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           Truncation 
             Truncation is 
              like a wildcard. Added to the stem of a word, it will find that 
              stem plus anything that comes after it. The symbol used to truncate 
              a word depends upon the index, database, or Web search engine you 
              are using. 
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          | environ* | 
          
			will 
            return records on environment, environments, environmental.  
            * is used as the truncation symbol in the Library Catalog, EBSCOhost and ProQuest 
			databases. | 
         
         
          | acqui! | 
          will return 
			records on acquistions, acquisitioning, acquires and acquiring.  
			! is used as the truncation symbol in Lexis-Nexis Academic. | 
         
         
          | wom?n | 
          will return 
			records on woman and women.  In most databases, the ? symbol is 
			used to handle variant spellings within words.   | 
         
       
      
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