The American Dream: MegaSearch: Advanced

This approach puts you in charge of which keywords appear in your results. It does not use AI. You can combine 2-3 topics. When you revise a search, always click Advanced Search first.

1. Open MegaSearch

2. Click Advanced Search (right side of the search box).

3. Enter your main topic in the top box. Search.

• If your topic has multiple words, put them in "quotation marks":
  • "american dream"

4. Click Advanced Search again.

• Enter a focus topic in the next box. 
  • Example: consumerism
• Search.

5. Now you are ready to review the results!

• Read the title.
• Click  and read the Abstract
• Click to see the full text

6. Explore the article. And search the full text for the good parts.

• Press Ctrl+F         For Mac users, Command+F 
• A little search box appears.
• Enter a word or phrase.
• It automatically finds this on your page.
• Explore!

7. Email yourself a link to the full text and an MLA citation.

• Return to MegaSearch.
• (Upper right) click the envelope icon:     
• Enter your email
• Choose a Citation Format: Click, scroll down, and select MLA.
• Leave yourself a note. Why did this article catch your eye? This will help you later!
• [Battle the Captcha Robot] and Send.
• What does the email give you?
  • An MLA citation to copy and paste
  • The note you left yourself
  • A LINK to the full text article.