Effective Academic Research: Boolean Operators and Digital Database Search
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Navigating Digital Scholarly Repositories
Tertiary research demands finding credible peer-reviewed sources quickly rather than browsing generic web pages.
Mastering Boolean Operators
- AND: Narrows search results (e.g.,
"language acquisition" AND "Sri Lanka"). - OR: Expands search with synonyms (e.g.,
ESL OR EFL OR "second language"). - NOT / Minus (-): Excludes irrelevant domains (e.g.,
"applied linguistics" -medical). - Quotation Marks (""): Enforces exact phrase matching.
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