Fill in & Email a Research Plan

Name:

Course Title & Number:

Your email address:

I. Define your topic

What topic are you researching? What broad subject areas does your topic fall under?

List what you know about your topic -- the who, what, when, where, why, and how:

What is your thesis statement or research question? What would you like to find out about your topic?

II. Devise a Search Strategy

Create a flexible search strategy for your topic using keywords from the boxes you filled in above. Connect primary keywords with AND going across and synonyms for each primary keyword with OR going down:

and and

or

and and

or

and and

Enter an email address to send this research plan to your instructor -and/or- yourself. You can also send this form to me, Celita DeArmond (cdearmond@alamo.edu), if you'd like feedback on your search strategy and tips on where to search: thanks to spammers, this form can only be sent to mail.accd.edu (PALS Portal) addresses.

TIP: Separate multiple email addresses with a comma like this: joe@alamo.edu,mary@alamo.edu

Note: when someone receives your plan in their email, the email address or sender for your plan will be: nobody@hermes.sac.alamo.edu

This is a fake address that protects the library from spammers.