Quiz 2 Flashcards
Research in dissertations or theses take how many years to be published
1-2 years
Theses
Written by MA students for partial fulfillment of their degree and include a small study or extensive literature review
Dissertations
Original research and written by doctoral students in partial fulfillment of their degree with extensive bibliography
Research in reports take how many years to be published by different organizations
1-2years
Government documents:
Any publication issued under the authority of the government or one of its agencies, municipal, provincial or federal
Research in journal take how many years to be published
2 years
Scholarly journals
Provide most recent scholarship in area
Critical to consult when conducting research on given topic
Published less frequently (quarterly)
Magazines take how many years to be published
3 years
Magazines
Topics are summarized for a general audience, not appropriate for research
Scholarly books take how many years to be published
3 years or more
Scholarly books
Good source of information depending on how important currency of information is for topic
Periodicals
Broad term for journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and annual reports
5 criteria’s to evaluate published materials
Purpose, authority, scope, audience, format
Primary sources
Original words of the writer
Secondary sources
Writings about the primary sources
Three formats of note taking
summarizing, paraphrasing, quoting
Three reasons to use quotations
Wording in passage is too precise
Person quoted is highly respected
Will boost your case
Definition of Literature Search
The process of seeking out the material used to support your claims
Boolean operators
Allow to logically arrange your key words into a statement (AND, OR, NOT)
Boolean Operators: AND
Used between keywords that expresses different concepts
It decreases the number of items retrieved
Boolean Operators: OR
Used between synonyms or related terms when you want to retrieve either key word
Increases number of items retrieved
Boolean Operators: NOT
Used to eliminate unwanted concepts from search results
Decreases the number of items retrieved, not same extent as AND
Nesting
Enclose key words that have been ORed in parentheses
Phrase searching
Use quotes around phrases
Truncation
Use instead of ORing a keyword with multiple endings
Limiting fields
Search filters contain information that is common to many records with database
Focused search
Instructs the system to look for keywords within a specific field
