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The words you use for searching are known as keywords and they can come from many places: your topic question, brainstorming, your textbooks and other readings, relevant articles you find on your topic, etc.
Be sure to look at the additional resources linked on the Selecting the Best Keywords page:
Targeting Effective Keywords - discipline-specific examples of turning a topic sentence or research question into search terms.
You may also want to look at the Choose Keywords tab of our guide on How to Search the Library.
You may also want to check out our video: Searching With Keywords [3 minutes, 17 seconds]
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