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

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

Using a broad-to-narrow keyword search strategy.

1. Search: autism = 134,789 results

2. Limit results to Books = 2827 results

3. add adults - notice your results are fewer and more specific = 575 results

• Could book #1 in our list be useful to me? Would it support a point I'm making? 
• Ebook search within: "nonverbal communication," or "social cues," or "conversations"

4. Under Availability, checkmark Limit to Physical Items. Find #9 in the results.

• Review Table of Contents, Location, Status, and Call Number Locator.

5. Citation Generator & Permalink

6. Select "Include Non-USMAI results" to see books that you can request outside of our collection.