Remember that before you begin searching you'll want to create a list of search terms or keywords. For more on this process, review Choosing a Topic.

Now let's imagine you're writing a paper on the effectiveness of bilingual education for Hispanic immigrants. As you develop your keywords, it can help to break your question into concepts and make a list of synonyms or like-words for each topic.

This way, if you don't find quite the right articles at first, you can substitute other keywords to help continue your search; they can also help you broaden or refine your search.