This exercise will help you to put what you are learning this week to work for you as you start thinking about your Search Strategy assignment. Choose one of the suggested topics, then pose a question that you want to answer about that topic. This will be your preliminary research question. Then, plan a preliminary research strategy, which should include some search phrases that include Boolean logic. Please answer the following questions in your discussion post:

• What is your topic of interest and your research question? Please share how you created your research question.
• Where will you begin your search and why?
• What search terms will you use? Please demonstrate them in a search statement using Boolean logic (Boolean AND, OR and nesting). If you really want to impress me and your classmates, try an advanced searching technique (exact phrase searching or truncation or both)!! This is preparing you for the Search Strategy Assignment.
• What was the easiest part of this activity? Did you get stuck trying to come up with a search strategy? What was the hardest part of the activity?
• Please see below for suggested topics. Thank you.
  • The effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on higher education
  • The importance of the Suez Canal to global commerce
  • The effect of pets on owners’ mental health
  • The effect of telework on the real estate market