WRIT 231: Writing the Wave: Women Writing the 21st Century Essay

I hope this guide will provide some useful starting places as you work on your research assignments. I'm available and happy to consult with you about any part of the research process, from finding and evaluating sources to understanding how to cite them. You can email me (kstorz@wellesley.edu) or make a Zoom appointment on my calendar: bit.ly/storzappt. We can also arrange a time for a text chat — whatever works for you!

Karen​ Storz, Research & Instruction Librarian

pisces wave art 1, photo by Pam Link, Flickr, Creative Commons License

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Use quotation marks " " to search words as a phrase. This will narrow your results.

"environmental justice"

Use AND to combine multiple concepts in your search. This will narrow your results.

"environmental justice" AND feminism

Use OR to find different ways your topic could be expressed. This will expand your results. Group these related terms in parentheses, so the database interprets them first. The following search will find results that have any one of the terms in the first set of parentheses along with any one of the terms in the second set.

("environmental justice" OR "environmental racism") AND (feminism OR intersectionality OR ecofeminism)

Use an asterisk * to find variant endings. This will expand your results.

("environmental justice" OR "environmental racism") AND (feminis* OR intersectional* OR ecofeminis*)