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SOAN 285: Ethics of Civic Engagement

For Professor Adrienne Falcon - Spring 2017

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Strategies

Your strategy to contextualize your topic will necessarily vary, but some general paths to investigate might include:

For answers to general questions about research, see "Library FAQs" and for more help, email me to meet about your project.

Advanced Google Searching

Advanced Google searching can turn up a wealth of otherwise "hidden" documents.  Start regularly using just a few extra operators in Google and you'll never look back. 

Operator What It Does
~ (tilda) searches for synonyms
inurl:gov; inurl:org; inurl:edu searches only these domains
filetype:pdf; filetype:xls; filetype:ppt searches for only these types of documents
date..date (2008..2009) searches for documents relevant to those years
site:carleton.edu searches for documents only at Carleton's domain

Example:
~hunger "twin cities" ~suburban inurl:org filetype:pdf 2005..2009

A longer list of these.

Subject Guide

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Kristin Partlo
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