Week Five Assignment: The Words You Use

Week Five Assignment

Part One:

1.      Has anti-smoking advertising by the tobacco industry lead to decreased smoking among youth?

"decreased smoking"
"tobacco industry"
anti-smoking
youth

Anti-smoking AND (advertising OR “Tobacco industry”)


2.      How much more can a college graduate expect to earn over someone with a high school diploma?

"high school"
college
graduate*
earning*
diploma 

(“high school” OR college) AND graduate* AND earning*
  
Part Two:

Key word - Solar energy
Subject Term - renewable energy sources

Key word - Photovoltaics
Subject Term - photovoltaic power systems

Part Three:


Reflection- What part of this lesson did you find useful? How do you intend to use these skills for future searches? 

I think the most useful portion of this was to recognize that a lot of research can be done by simple putting together a logical operation to help scope in search results. This is compared to just typing in a question on google and getting thousands of unnecessary search results.

Comments

  1. Sue PhelpsSeptember 26, 2017 at 11:12 AM

    Ed,
    Glad to hear you appreciate controlled searching!! I think it will save you a lot of time and frustration. You did a good job using the Boolean operators correctly. Like many of us who are used to typing the whole question in the Google search box, you could probably make your search statements more simple. You don't have to include every concept, just a couple (sometimes only one) of the most important.

    I would like for you to say more in your reflections.

    Keep up the good work,
    Sue

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