Monday, 8 July 2019

Research 8/7

Library database searches.  Using the advanced search to narrow down articles,  make several keywords to search with.  If some words are not effective,  use a thesaurus to find alternative key terms for the desired results and create a weird cloud.  For Boolean searches use the words and, or, or not. And includes both search terms to narrow the results, Or uses both terms to expand the results, and Not can be used to refine the results,  but may exclude useful items so use carefully.  Use quotes to search for phrase as a whole,  use brackets to search for one keyword,  and one of two alternate options (brackets gets searched first think BEDMAS) ie. Men AND (single OR married). These terms work with YouTube and Google searches as well. Make sure to only use legitimate sites for sources, .edu, .gov, .org etc. Be wary of .com. Use the first 3 page results, as beyond that the quality drops dramatically. 

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