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Instructions
Table of contents
Defining the question
Identifying resources
Improving a search
Evaluating websites
Glossary
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Description:

This tutorial will help you formulate your search strategy using Boolean operators, truncation, and limits. It will also provide additional strategies for broadening and narrowing in your search.

Content:

  1. Narrowing and broadening a search
  2. Combining key concepts in a search
  3. Understanding Boolean operators
  4. Using the OR operator
  5. Using the AND operator
  6. Using the NOT operator
  7. Using truncation to broaden a search
  8. Using limits to narrow a search
  9. Evaluating search results
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