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Class Handouts
ENGL 1302 Fall 2010
Activities:
Fast Search Strategies:
Save yourself lots of time and have an easier, quicker, and more productive search by using these search strategies.
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3 B's - Brainstorm, Browse, Boolean (AND, OR, NOT)
- Field searching - Subject, Author, Title
- Quotation marks for exact phrase
- Truncation - root + variants (*)
- Database Limiters: date, publication type, type, peer-reviewed, etc.
Relatively Painless Activity
NLC Library Activity: Use it or lose it? Evaluating a web site
Look at the two websites linked below. Use the questions in the Word document below to evaluate these two web sites. Decide if they are authoritative sources of information and if they would be used for a research paper.
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