#SearchSmart! Information Literacy Tutorial

Let's analyse the components of the following assignment question:

“Analyse the use of smartphones among urban youth in South Africa during the past decade”

Can you spot the: "keywords", "action word(s)" and the "limiting words"?

Enter your answers here to check for the correct answer / feedback.

Now learn about specifying keywords for your information search below:

Once the main keywords and phrases in the topic are listed, look at each of them and try to generate synonyms, broader, narrower and related terms. Here's an example of how to specify keywords and related terms for an information search on the topic of:

“Analyse the use of smartphones among urban youth in South Africa.”

These terms provide variations, related concepts, and more specific categories associated with the keywords. They can be helpful for research, information retrieval, or expanding the scope of understanding in the context of smartphones, urban youth, South Africa and related topics.