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- Break your topic into its component elements:
- Using education to encourage healthy eating = education, "healthy eating"
- Sustainability in garden design = sustainability, "garden design"
- Combine those terms with an AND:
- education AND "healthy eating"
- sustainability AND "garden design"
- Think of alternative terms for your elements:
- Healthy eating, nutrition, diet
- Garden design, landscape architecture
- Combine those terms with an OR:
- "healthy eating" OR nutrition OR diet
- Use shortcuts:
- To search for two or more words together, enclose them in quotations marks: "healthy eating"
- To search for words beginning with a common stem, put an asterisk at the end of the stem: environment* will retrieve environment, environmentalism, environments.
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