Search Tips
Some tips to get better, more specific results:
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Identify key concepts. |
| Let's say your topic is "How does the media effect body image?"
The key concepts would be: |
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Use quotes around phrases. |
| Anytime you have 2 or more words you want together, put "quotation
marks" around them: "body image" |
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Use AND between concepts. |
| AND narrows your results to ones that have all your key concepts: media AND "body image" |
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Use OR between synonyms. |
| Different authors might use different words to describe the same
concept. Searching for synonyms ensures you get results with any of those
words: (media OR television OR advertising) |
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Truncate words in your search. |
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Use a "truncation" symbol (usually an asterisk *)
after the root of a word to get results with any variations of that word. |
Need help with your search strategies? Just Ask A Librarian.
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