Description
Purpose
To practice the usage of Boolean operators while searching to retrieve more relevant results.
- Task
Review Lesson #5. Consult the “How do I find a scholarly paper” tutorial videos and this Boolean Operators and Search Modifiers handout.
- Post your revised research question.
Create a new post below and create a “search string” for your research question using Boolean Operators. Try incorporating AND, OR, and NOT, * and ().
Your final post will be a single search string. Below is an example.
Respond to two peers by suggesting a correction or a new possibility for their search string.
Example:
Research question:
How has social media affected bullying among high school students?
- Boolean Search:
“Social media” AND (bullying OR cyberbullying) AND (high school OR secondary education) NOT primary