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WRITING A LONG ESSAY OR BEGINNING RESEARCH: IT SEARCHING FOR ITALIAN STUDENTS: 1

WRITING A LONG ESSAY OR BEGINNING RESEARCH: IT SEARCHING FOR ITALIAN STUDENTS: 1. Searching in Full-Text E-Journal Collections. In this Tutorial….

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WRITING A LONG ESSAY OR BEGINNING RESEARCH: IT SEARCHING FOR ITALIAN STUDENTS: 1

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  1. WRITING A LONG ESSAY OR BEGINNING RESEARCH: IT SEARCHING FOR ITALIAN STUDENTS: 1 • Searching in Full-Text E-Journal Collections

  2. In this Tutorial… • How to locate useful full-text collections of E-journals and vary or combine different levels of search while varying or combining different terms

  3. What to think of when you search… • Make a preliminary list of useful key terms with some variants equally relevant • Remember “Author” means the person who wrote the document, not a literary writer • Try out a combination of fields for most searches

  4. The name of a writer should initially go at Title field to ensure relevance Vary your terms by applying “truncation” ie search on the root of the word and add “*” This helps to search across languages

  5. Where you narrow your field(ie restrict to title level) broaden your terms (via truncation) where you can Put variant terms in brackets connected by OR so that all the variants remain keyed in to the other search-rows ie. (novel OR fiction, teatro OR scena)

  6. First open the ‘Resources’ page where you can find guidance to databases by subject

  7. Use this Tutorial for revision before you begin a search of your own… • Think about which fields your key terms would go best in • Don’t use too many terms – never type out an essay title as such • When using a narrower field (ie Title or Abstract) truncate your terms where you can • Anything you can’t follow in the Tutorial or need more advice? • Contact : peter.larkin@warwick.ac.uk

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