Phrase searching
Put quotation marks around words that you want to search as a phrase.
"Wild Angels" “human rights” “charismatic authority” “negative capability”
Truncation
Shorten terms and add an asterisk * to search for all forms of the root word.
symbol* = symbol + symbols + symbolism
Boolean Operators
Use Boolean operators to refine your search results.
AND - Use AND to find articles with all of your search terms.
Recitatif AND guilt
Keats AND "negative capability"
“Harlem Renaissance” AND “women writers”
Plath AND metaphor
“Road Not Taken” AND symbolism
OR - Use OR to find articles that have either search term in them.
irony OR sarcasm OR satire
"charismatic authority" OR "charismatic leader"
"mother figure" OR "maternal transference"
"Le Guin" OR LeGuin
"bad thoughts" OR "evil thoughts"
Put parentheses () around your ORs if other Boolean operators are present.
Weber AND ("charismatic authority" OR "charismatic leader")
guilt AND ("bad thoughts" OR "evil thoughts")
"Three Strangers" AND (irony OR sarcasm OR satire)
NOT - Use NOT to eliminate terms you do not want in your search results.
(graffiti OR "street art") NOT "American Graffiti"
