Instructions
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.
How to filter your results
To get academic articles, select Scholarly & Peer Reviewed (top left)
For other types, scroll down (left side) to Resource type.
Select one (or more) of these:
- Magazine article
- Topic overview
- Newspaper article
These filters will continue until you undo them. Click Clear All (top left)