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Wellesley College Research Guides

EDUC 213: Social and Emotional Learning and Development

2. Searching for Peer Reviewed Articles

Use ERIC to generate key terms in the whiteboard and to search for an article.

Using ERIC's Thesaurus

Open the database and click on the thesaurus link at the top of the page.

 

This is a thesaurus of educational terms that will help you build a better search.  It is great at helping you brainstorm synonyms to try, think of narrower topics, and see broader themes in your topic.

Put a term in the thesaurus search box, click browse, and choose a term in the results below.



The resulting page will often give you a definition of the term, include broader, related, and/or narrower terms, and show you terms that may no longer be in use but be synonyms.

 

Click a linked term to "explode" it and see terms related to it, or write some down to try in your search!