This Research Guide should help students in SOC 250 Introduction to Social Work use library resources to find books and articles needed to complete class research assignments.
Using Keywords
It is important to pull out the KEYWORDS of your topic to search the Library databases. Think about all of the different terms you can use for a subject (i.e. youth, adolescent, teenager, etc.). Remember you can perform exact phrase searches by using quotes around your phrases.
For your Career Research Paper, try combining your occupational interest with a service population that interests you.
Occupational Interest
Service Population
"social work" or "social worker"
veterans
therapist
children or teenagers
counselor
incarcerated or prisoner
teacher
mental health
Here is an example of how you might enter search terms in the OneSearch.