Spark 001 - Flesh & Bone: Forensic Science (Jarrell)

As you read, what place, people, activities, themes, and issues are surfaced?  Consider using these terms in searching for books or articles.

Examples:

"forensic anthropologist", bones, "tooth fragment", "crime scene", etc.

" "

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

Examples:

“forensic science”

"age at death"

"hand stencil"

AND, OR

Join together search terms in a logical manner.

AND - narrows searches, used to join dissimilar terms
 

Sample Searches Using AND:

Search #1
"forensic anthropology" AND drought

Search #2

violence

AND

bone

OR

Join together search terms in a logical manner.
OR - broadens searches, used to join similar terms

Sample Searches Using OR/AND:

Search #1
patella OR knee

Search #2
government

AND

policies OR regulation OR legislation

Search #3

violence OR fight

AND

site

TRUNCATION

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

Examples:

Truncate the word forens* and you will search for forensic, forensics

Add the truncation symbol to the word anthropolog* to search for anthropology, anthropologist, anthropological,  etc.