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Use SURF to find books

Example research topic: Nonverbal communication and autism spectrum disorder (ASD)

Keywords and synonyms: nonverbal communication, autism, adults, ASD, conversations, social cues, other keyword ideas

  1. Practice using our keywords using a broad-to-narrow keyword search strategy in the embedded search box below.
  2. Search: autism. This produces 134,789 results.
  3. Limit these results to Books. This leaves 2827 book results.
  4. Add the keyword, adults. Notice your results are fewer and more specific, yielding 575 book results.
  5. In a book's record, review Table of Contents, Location, Status, and Call Number Locator.
  6. Use the Citation Generator & Permalink tools on the right side of the screen.