Evaluating your position is a good first step in planning your search for supporting evidence - or for additional evidence if your thesis is based on some initial reading. For example, the student described here planned searches based on the working thesis: "Employers need to consider the advantages to them and their workers in allowing employees to take longer vacations." She made a list of the following key terms to search her library's databases:

• benefits of vacation time for employers/employees
• workplace morale; productivity; profit
• preventing employee burnout
• census statistics on vacation time, employers, employees
• potential downside/negative effects/unintended consequences of time off

To plan your search, jot down key terms that could help you refine your position or more effectively address challenges to it. Your list should be in an MLA formatted document. Submit it to the dropbox using the link below by the deadline listed in the course schedule.