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FYS 100 - The Truth of Suffering (Forte - Fall 2014)
"The Basics"
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FYS 100 - The Truth of Suffering (Forte - Fall 2014): "The Basics"
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"The Basics"
Background Research
Finding Books
Finding Journal Articles
Locating Your Materials
Evaluating Your Materials
Writing the Paper
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Researh Strategy Process
Create research question
Select the concepts that should be searched
Pick the keywords for the concepts ; truncate if necsssary
Use Boolean operators and nesting strategies to combine them
Search Basics
Choosing a Database
Video (3:39 min)
Search Techniques - Part 1
Exercise to understand basic search techniques: Choosing keywords | Boolean logic | Nesting
Search Techniques - Part 2
Exercise to review advanced search techniques - Full-Text Searching | Fielded Searching | Subject Searching and Thesaurus | Truncation/Wildcard | Limiting Your Search
Refining Search Results
Video (3:46 min)
Words of Wisdom
"Failure to prepare is preparing to fail."
-- Benjamin Franklin
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