Phrase Searching

A phrase is a group of two or more words used as a unit. Examples:

• "market research"
• "point-of-sale advertising"
• "supply and demand"

Putting your terms in quotation marks, narrows your search to the catalog or database records that include that exact phrase, for instance: "women consumers." (The two words must be found next to each other.) In the CSN Library Catalog and at Google, if you search without the quote marks you get all the records with the terms "women" AND "consumers" (appearing anywhere in the library catalog or web index records).

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