Carnegie High School Fall 2015 Frederic Murray Assistant Professor MLIS, University of British Columbia BA, Political Science, University of Iowa Instructional Services Librarian Al Harris Library
Topics Middle Ages/England Renaissance/England 1984/George Orwell
Identifying Keywords: Identify the significant terms and concepts that describe your topic from your thesis statement or research question. These terms will become the key for searching catalogs, databases, and search engines for information about your subject.
Example Orwell and language 1984 and Politics Eric Blair and writing Newspeak Freedom
Boolean AND = Narrow OR = Expand NOT = Exclude
Keywords & Boolean Create search strings… Renaissance and England and war Renaissance and England and art English art and middle ages
Keywords & Boolean Orwell and Freedom and 1984 Newspeak and Orwell
1984 and Advertising and Orwell
Discovery Refine Results –Source Types News Magazines Academic Journals –Full Text –Subject
Discovery - Results HTML PDF Full Text through Link Source
APA Citation Guides: Digital Citing Sources in MLA Style : Al Harris Library (SWOSU) OWL: Purdue Online Writing Lab You can access these remotely without being a SWOSU student.
Questions? Contact me: –Frederic Murray
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