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ENG 3342: Editing: Finding Articles

Search Tips

Search by keywords/small phrases and use Boolean searching. What's Boolean?

AND: "tech* writing" AND science
OR: writing OR rhetoric

Use "quotation marks" to search for phrases, "math education"

Use the limiting features like date and peer-reviewed journals. 

Consider truncation. The symbol used is usually *.

tech* will retrieve: tech, technologytechnical, technolingualism,etc. 

Check Subject terms to see if there are any synonym terms to consider.

| Google Scholar


Google Scholar can be a useful tool when collecting research information. Settings can be updated to display:

Library Links - FindIt@Txstate
Bibliography Manager - EndNote (refers to Desktop EndNote)

LibKey Nomad | CMU LibrariesLibKey Nomad

This is a browser extension - if you find an article on the web, it will bring you to the full-text through TXST Libraries. This tool can also help with alerting you to journals considered "Problematic" (potentially predatory).