Name: ____Anderw Hochreiter____
Assignment: Creating a search strategy
 Your topic in one sentence: _____The effects of PTSD on
soldiers.________________________________________________________________________
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 Keywords (at least three): ______Effects, PTSD, Soldiers
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Enter your keywords in the first row, use the columns to separate them.
Effect*
PTSD
Soldier*
Symptom*
“Post-traumatic
stress disorder”
Military
“Side effect*”
“Shell shock”
Veteran*
Under each keyword write down at least two alternative words (synonyms) or variations in spelling (i.e.
British spelling for words like behaviour).
 Do you have any phrases, words that need to stay together?
______________________________________________________________________________
Put quotation marks around them.
 Do you have any common trunks?
______________________________________________________________________________
Put an * at the end of the root.
Create three search strategies using the words from the chart and the Boolean operators; which are
parenthesis, AND, OR, and NOT.
____(Effect OR Symptom OR “Side Effect”) AND (PTSD OR “Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder” OR “Shell
Shock”) AND (Soldier* OR Military OR Veteran* OR Vet).