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A course guide for students in ELCC 111, focusing on finding articles about brain development in children

This is a brief guide for ELCC 111, focusing on finding resources about child development, APA citation, and writing resources.

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Plan your search

  • Use Boolean Operators (AND, OR, NOT) to combine keywords.
  • Consider specific keywords to represent certain age groups. For example: newborn, preterm, infants, toddlers, preschoolers
  • Combine your keywords according to age groups. Example: brain development AND infants (as opposed to brain development and children)
  • Use nested searches for related keywords or synonyms:
    • brain development AND children
    • brain development AND (children OR infants)
    • brain development AND (children OR toddlers)
    • brain development AND (children OR preschoolers)
  • Explore Advanced Search on databases. Use the "Age Group" filter on databases such as APA PsychArticles (in Advanced Search)

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