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Creating Search Strategies - Boolean and Truncation Exercise

Creating Search Strategies - Boolean and Truncation Exercise. Library 150 Week 3 in class exercise. Finding Key Words. Summarize the research topic in the form of a question How does alcohol effect college students? Highlight key words How does alcohol effect college students ?.

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Creating Search Strategies - Boolean and Truncation Exercise

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  1. Creating Search Strategies -Boolean and Truncation Exercise Library 150 Week 3 in class exercise

  2. Finding Key Words • Summarize the research topic in the form of a question • How does alcohol effect college students? • Highlight key words • How does alcohol effect collegestudents?

  3. Find similar & opposite words • Similar words (synonyms) • alcohol -- alcoholism, beer, wine, booze • college -- university, higher education • student -- students, pupils • Opposite words (antonyms) • college -- high school

  4. o r alcohol beer alcohol beer Boolean Logic – OR • Join similar words with OR and parenthesis () • Example: (alcohol or beer) • either term appears in articles • broadens search, increases number of results alcohol = 26,807 beer = 6,336 alcohol or beer = 32,626

  5. alcohol students Boolean Logic – AND • Join major concepts with AND • Example alcohol and students • both terms appear in articles • narrows search, decreases number of results alcohol = 26,807 a n d students = 134,037 alcohol and students = 1,418

  6. n o t high school students students Boolean Logic – NOT • Join opposite concepts with NOT • Example students not "high school" • excludes articles with concept • narrows search, decreases number of results students = 134,037 high school = 27,349 students not "high school" = 121,576

  7. beer results high school students alcohol Boolean Logic • Example -- (alcohol or beer) and students not "high school" (alcohol or beer) and students not "high school" = 1,220

  8. Truncation • Finds all forms of word - replace end of word with *, + , ! … (check for symbol) • colleg* • college • colleges • college’s • colleges’ • collegian • collegial • collegiate • …

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