1.  Advanced Search for your assignment
 Before your search
Job Discrimination Female Japan
Work Unfair Woman Japanese
Employment Inequity Women
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2.  Advance Search for your assignment topic
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 You can customize your search settings in
advanced search

4.  Boolean Operators
Female OR Women
Female AND
Discrimination
Female Discrimination Female Women
AND OR
Employ* Employer
Employ* NOT Employer
NOT
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5.  Truncation
◦ Use * symbol to search words with varied endings:
employment, employee, employees
employ*
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6.  Wild card
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7.  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

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