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.
“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
policies OR regulation OR legislation
Search #3
violence OR fight
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.
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.
