General Searching Strategies
- Consider the who, what, where, when, and why of your topic.
- Identify synonyms, related concepts, alternate spellings.
- Explore both general and specific terms - a more general term will get you more results than a more specific term.
Combine your keywords in a search using search operators.
- Quotation marks search the phrase as a unit.
- AND narrows by connecting two terms/concepts. The search results must contain both terms/concepts.
- OR broadens your search. The search results will contain either or both terms and is used between synonyms or related terms.
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