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COMS 444: Political Rhetoric

Welcome and Introduction

Welcome to the COMS 444 libguide! The following Library and internet resources are geared to support the research needs of CSUN students studying political rhetoric and related issues. 

Using Keywords and Boolean Operators in Databases

Keywords can be combined with other keywords using the AND operator to narrow your topic.

  • ICE deportations AND demonstrations
  • immigrants AND civil rights

Keywords can be combined with synonyms using OR to broaden your search. 

  • demonstrations OR protests
  • legislation OR laws

Quotation marks can be used to search phrases.

  • "migrant rights"

Putting these terms in quotes means that the words will be searched as a phrase rather than each word searched separately.

Terms in quotes can be combined with Boolean operators.

  • demonstrations AND "migrant rights"

Search Strategies

Check out this video to learn how to manipulate your search to get the resources you need.

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