One Book, One College: Research Resources

Possible Search Terms and Topic Key Words:

• Immigration
• Mexican Border
• Illegal Immigration
• Coyotes Immigration
• Undocumented Immigrants
• Mexican-American Border

Develop Strategies for Searching

• Use quotes around phrases
  • "hydraulic fracturing"    "junk food"     "drug abuse"    "peer groups"

• Use AND to narrow a search and combine different ideas
  • "junk food" AND taxation    "peer groups" AND "drug abuse"

• Use NOT to narrow a search by removing unwanted terms
  • "family formation" NOT marriage     religion NOT culture   

• Use OR to widen a search -- OR gives you mORe
  • "hydraulic fracturing" OR fracking    "peer group*" OR friend*
     
• Combine strategies to narrow or define a search more clearly
  • ("junk food" AND tax*) AND obesity   
  • (concussion OR "traumatic brain injur*") AND football
  • ("wildland firefighting OR "forest fires") AND safety

Use Truncation – cuts off the endings and returns all forms of a root word
Add an asterisk (shift 8) to the end of the word

• tax* returns taxes  taxing  taxation  taxed
• friend* returns friend friendly friends friendless