Direct URL for this page: https://libguides.libraries.wsu.edu/Eng301-Coleman
How this Library Class Will Work:
Using the Library in COVID-19 times...
Accessing materials from off-campus:
2. LibKey Nomad
3. Directly from within the Libraries website (or via the campus VPN if you use it)
Searching Tool Kit:
(download topic/keyword handout located to the left)
Keywords and Synonyms - Search Terms:
(wider/narrower)
broken windows
crime police
Truncation/Wildcards:
crim*
polic*
Phrase Searching:
"broken window*"
Connectors and Intersections (AND, OR etc.) (aka Venn diagrams or Boolean operators):
AND - Things that jump AND Things that swim = Frogs
OR - Things that jump OR Things that swim = all the brown plus all the blue
"broken windows" (polic* OR crim*)
Grouping (and putting it all together!):
One box:
Multiple boxes (often in Advanced Search mode):
| "broken windows" |
OR |
ANYWHERE↓ |
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AND |
Polic* |
OR |
crim* |
ANYWHERE↓ |
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AND↓ |
OR |
ANYWHERE↓ |
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