Friday, July 20, 2012

Unit 6: Boolean searching part 1

Good Afternoon: I gathered so much useful information from this unit.  Below is my assignment submittal Part 1.

Practice Topics:

  • Will presidential election reform solve the issues with the Electoral College and the popular vote?
  • “presidential election reform” and “electoral college” and “popular vot*”

  • Does television advertising by the pharmaceutical industry have an impact on prescription drug abuse?
  • “television advertis*” and “pharmaceutic* industry” and “prescription drug abuse”

  • What are the similarities between the Great Depression of the 1930s and the current economic problems?
  •  similar*  and “Great Depression” and “current econom*” and problems

  • Debate the pros and cons of fish farming
  •  pros  and  cons  and “fish farm*”

  • Has the U.S. trade and globalization policy hurt the middle class?
  • U.S. trad*” and “global* polic*” and “middle class”

1 comment:

  1. Hi, Carrie;

    You are developing an understanding of constructing a search statement. You identified the essential concepts and connected them. You are exploring truncation which is a valuable tool. However, you can't use truncation inside quotes as the quotes enclose the exact order of letters you want the database to find, does that make sense? I think it could be at the end of the phrase but not in the middle.

    Thank you for your efforts,
    Andrea

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