Combining terms from a topic definition statement:

Background
Much collegiate sportswear is produced in sweatshops in third world countries. Laborers earn pennies a day under horrible working conditions. Yet consumers pay exorbitant prices for these goods.

Purpose
This paper will examine the degree to which consumers are able to influence corporations to do business in an ethically and socially responsible manner. Therefore I will identify instances of abuses in the collegiate sportswear industry and demonstrate how consumers can make an impact upon corporations.

Key question
"What impact can ethical consumerism have on corporations?"

Break down the key question into key concepts:
	Concept #1	Concept #2	Concept #3
Key concepts	corporations	ethics	consumers
Think of additional terms	businesses	social responsibility	---

STEP 1 - [use the OR connector first]

Create sets which will retrieve into one set ANY ONE of the terms which represents a single idea.

STEP 2 - [do AND's next]

Create a single set which will retrieve into one set ALL of the separate concepts that must appear.

STEP 3 - Using parentheses to 'nest' the OR'ed concepts, write a sentence which reflects the entire search concept

(corporations OR businesses) AND (ethics OR social responsibility) AND consumers

STEP 4 -Place search statements in the appropriate boxes on the database search page