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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:
“health insurance”
“meat industry”
"child labor"
“community college students”
“star wars the force awakens”
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
household OR domestic
AND
“food waste” OR "food loss"
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 consum* to search for consume, consumes, consumer, consumers etc.
Add the truncation symbol to the word transfer* to search for transfer, transfers, transferable, transferring etc.
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