Be specific:
Use nouns and unique words
Put the main words first
Use multiple terms when possible
|
For bias in
newspapers try combinations
of the following words:
newspapers bias slant censorship
journalism
|
Use
quotes around phrases so the
search engine will search for the words
as a phrase, not
as separate words |
"world
health organization" |
Use
connectors (capitalize) to
link two or more terms: and narrows
a search, or broadens
a search, not refines |
television AND children
adolescents OR teenagers |
Use lower case letters to
find words that are either lower
or upper case
|
japanese internment
"world war ii"
|
Use parentheses around
terms that are alike; enter connectors
in capital letters
|
(adolescents OR
teenagers)
television AND children |
| Use truncation to
find various endings of the word |
psychol* will
find psychology, psychological,
psychologist
(Check individual database for symbol) |
Use
wildcards to replace
characters within a word
|
f?rm will find farm,
firm, form
(Check individual database for symbol) |
