| 1) Determine the key ideas and terms in your topic. |
I'm interested in the role of education as it pertains to the transnational experience of Koreans in the United States. |
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2) Identify and use synonyms or related terms for key terms and phrases.
Is there another way to express a concept? For instance, what might be other terms to describe a specific transnational experience?
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Education > Vocational Training
Education > Educational Attainment
Migration
Religious participation
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| 3) Consider the types of publications that may have the information you need. |
books, scholarly articles, newspapers? |
| 4) Select useful resources to search. Expand your search options with library databases. |
See the database listing and associated summaries which describe database content. |
| 5) Construct a search strategy. Generally start with keyword searching. Some databases parse terms "as is" while other databases return better results when search conventions are used. |
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Specific Search Strategies:
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Examples:
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| Join similar terms with OR |
family OR kinship
migra* OR immigra*
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| Join dissimilar terms with AND |
remittance AND migration
Haitians AND transnational
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| Truncate a term for alternate endings (usually a * or ?) |
transnational*
diaspor*
immigra*
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| Look for a phrase " " |
"transnational migration"
"ethnic identity"
"collective remittances"
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