1. How to… Research Like An Expert! Day 3

2. Today’s Goals By the end of the period, I will: understand Boolean search operators have created a successful search string, using my key terms have found at least one journal article from InfoTrac for my review of literature Ticket out the door!

3. It’s all about process… the Inquiry Process! Focus Select a topic of interest and ask real questions. 1 Explore Find the resources you need…and keep track of where you found it! 2 Analyze Interpret and evaluate the information you find. 3 Communicate Report what you find. Give credit where credit is due. 4

4. Focus Select a topic of interest and ask real questions. 1 What do I already know about my topic? How do I know this? What do I need to verify? What new information do I need to find? What do I think I might discover? What interests me? What am I curious about? Explore Find the resources you need… and keep track of where you found them! 2 What kind of resources will help me? Have I consulted a variety of sources? Who is responsible for the information? REFLECT: What other information do I still need? Did I record all the relevant information and where I found it? Analyze Interpret and evaluate the information you find. 3

5. Exploring…online research databases full-text articles, from a variety of sources academic journals, books, magazines, etc. full access from home! access from your Assignments page Explore Find the resources you need…and keep track of where you found it! 2

6. Power Searching… Cross-searching search multiple databases at once Click on “Continue” button above the list of databases First determine the “subject” the database uses to describe your topic choose Subject Guide search

7. Subject Guide searching… How many results do you get? Too many?  Subdivisions narrow your results by providing sub-categories of each subject Too few?  Related Subjects broaden your results by providing other subject terms related to your topic Example topic: How children in a family get along…

8. How to… Use BOOLEAN Search Operators

9. Boolean Operators AND OR NOT exact phrases truncation

10. AND Must contain BOTH terms e.g. dating AND teens datingteens Only the articles with BOTH terms will appear in your results list

11. OR Must contain EITHER term use for synonyms or spelling variations e.g. teens OR youth; color OR colour teensyouth ALL of the articles would appear in your results list.

12. NOT Must contain one term but NOT the other sometimes AND NOT e.g. dating NOT violence datingviolence Only those “dating” articles that do not contain “violence” will appear in your results list.

13. Exact Phrases use quotation marks “ ” or parentheses ( ) to search for an exact phrase e.g. “Prime Minister”

14. Truncation Searches for multiple forms of a word either ? or * e.g. Canad* will retrieve… Canada Canada’s Canadian Canadians

15. Search strings Combine Boolean operators for more powerful searches fewer, but more accurate results e.g. you're looking for information on teen dating habits, but not about date rape/violence (teen* OR youth) AND (dating OR relationships) NOT (rape OR violen*)

16. teen* OR youth dating OR relationships rape OR violen* Only these articles will appear in your results list (teen* OR youth) AND (dating OR relationships) NOT (rape OR violen*)

17. Keywords for Searching Let’s try some examples… Database “articles” Sweets Chocolate Bar Bubbles Sweets Chocolate Bar Wafer Sweets Chocolate Bar Wafer Coffee Sweets Chocolate Candy-coated Sweets Berry Chewy Sweets Chocolate Sweets Bar Chewy Sweets Wafer Vanilla

18. Using Boolean in the databases… Go to the Advanced Search tab There are 3 main types of searches: Subject – searches a specified list of descriptive terms used to categorize articles (find these terms with your “subject guide search” Keyword – searches title and description of articles (the citation and/or abstract) Full text – searches full text of the articles Choose the appropriate Boolean search operator Each search box represents a single idea (i.e. you can type Boolean terms in yourself – e.g. teen* OR youth) Example: teens’ self esteem

19. Focus Select a topic of interest and ask real questions. 1 What do I already know about my topic? How do I know this? What do I need to verify? What new information do I need to find? What do I think I might discover? What interests me? What am I curious about? Explore Find the resources you need… and keep track of where you found them! 2 What kind of resources will help me? Have I consulted a variety of sources? Who is responsible for the information? REFLECT: What other information do I still need? Did I record all the relevant information and where I found it? Analyze Interpret and evaluate the information you find. 3

20. Today’s tasks… Continue brainstorming a list of key terms on your “Explore” page Using InfoTrac, find at least one Subject Heading (& subdivision) for your topic Record on your ticket out the door Create a Boolean Search, using the Advanced Search tab Record on your ticket out the door As you go, save any “good” articles you find Hand in your ticket out the door!

21. Questions…?