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POPC 1600: Introduction to Popular Culture: Why can't I find anything?

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Combine keywords for efficient searching

Thus, we recommend that you:

  • carefully select the key concepts from your research question and combine those as keywords to search in a database
  • use the worksheet labeled 'generating and combining keywords' below to brainstorm search terms