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Writing, learning and academic Skills
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1. Break your topic into concepts.
e.g. Social Entrepreneurship in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry.
Concept = Social entrepreneurship
Concept = Tourism
2. Consider alternative keywords:
Concept = Social enterprise, social innovation
Concept = Travel
3. Use truncation to search for variations of words:
Touris* (tourist, tourism)
4. Use inverted comas for phrases:
" social media"
5. Use AND to narrow the search:
AND hospitality
"social entrepreneurship" AND touris*
6. Use OR to broaden the search:
"social entrepr* OR "social innovat*"
7. Beware of differences between
English and American spelling
and terminology:
