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CED 7713 SUPPLEMENT: Method of Research--Research Process

Preparing your Search

Once you have selected a topic and reviewed general resources, you must decide what exactly interests you most about your topic. So you if you are using the topic in art therapy, and when you first put it into Galileo you get about  880,623 results! In reality, art therapy, in general, is such a broad topic. So when you come across you will need to start thinking about what is interesting to you about the topic. In this case, we are going to try keywords and phrases that will make the search results more manageable. 

Broad: Art Therapy 

Narrow: What models of art therapy, focusing on trauma, do therapists use to help WWII veterans. 

Just Right:  What models of art therapy do therapists use to treat Veterans with PTSD  

As you can see we've created a research topic. What do you think our main keywords are? 

 

Key Words: Art Therapy, Veterans, PTSD, therapists

These Keywords are what you put in the search query

As you can continue on your journey of searching, you will interstage these keywords and even discover some new keywords!