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Narrow your search

Too many search results to look through? Need to narrow?

Try these tips:

Narrowing and Broadening your keywords

  • Broader - Agriculture
  • Broad - Vegetables
  • Narrow - Corn
  • Narrower - Sclerophthora Macrospora

Concepts to add to narrow your search:

  • Time
  • Place
  • Population
  • Viewpoint

For example: Say your topic is this: Dust Bowl. However, when you search, you get too many search results. You need to narrow your search.

You don't need to use all of the concepts at once. Here's an example if you were to use all of the above concepts to narrow your search:

  • Time = 1930's
  • Place = great plains
  • Population = farmers
  • Viewpoint = economic

Then your topic would be:

The economic impact of the great dust storms of the 1930’s on the farmers of the great plains.

Monday March 2, 2009