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Identifying Keywords
Identifying Keywords
Generating Keywords
Generating Keywords
Fill out the worksheet to help you develop the keywords you will need to search for articles related to your thesis in our online databases.
Keyword WorksheetFinal2024.pdfWays to Narrow a Topic
Ways to Narrow a Topic
Starting with a topic that is way too broad to research for a short paper, for example "education." You can use these four categories on the right to narrow your topic down.
Using Boolean Operators to Search our Databases
Using Boolean Operators to Search our Databases
Boolean operators form the basis of database logic:
Boolean operators form the basis of database logic:
Used to narrow or broaden your search results
Why use Boolean operators?
Why use Boolean operators?
Focus your search and connect each keyword so you can find exactly what you are looking in the database
Tips:
Tips:
When combining operators such as AND and OR, make sure to put parenthesis around the "ORed" terms so the database knows to put them together.
ex. (education OR school) AND funding
Some databases automatically assume a space between words implies the AND operator, so when searching a phrase as a keyword, put quotes around it so the database searches it as a phrase instead of each word individually. This is true for Google searches as well.
ex. education AND "class size"
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