choose Keywords

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:

openness = open, intellectual, curious, thoughtful, creative
performance = evaluation, achievement

Boolean

Boolean Operators: AND, OR, NOT

*Created by McMaster Libraries

Boolean: Modifiers "", *, ()

Building your search strategy

Research Question:

How is gender represented in superhero films?

Concept One: Gender	Concept Two: super hero	Concept Three: film
woman	vigilante	movie
man	protagonist	cinema
girl	comic book	motion picture