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Research Process: Identify Keywords

Explains how to find a topic and turn it into a search. Shows you how to find, evaluate, use, and cite books and articles for use in your research.

Search Tips

AND

Media AND bias

Narrows the search to entries containing both terms

OR

Beer OR wine

Broadens the search to entries containing either term

NOT

Bat NOT baseball

Excludes entries containing the second term

“  “

“social work”

Retrieves results containing the exact phrase in quotes

?

Globali?ation

Wildcard: retrieves both globalization and globalisation

*

Doctor*

Truncation: Retrieves doctor, doctors, doctored