Library Guides: EN 1250: Seminar on Academic Writing (Rosenthal): Find Articles

Search Terms

Try pairing search terms related to your future career or profession with a climate change concept. See the example search in the database Academic Search Complete below.

Examples of climate change-related concepts:

climate change OR global warming
drought*
flood*
wildfire*
severe storm*
heat wave* OR extreme heat
global temperature
disasters
greenhouse gases

Adding an asterisk (*) to the end of a word "tells" the database/search engine to find all variations of that word.

Example Search

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