1-Topics   2-Keywords 3-Books  4-Articles   5-Internet   6-Works Cited   NCC Library

Keywords
Combining Keywords into a Search Statement

Combining Keywords into Search Statements

Just as you narrowed your topic, you can also narrow your computer search by
combining your keywords into a search statement by using the word AND.

For example: if you were searching for information about the legalization of marijuana,
combining the keywords legal? (remember to truncate as needed) AND marijuana would tell
the computer to search only books or articles specifically about the legal aspects of marijuana.

Other aspects of both law and drugs would be ignored.

MORE EXAMPLES:
Question: Is the death penalty biased against minorities?
Keywords: death penalty
capital punishment
execut?
death row		 bias
raci?		 minorit?
black?
african-american?  
hispanic?
raci?
 
Search
Statement
possibilities:
  1. minorit? AND death penalty
  2. minorit? AND capital punishment
  3. black? AND death penalty
  4. death row AND raci?
  5. capital punishment AND hispanic?

Question: What are the hereditary factors in schizophrenia?
Keywords: hered?
gene?		 schizo?
mental illness?
 split personalit?
multiple personalit?
madness
 
Search
Statement
possibilities:
  1. schizo? AND hered?
  2. schizo? AND gene?
  3. split personalit? AND hered?
  4. gene? AND madness
  5. gene? AND multiple personalit?

NEXT: Practice Creating Search Statements