Instruction
Please copy the assignment into a WORD document, answer the questions, and then submit as an attachment.
1. (10 points) Based on the topic you selected in Module Two: Basic Searching, write your search hypothesis into a sentence or a phrase, underline the keywords or the key concepts.
Example (sentence): Parents’ divorce has negative impacts on a student’s grades
Example (phrase): green-house effect’s impacts on our climates
My topic is:
2. (20 points)
Write down two Boolean search strings (Boolean operators + keywords) that you may use for your search. You should avoid selecting long phrases. Instead, use nouns that represent related concepts for your keywords
An example of improper long phrase as keywords:
Our worsening pollution AND its impacts on climate
Correct Keywords: pollution AND climate
Search Strings
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2.
3. (5 points)
Controlled vocabulary helps match the natural language of users with that used to formally describe, organize, and categorize data in information resources such as journal articles and books.
____ True
____ False
4. (5 points)
Amy is gathering sources for her speech, she want to find newspaper articles, published in the last 5 years, that she can read immediately. Which of the following limiters should she use when search database? [Select all that apply]
____ Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals
____ Publication Date
____ Full Text
____ Publication Type
5. (5 points)
List two limiters which you would consider trying out when searching databases.