This document provides guidance on searching databases and constructing effective search strings using Boolean operators such as AND and OR. It also demonstrates how to search for root terms using asterisks and how to group specific phrases within quotation marks. Tips are included on common citation errors to avoid such as using all capital letters or missing the ending page number. The document recommends using Ctrl+T or Command+T to add a hanging indent when citing sources in Microsoft Word.

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7. Friends
Facebook
Computer mediated communication
Relationship maintenance
Interpersonal relations

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10. CONNECTORS.
AND use to search different variables
Searching
OR use to search related terms

11. SEARCHING.
* Asterisk is for root terms SHFT+8
Advanced
Latin* looks for Latin, Latino, Latinos,
LatinX

12. SEARCHING.
Advanced
“day without a Mexican”
“Quotes” use to group words together

13. “social penetration” and disclosure
Moral* and television and cultivation
“relational satisfaction” and maintenance or satisfaction

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24. Click here to get
the APA Citation
formatted

25. Ctrl+ T
Creates paragraphs
with hanging indents
in Microsoft Word.
Command + T (MAC)

26. Common Citation Errors.
1. Part of the citation is in ALL CAPS
2. Every Word Of The Article Title Is Capitalized (APA only)
3. The journal title is not italicized
4. The ending page number for your article is missing
5. There is no hanging indent
Before

27. Fixing the Errors.
1. Change any words that are all caps
2. Make the appropriate words lower case (APA)
3. Italicize the Journal Title
4. Look at the PDF of your document and find the
ending page number
5. Create a hanging indent
After
APA citation