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Subject: Database's vocabulary (different for each database)
Keyword: Your vocabulary
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Databases use a grammar of AND, OR, AND NOT. No prepositions, verbs, determiners, affixes -- anything you learned in English or human language classes
Use your book and overview article to find terms and topics:
I found an article on MIgrant Health. (See the link below). I thought of a question I might want to find information about:
There seems to be protective factors for newly arrived immigrants that are lost in subsequent generations. Why might this be true?
Click on the link below and see how I found words that I can use in my search. Here are the first 2 pages with new search terms circled:
Then I organized the words into groups by similarity or synonyms. (Migrant or immigrant).
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population
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illness
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sociological situation
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| migrants | "respiratory disease" | agricultural |
| hispanic OR latino | "lung disease" | "industrialized nation" |
| farmworkers | allergies OR allergens | "disease awareness" |
| immigrants |
To search in SocIndex and Academic Search Premier (links below), choose one word from each box and put AND between them. You'll get articles that are about all three. Play with mixing the terms up with each other until you get a good search: (Notice if words are redundant: farmworkers and agriculture -- you probably don't need both).
farmworkers AND "respiratory illness"
immigrants AND allergies
Do the same thing with your overview article. Then search in SocINDEX and Academic Search Premier.