Part 1
5 Practice Search Statements
Question: Is a vegetarian diet healthier than a meat-based diet?
Search: vegetarian or meat-based
Question: How much more can a college graduate expect to earn over
someone with a high school diploma?
Search: "College Graduate earnings" and "high school diploma earnings"
Question: How much of current scientific breakthroughs were influenced by
science fiction?
Search: "Science fiction" and "scientific breakthroughs"
Question: Are big box stores like WalMart and Target good for the economy?
Search: Walmart and Target and economy
Question: Has the U.S. trade and globalization policy hurt the middle class?
Search: "US trade" and "middle class"
Part 2
My Own Topic
Question: What is the best way to protect our privacy online?
Search: laws and privacy and online
"Online privacy" and laws
"Internet privacy" and laws
Hi, Cassandra:
ReplyDeleteYou are developing an understanding of how to simplify and identify the key concepts of the questions to construct search statements. You need to consider synonyms and also be careful of putting quotes around terms, this directs the database to retrieve only those phrases, not variations which could also be helpful.
For your question, I would suggest (online OR internet) AND privacy AND protect* Also, pay attention to the subject headings and descriptors in your results and see if you need to modify or revise your search statement.
Cheers,
Andrea