Examples per faculty:
- Summary
Example
Social Sciences
Research Problem What is literacy? Key words ability, books, human, read, write Larger subjects
- education
- general education
- skills
- accomplishments
- attainment
- ability
- aquirement,
- read
- write
Narrower subjects
- functional literacy
- visual literacy
- computer literacy
Synonyms Synonyms for "literate"
- educated
- informed
- lettered
- enlightened
Different spellings
- literate
- literacy
See a mind map.
You must identify all the above-mentioned words to help you when you start your search. Using different words may retrieve different information, therefore use all possible options when you search for information.
After searches were done on the Library on-line catalogue on some of the words identified above, the following was found:
Definition:
Library on-line catalogue
The Library on-line catalogue is a database of titles of all the books, journals and audio- visual resources available in the Library.
It is clear that you get different results from different words used in the searches. That is why it is so important to identify and follow up every possible word related to your topic.
