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• Begin by going to the "Advanced Search" page of a search engine and read the directions.

• If you are looking for a name (either of an individual, of a company, or of a chemical compound), or if you are searching for words that appear next to each other, do a "phrase" search by surrounding the words that you are looking for with double quotation marks:

"agricultural engineering"

• If your search engine allows truncation or "wild card" searching, you can automatically search for different versions of the word you are looking for by using an asterisk(*):

  agricultur*

  will find agriculture, agricultural, as well as agriculturalist or agriculturalists

• If your search engine does not allow truncation, put the word OR (spelled in upper case, capital letters) between different versions of the word that you are searching for:

agriculture OR agricultural

• Phrase searching and truncation can be combined:

  "agricultural engineer*"

  will find both "agricultural engineers" and "agricultural engineering"

• Put the word AND (in upper case, capital letters) between all the words or phrases that you want to combine:

  "agricultural engineer*" AND "pest control"

• Read the "Help" or "Tips" page(s) for the search engine you are using.

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