The Boolean operator AND expresses the narrowing relationship when it is used in a search statement with primary and secondary concept terms. It does this by telling the searching software to retrieve only those records which contain both of the specified terms.
Thesis statement:
Example of a Boolean AND operator used in a search statement
colonists AND American
The syntax of this search statement narrows the scope of your search to only those items which contain both colonists and American in any order.
The Boolean logical operator AND is a very effective way to reduce the number of items you retrieve to those most likely to be relevant to your topic.
