Research basics for Dr. Bachman's English C1001 Class. This video covers topics, resources, brainstorming, and Boolean operators and gets you ready for searching the library databases.
Boolean operators help you with searching in our database. I have 3 of them below with examples. Remember to keep your search terms simple to just the keywords that relate to the subject of your research and you should be able to find good articles for your assignment.
Quotation Marks: To search multiple worded search terms together.
"Monterey Peninsula College"
"Camera Lucida"
"Male Gaze"
AND: To tell the database that these search terms must appear in your results and to help you narrow your search.
Barthes AND "Camera Lucida"
"Laura Mulvey" AND "Male Gaze"
"John Berger" AND art
OR: When you want to search for either term and help expand your search.
("J.M.W. Turner" OR "John Martin") and "landscape painting"
"Feminist Theory" OR Feminism
"Male Gaze" AND (voyeurism OR scopophilia)