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ENGLC1000 (Woltag)

This is a course guide for Prof Woltag's ENGLC1000 class

Searching with Keywords

Keywords help narrow down search results, making them more relevant to your specific search. By using specific terms, you can focus on the information you need. But keywords don't always have to be specific: combining the right words with broader terms can generate good results as well. Here are some related keywords you might want to start with when searching. See below on how to combine them to narrow your results:

  • disability 
  • justice
  • equality
  • activism
  • social justice
  • social change
  • systemic change
  • oppression
  • rights
  • ableism

Combining Search Terms to Narrow Your Search

You will need to combine search terms to narrow your search in the library catalog and databases in order to find books and articles that are relevant to your own topic. Based on the list above, here are some examples of combined search terms. Click on the buttons to see the different results in the library catalog that comes from these combinations.

 

Ready to try searching on your own?

Try searching your own search terms in the catalog and in the databases below. Try different search terms related to your topic beyond the list above. Note that the examples above use phrase searching to help narrow the search results. Phrase searching is when you put multi-word phrases within quotation marks in order to search for that specific phrase instead of the words as separate search words. Try it yourself when searching.

Start with these databases

Finding Books