ENGL 102: Carver, K. (Spring 2025): Academic Search Complete

In databases such as Academic Search Complete and ProQuest, you can narrow your search and find quite specific articles. See the screen shots below with search examples for Academic Search Complete.

Here the student is interested in genetic discrimination generally, but is focusing special attention on discriminatory practices present in the workplace. So, this student typed in the main topic, using the key words 'genetic discrimination' and then used something called a Boolean operator called AND to narrow down the resulting articles to those that address discrimination in the 'workplace.'

Because your topic is genetics, it is important that you choose articles that are fairly recent. Check with your instructor on how far back you can go. You can change your date range by adjusting the date range slider bar, which appears when you are looking at a page of results. You can also choose the type of document you want to look at: journal article, magazine, or newspaper article.

Once you find an article that looks good, be sure to look at the subject terms that are listed. Looking at the article below, I see that 'genetic privacy' is a search term, and I can use that in another search to find more articles similar to this.

Once you click on the full text link to an article, you will be able to save the article to Google Drive, print it, email it, and get a machine-generated APA citation. Note that the machine-generated APA citation is not always completely correct, but it is a great place to start.