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COMM 3100: Foundations of Media Industries: Finding Articles

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AND

Combine keywords with AND to narrow your search.
Muslim AND media

OR 

Combine keywords with OR to broaden your search. This works well for synonyms.
Muslim OR Islam

"phrase search" 

Put quotes around multi-word searches to find only documents that contain those words as a phrase.
"social media" 

* (wildcard)

Use a * with the stem of a word any word beginning with the letters you entered.
religio* searches for religion, religious, religiosity, etc.