Research Guides: Wake Early College of Health and Sciences: Library Resources: Research Help

The Research Process

1. Identify your topic
2. Develop search terms
3. Conduct a search
4. Evaluate information
5. Cite your sources

MLA Formatting and Style Guide (OWL at Purdue University) [opens in new window]
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Coming up with search terms to use in the research databases can be tricky. Visuwords can help! Visuwords is a visual dictionary that will show you terms related to your main search term.

Visuwords (opens in new window)
Visuwords is a web-based visual dictionary and thesaurus tool. Search for words to look up their meanings and associations with other words in a visual diagram.

Boolean Search Basics

The following video explains boolean searching, or how to use the common operators "AND," "OR" and "NOT" to limit your searches within library databases.

Cushion, K. (2011, July 7). Boolean Searching Basics. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/jMV7X3W_beg

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Transcript for Boolean Searching Basics (Word document)