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AND |
Combine keywords with AND to narrow your search. Example: adolescents AND depression |
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OR |
Combine keywords with OR to broaden your search. This works well for synonyms. Example: adolescents OR teenagers |
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“phrase search” |
Put quotes around multiword searches to find only documents that contain those words as a phrase. Example: “youth ministry” |
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truncation (*) |
Use a * with the stem of a word to search for all forms of that word. Example: |
ATLA Religion Database:
While searching for children's/youth ministry in the database will bring up results, the actual subject heading for articles in this area is "church work with youth." Use this in a subject search to pull up the best and most complete list of results!
Use the following criteria to decide if a publication is popular or scholarly.
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Scholarly Articles |
Popular Articles |
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| Author | Expert in the field, credentials and affilated university listed | Journalist, freelance writer or staff writers |
| Length of article | Longer more detailed content | Shorter articles giving a brief overview |
| Intended audience | Researchers, experts in the field | General Public |
| Layout | Includes an abstract, footnotes, list of citations. | Does not follow a standard format, often a simple title |
| Images | Charts, graphs, tables of data | Colorful, eye catching photos |
| Vocabulary | Specialized terminology, need extensive knowlege of discipline to understand text | Written at the level to be understood by the general public |
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