advanced search skills
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Advanced Search for your assignment
Before your search
Job Discrimination Female Japan
Work Unfair Woman Japanese
Employment Inequity Women
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Boolean Operators
Female OR Women Female AND
Discrimination
Female Discrimination Female Women
AND OR
Employ* Employer
Employ* NOT Employer
NOT
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Truncation ◦ Use * symbol to search words with varied endings: employment, employee, employees
employ*
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Phase search
◦ Search two words together in exact order
◦ E.g. Use “Job discrimination” to find “job” and “discrimination” next to each other
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Stop Word
◦ In search engines, a stop word is a commonly used word that a search engine has been programmed to ignore
◦ E.g. “the”, “a”, “an” and preposition