ASSIGNMENT: This week please$$develop$$the research question OR thesis statement that you plan to use for your research paper,$$then identify$$the keywords$$AND$$the Boolean search operators to use in your search parameters via the library databases and the Internet.$($Boolean search$$is a type of$$search$$allowing users to combine keywords with operators $($or modifiers$)$ such as$$AND$,$NOT$$and$$OR$$to further produce more relevant results.$)$

For example, if your thesis statement is:$$Funding for prison education programs should be restored to reduce recidivism, then your keywords should be:$$Prison AND education AND recidivism.$$These keywords will limit your results from the library or Internet search to articles$/$website that only contain these words.