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Topic Guide - Lee Online Research

An overview of best practices for making the most out of your research project.

EBSCO Discovery Service Advanced Search

You can also search the library's other databases for information about your topic. 

Search EBSCO Discovery Service for Examples of Argumentative Essays

Search Strategy

If you want to search EBSCO Discovery Service for examples of argumentative essays, try this search strategy.

Go to the library's Ebsco Discovery Service Database.  Choose Advanced Search.

When accessing the library's databases, you may be asked to enter your username and password. This information is the same as the credentials you use to login to Moodle, Portico, and your Lee email. Please contact the library if you have any trouble logging in to any of the library's databases.

From the Ebsco Discovery Service, you can search through a large majority of the library's database.  Follow the directions below to find examples of argumentative essays. 

  1. Enter your broad topic into the first search box.  Examples include abortion, global warming, gun control, capital punishment, and immigration. 
    • Note:  If your first search doesn't have many results or you don't find what you are looking for, explore different words to represent your topic.  For example, in place of "global warming," you might try the term "climate change." 
  2. From the drop-down menu choose "Subject Terms."
  3. In the second search box, type in the word "Editorial."  This will help to limit your results to argumentative essays.
  4. Leave the second dropdown menu as "Select a Field" as this will allow EBSCO to look through the entire article for the term editorial. 
  5. Click search.