Professional & Technical Communication

Workplace writing in a variety of places and ways

A Supplemental Text for English 3764 at Virginia Tech as taught by Traci Gardner <tengrrl @ vt. edu>

Search Terms and Methods

Table 6.1: Research Questions and Methods, in Markel and Selber, outlines various keywords that relate to research questions. Building on this introduction, watch the two LinkedIn Learning videos Search terms and methods: Keyword vs. controlled vocabulary (6m 57s) and Search terms and methods: Boolean searching (3m 48s) to learn even more about how to choose keywords and search effectively. These videos are free with your VT login. Follow these instructions to login.

Screenshot of the Search Terms and Methods video