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BIOL 483: Senior Thesis

Returning Results

While you're familiar with how to search for material, when working on your thesis, you really want to hone in your skills and return a set amount of results --ideally around 50. This provides a workable number of sources without being too narrow. Using Boolean Modifiers (AND, OR, NOT) can help focus your results. Additionally, Boolean Operators ("quotation marks", (parenthesis), *asterisk). The following videos go into more depth.