Anthropology 170 (Perez)

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To search for specific phrases, enclose them in quotation marks. The database will search for those words together in that order.

Examples:

“Southeast Asia”

“social class”

“student activism”

“first-generation college students”

AND, OR

Join together search terms in a logical manner.

AND - narrows searches, used to join dissimilar terms
OR - broadens searches, used to join similar terms

Examples:

#1
motivation AND grades

#2
“student achievement” OR “student success”

#3
engineering
AND
women OR females
AND
“career choice”

TRUNCATION

Truncate a word in order to search for different forms of the same word. Many database use the asterisk * as the truncation symbol.

Example:

Truncate the word education educat* to search for educate, educates, education, educational etc.

Add the truncation symbol to the word negotiat* to search for negotiate, negotiates, negotiating, negotiable etc.