HRMT 30261 Collective Bargaining: Search Tips

Remember - if you use AND, OR or NOT in your search, those words must be in capital letters, e.g.

• "global warming" OR "climate change"
• "social media" AND Canada

Enclose phrases in quotation marks, e.g.:

• "climate change"
• "social media"
• "human resources"
• "supply chain management"

Step One: Create and write your research question, example:

Should employees in Canada be given unlimited vacation time?

Step Two: Create your search, focus on nouns only. These will be your keywords or phrases - not who, why, where, when, how or what.

1. employees  2. vacation 3. Canada

Step Three: Identify synonyms for each keyword or phrase. Remember to put any phrases in quotes, e.g., "Canadian employees".

You can find more synonyms or keywords using the Visual Thesaurus (see below) or Thesaurus.com .

Try adding an asterisk *  to the root of any word to pick up other variations of the word:

• Canad* will also find Canada, Canada's, Canadian
• work* will also retrieve workplace, workers, worked, working