USING BOOLEAN OPERATORS TO FORM QUERIES

Defining your Search Statement

Let's take a look at the search query again.
What are the effects of the Holocaust on survivors and subsequent generations?
Look at the Search Strategy Workform.
Let's break down the query into concepts:

Effects of trauma

Holocaust

Survivors

What other terms could you use for the concepts you have defined?

effects OR psychological	AND	Holocaust OR genocide	AND	survivors

By breaking the search statement into concepts and looking for synonyms, the above table would determine the following search statement:

(effects OR psychological) AND (Holocaust OR genocide) AND (survivors).

You do not have to re-invent the wheel here. Try a thesaurus or a specialized thesaurus like Contemporary Thesaurus of Social Science Terms and Synonyms, which will help you find ideas and meaningful terms to help you with your search.

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