Name: Daisy Fernandez

Apply the Boolean Search skills you learned in class to your topic to complete
this assignment. A valuable part of search is learning more about your topic.
This assignment will help you keep track of what you learn in your research
to make a more effective search.
1. Write out your question:
Hows LGBT being portrayed on television?
2. What are your three main concepts?
a. LGBT people
b. television
c. Shows
3. Find at least four subject terms that deal with your topic. Select ones
that will be good synonyms to use when searching.
a. LGBT students
b. Gay people in popular culture
c. LGBT people on television
d. Lesbians in motion pictures United States
4. Read the abstract (summary) of relevant articles and find at least
four synonyms or related termsadd them to your search statement.
a. Gay
b. Lesbian
c. Bisexual
d. Transgender

5. Your Best Search Statement should find relevant articles and

incorporate synonyms and truncation

LGBT or Gay or Homosexual or Lesbian or Bisexual or Transgender or Queer

Television or TV Shows
6. How many results from your most successful search statement:_1,170______