Introduction - Brainstorm Search Terms

Brainstorming helps you choose good search terms. For example, look at the list of keywords and phrases we thought of for this research paper topic:

Concerns about email security demand better programming, authenticated email addresses and more caution from users.

• email
• e-mail
• security
• programming
• caution
• authentication

• Internet security
• electronic mail systems
• software utilities

Now it's your turn. On the next page, we'll give you a sample topic so you can practice brainstorming for good keywords and phrases. For each of the four steps, type all of the terms you can think of in a text box and click on process it!

When you show the computer your list, it will show you ours. Let's see your Thought Process in action.