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Module 6:
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©2019 by Chris Niemeyer, University of Missouri-St. Louis.
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Module 6:
Some Practice Exercises |
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©2019 by Chris Niemeyer, University of Missouri-St. Louis.
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You are about to see questions that reference librarians might get from people who need help with their research.
You will need to CLICK on words in the questions to form a good keyword search. Screen2 |
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Click on the best search keywords in the statement below:
banking
reformed
"How can
banking
get
reformed"?
bank* and reform* Yes! Correct! Screen3 |
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Click on the best search keywords in the statement below:
neurology
dreaming
"I need to find information about the
neurology
of
dreaming".
neurolog* and dream* Yes! Correct! Screen4 |
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Click on the best search keywords in the statement below:
small business
management
managers
motivate
"I need to learn things about
small business
management,
and how
managers
can
motivate
their employees."
small business* manag* motivat* Yes! Correct! Screen5 |
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Click on the best search keywords in the statement below:
recycling
plastic
profitable
recycling
plastic
profits
plastics
recycling
"I need to know about the
recycling
of
plastic
products. Especially, like, uhmmm ... how
profitable
recycling
plastic
products can be. Stuff like that. You know, how a business can make
profits
with
plastics
recycling,
and things like that."
recycl* plastic* profit* Yes! Correct! Screen6 |
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Click on the best search keywords in the statement below: Screen7
advertising
advertisements
eating disorders
"I need as much information as possible about women or men and the
advertising
profession. About how they are being imipacted by the profession because of the way the
advertisements
are made so that people get weirded-out about their bodies and start having all kinds of
eating disorders."
advertis* eating disorder* Yes! Correct! |
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Very well done!
All of the practice exercises used keyword truncation (*). But remember, it is not always necessary or even desirable to use truncation. Screen8 |
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Also, a search like below, where all of the terms come ready-supplied with AND (as usually happens with "advanced search" screens)...
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... could also have been written like what you see below, for those times when you only have one search line to work with.
small business* and manag* and motiv*
Of course, you will have to add the ANDs yourself. Module finished! Screen10 |
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