Always think about different ways to say the same thing. Start with keywords to describe your topic, within results, read the abstract and look at the subject headings to identify additional keywords to use and revise the search (if needed).
Retrieve too many results? Limit to scholarly articles, limit words to subject
Search Strategies:
Place phrases in quotes so the whole phase will be searched together and not the words individually
"feminist theory"
"gender role"
"body image"
"gender identity"
"mass media"
"social media"
"equal rights"
"gender inequality"
"mental health"
"African American"
"feminist theory"
"reproductive rights"
Place an * at the end of the word to retrieve all the variations
role* = role or roles
feminis* = feminism or feminist or feminists
sex* = sex or sexes or sexism
ethnic* = ethnic or ethnicity
movie* = movie or movies
college* = college or colleges
universit* = university or universities
use - or - to connect synonyms or like concepts
any of the words can be present
"gender role" or "gender identity"
"social media" or "social network"
workplace or job
islam or muslim
fatphobia or "weight discrimination" or "weight stigma"
college* or universit*
discrimination or racism or prejudice or stereotype* or bias or stigma
"feminist methodology" or "feminist theory"
covid or coronavirus or covid-19
use - and - to connect concepts
all terms must be included
media and women and (muslin or islam)
abortion and (law or legislation) and religion
globalization and china and women
"body image" and "mass media"
"sexual harassment" and women and (workplace or job)
health and ("feminist theory" or "feminist methodology")
Additional examples:
(discrimination or racism or prejudice or stereotype or bias or stigma)
and
"research methodology"
and
(female* or women)
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(discrimination or racism or prejudice or stereotype or bias or stigma)
and
"research methodology"
and
(female* or women)
and
"African American*"
