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Searching strategies• Keywords and keyword phrases• Connected with Boolean operators (AND, OR , NOT)• Brainstorm alternative terms, synonyms
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Boolean Operators
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women AND hypertension
hypertension OR “high blood pressure”
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AND is automatically used by Google and other search engines to combine terms
Building a Search StrategyResearch topic: language arts learning tools for middle school students Rephrase as a question: How do you motivate middle school students to read? Identify keywords and phrases middle school students” (middle school students) reading motivateHint: Truncation is a function allowing searches for different forms of a word. Motivat* retrieves -- motivation, motivating, motivator, motivational
Some alternative keywords and phrases
• Adolescents OR “middle school students”
• “Language arts” OR reading
• “teaching methods” OR motivation
• Achievement OR success
(“middle school students” OR adolescents) AND (“reading motivation” OR “teaching methods”) AND achievement
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