Search Strategies:
1 understanding words of topics, and how they are related
2 5 step process:
a general ideas/cross out fuzzy/little words/underline remaining words/put 'and' between concepts/ put (") marks around phrases
3 search statement to database search
4 use truncating to expand word endings
5 build a keyword list
6 broad, narrow, similar terms
e.g. (copied from IRIS):
pet* and therapy and elderly
"health care" and child*
"school lunch*" and nutrit* and grade*
"cell phone*" and driv*
7 USE thesaurus, synonyms
8 use search strategy worksheet
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