Fitzgerald- Sophomore Research: Example: mining for keywords

While reading and taking notes, you should write down your keywords? Why?

1. It will help you to identify subtopics for you to focus on for your thesis statement

2. you will use them to find more in depth scholarly articles and primary sources

We pulled a few keywords from the biographical encyclopedia on Kwame Nkrumah (to the left):

• March 6 1957
• Independent OR independence AND Ghana OR Nkrumah
• Ghana AND Constitution
• July 1 1960 AND Ghana
• "Organization of African Unity" AND Ghana
• Osagyefo AND Nkrumah