#1 Phrase searching " ", use quotation marks to search for a phrase (NARROWS)
- e.g. "written communication", "literature review", "writing a literature review"
#2 AND to join different terms/concepts (NARROWS); OR to join similar terms/concepts (BROADENS)
- e.g. "technical writing" AND engineer*
- e.g. "science writing" OR "writing in the sciences"
#3 Use truncation * to look for variations of a word (BROADENS)
- e.g. engineer* = engineer, engineers, engineering etc.
- e.g. intelligen* = intelligent, intelligence, intelligences
#4 Use specific fields in a database. (NARROWS)
- e.g. limit to a Title field
- e.g. limit to Abstract field
