PUENTE ENGL: Essay #3: Research, Think, then Write!: Search Terms

• Virgin de Guadalupe
• Virgen de Guadalupe
• Virgin Mary
• Tonantzin
• "La Morenita"

• Malinche
• Malinalli
• Marina
• Malintzin
• traitor
• "La Chingada" (see Octavio Paz)

• "La llorona" OR Malinche
• "weeping woman"

• Macho
• Machista
• "Mexican Macho"
• Hyper-masculine
• Patriarchy

Searching Library Databases

REMEMBER:

• • Sometimes less is more you will often have more success when you search if you look for just a few key concepts or key ideas
  • AVOID a complete sentence as your key concepts
  • Use quotes “” to keep all the words in a phrase together (“mexican archetypes”)

Q. What keywords & concepts phrases would you “glue” together to build your search statement?

Examples:

• icons
• exemplars
• myth, mythical
• stereotypes

• brave woman/women
• fierce woman/women
• Chicanas
• Revolucionarias
• chingonas
• rebels
• "border crossers"