Information Seeking Strategies
1. What do you already know about your thesis?
2. Question Storm your thesis statement.
3. Determine all possible information sources and select the best resources.
4. Identify important keywords.

1. Think about your preliminary thesis statement and list what you already know about your topic.

2. Think about your preliminary thesis statement and "ask" questions about it.
Consider asking questions that are memory, convergent, divergent, and evaluative!

Sample: Thesis -
The ionization of table salt by the US Government resulted in decreased thyroid malfunctions.
Question Storm!!??!!

Questions:
What is the thyroid?
What purpose does the thyroid have?
How does iron effect the thyroid?
What are some thyroid malfunctions? What causes these malfunctions?
Are these malfunctions directly related to iron deficiency?
What are other sources of iron?
Prior to the US Government ionizing table salt, what thyroid problems existed in this country?
How is salt ionized?
How much iron is added to salt?
When did this process begin?
What is a goiter?

2. Think about your questions and determine the best resources to help you answer the questions.
General encyclopedias, subject specific references-health reference, Gale Student Reference, ProQuest, health websites, community resources- interview a doctor, look at salt boxes to determine iron content

3. Think about your questions, what keywords or search words can you identify in the questions?
thyroid, iron, iron deficiency, US Gov., goiter

These keywords will help you use indexes, tables of contents, online databases, search directories and engines.

Continue to generate questions as you do your research. More questions will generate more keywords.