Starting with the magazine Psychology Today on the "Magazines in the Middle" tab of this guide, the four citations in the result list below were obtained with this very simple search strategy:
Reading these results closely, first the actual Subjects assigned to them as main ideas or concepts and then other words in the titles, abstracts, or other parts of the record (note red underlines), allows you to change and improve your search strategy. Keywords gleaned from the article abstracts [political humor, satire, prank] could be added as a third concept to improve the original search strategy.
Use the Subject Terms feature in Academic Search Complete as an additional strategy to collect improved search terminology.
