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To find books on your topic, search the Library Catalog or an ebook database, such as Ebook Central.

Try a search for worldview, worldview beliefs, or worldview philosophy.

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✓ Use descriptive terms from your thesis statement.
✓ Use subject specific databases relevant to your topic.
✓ Consider alternative terms that identify your key conceptsor the type of information you are seeking.
✓ If available, set date restrictions for your results.
✓ Develop variant search queries.

Examples:

“military chaplain” and issue
military and chaplain and issue*
military and chaplain and Christian
Christian and chaplain and ethic*

An ethical dilemma may be identified or described as a work controversy, debate, argument, issue, etc. Therefore, in addition to searching with the keyword "ethical," use a variety of other relevant terms in your search expression (e.g., social work AND professional values).

Try a title or subject search for a related subject and ethics: business ethics, Christian ethics, communication ethics, counseling ethics, journalism ethics, nursing ethics, political ethics, or other subject area.

Narrow the results by adding more search terms (e.g., dilemma topic(s), issue concept(s), controversy).

The questions may help guide your search strategies to find articles on an ethical dilemma in a career or peer-reviewed articles on a specific worldview.

• What is the discipline or subject?
  Use the Database List to choose an appropriate subject database or start with a multidisciplinary database like Academic Search Complete.
• What is the topic, subject or profession?
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  Examples:
  • topic:
    “fantasy literature”
    Narnia and literature and (valu* or purpose)
    fantasy and child* and purpose
  • Subject or discipline:
    cloning
    chemistry (chemical engineer*)
    biology
  • Profession:
    sports journalism
    sport and journal*
• What are the influences or perspectives?
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  ideology belief perspective presupposition principle* veiw viewpoint influenc* (-e, -es, -ial, -ed) effect* (-s, -ive, -ual, -ed) motivation dilemma concern issues argument* controvers* (-y, -ies, -ial) pros and cons