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Discover how to identify research topics and use effective search strategies to determine if there is a link between arts education and academic success. Learn key terms, eliminate unnecessary words, and refine your search for valuable sources of information.
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Search Strategies First Steps
Identify Research Topic Is there a correlation between arts education and academic achievement?
Find Key Terms Eliminate the stop words, punctuation, etc. Is there a correlation between arts education andacademic achievement?
Initial Search Strategy • Use quotation marks for phrases • Connect terms with the Boolean operator AND “arts education” AND “academic achievement” AND correlation
Use Truncation to Get More Cut off an ending and add asterisk* correlat* To get: correlate, correlates, correlation, correlating
Use the “OR” Operator to Get More “correlat* OR connect* OR research”
Identify Synonyms for more Searches • Arts-Study & teaching (LC subject heading) • “educational outcomes” • curriculum • connection • statistics • evidence
Now to the Sources of Information Fitzgerald Library Website Your Research Guide