Databases contains articles with information that will guide you to the answers you seek. Instead of searching with questions on databases, you have to search for information using KEYWORDS.
When extracting KEYWORDS from your assignment or essay, you need to look at the key concepts that encapsulate your assignment.
Example:
Is it true that economic growth makes the rich richer and the poor poorer?
KEYWORDS:
Note: The concepts that you are looking for are not always expressed in the
language of the assignment or question, but often through other related terms.
See the Guide for step-by-step instructions.
AND – returns results with both keywords. AND usually limits the search results
OR – returns results with one or the other keyword.It broadens your results by connecting two or more synonyms.
Use the Boolean Machine for visualizing the effects of Boolean operators .
More tips:
Quotation Marks “ ” – keep keywords together, for exact phrase searching
Brackets ( ) – keep concepts together, used for synonyms
Example:
("green energy" OR "sustainable energy" OR "renewable energy") AND (logistics OR "supply chain" OR "value chain")
Example:
Discuss the impact of white collar crime on the economy
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White collar crime |
economy |
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Organizational crime |
business |
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Corporate crime |
Financial industry |
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companies |
Example Topic: Discuss the impact of white collar crime on the economy.
Search string:
("white collar crime" OR "organizational crime" OR "corporate crime") AND (business OR "financial industry" OR economy OR companies)
