Finding information requires a lot of skills that you may not be aware that you have or that you are developing.
Review the information in Step 4 to learn about evaluating what you find. Check out information in Step 5 about Citation Trails to learn how to discover additional citations to relevant works to help you answer your research question.
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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:
“Italian Renaissance”
"pictorial hangings"
"15th century"
"Mannerist period"
"Renaissance architecture"
"Battle of San Romano"
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 architect* and you will search for architect, architects, architecture, etc.
Add the truncation symbol to the word paint* to search for paint, painter, painters, painting etc.
religio* to search for religion, religious etc.
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