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English Composition and Literature

Using keywords to search a database

Keywords are very important when it comes to doing research. The better the keywords or combination of keywords, the better your search results will be. 

Now that you have a more refined topic, identify some good keyword combination you can use to search a database:

Next type your keyword combination into a database and do a search:

Resources

While you will likely locate many resources for your projects electronically, please remember the JCC Library has many good print books and videos that can be used for your research.

The library offers about 40,000 print books and over 300,000 ebooks!  Use the following link to access them:

Books on Writing and Research

All of our reference books are located on the first floor of the library.