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Library Research: Understanding Library Databases: Define your topic

Defining your topic

​A good research topic usually contains 2-3 concepts. It is often in the form of a research question or statement. Topics with only 1 concept  or many may be hard to research.

​Look at the examples below to learn how to break a topic into concepts. We will use the concepts as keywords that will be entered into the database to retrieve articles.