Researching Informative Essays or Speeches

Search Strategy

Boolean Operators are three words (AND, OR, NOT) that combine keywords into search strings. AND will narrow a search, OR will broaden a search, and NOT will narrow a search by excluding a keyword.

Examples:

vegetarian AND "animal rights"

vegetarian OR vegan

vegan NOT pescatarian

 

Quotation Marks can be used to search for exact phrases.  You do not have to put quotation marks around one word or search strings.

Example:    "animal rights"