First-Generation Students

Do you dread having to work on a research project?  It really isn't that bad if you have a planned search strategy before you begin.  See the tutorial below to help get you started!

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Use one or more of the following with your topic to narrow down an aspect of your topic when you Build Your Searches.  Use Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT), to further limit ideas, concepts and topics. 

• argument
• attitudes
• benefits
• confronting
• crimes against
• crisis
• criticism
• debate
• definition
• ethics
• health aspects
• interviews
• issues
• laws or regulations
• outcomes
• outlook
• political aspects
• policy
• prevention
• projects
• properties
• psychological aspects
• public opinion
• reform
• religious aspects
• rights
• research
• social policy
• statistical data
• structure
• theories
• trend
• usage
• viewpoint

Remember to use "quotation marks" around phrases to search for words as phrases. Check this video for other tools to build your searches.