Some search engines also allow you to use Proximity Operators to define the relationships between terms:

NEAR looks for sources in which the two terms appear in the same sentence or paragraph.

WITH looks for sources in which the two terms appear in the same part of the entry - ex. the title, the abstract, the list of keywords. lets you search for sources that contain all of your keywords (Eg. "Human AND Genome AND Ethics" finds entries that contain all three of those words)

ADJ or W resembles WITH, but lets you specify how close the terms must be. For example "Genome W/2 Ethics" means that "genome" and "ethics" must be within 2 words of each other.

Not all search engines accept all operators, so be sure to check before you create your search string. Some search engines make these operators available through an Advanced Search interface.

Exercise 2. Apply wildcard symbols, truncation symbols, Boolean operators, and proximity operators (as appropriate) using your search terms from Exercise 1.

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