CNX 289: What Is the Point of Art? - Spr.2018

Identify the key words that describe your topic and use them to search the library catalog and databases.  Make a list of synonyms and search with those, too. Enclose words in "quotation marks" when you want multiple words to express one idea or concept. 

Examples:

aesthetics and education

"weimar classicism" and schiller

Use the words AND, OR, and NOT--called boolean operators--between your keywords to broaden or narrow your search. 

Example:

schiller and (plays or poems)

If you shorten, or truncate, a word and then use an asterisk to "stand-in" for its different endings, your search results will include all forms of the word.

Example:

A key word search for drama* will look for drama, dramatist, dramatists, dramatic--

drama* and "german romanticism"