Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Unit 6 More on Search Strategies

I am continuing on last weeks post in which I got a little ahead of things and already completed portion two of this exercise for all three of my own search statements. In this week's post I am listing my five statements, whcih I chose from the provided list. they are as follows:

Will presidential election reform solve the issues with the Electoral College and the popular vote?

  • “presidential election” AND  reform  AND “ Electoral College” AND “ popular vote” 

Does television advertising by the pharmaceutical industry have an impact on prescription drug abuse?

  • television AND advertis* AND pharmaceutical AND  prescription AND abuse 

What breeds of dogs make good therapy pets?

  • breed*  AND  (dog* OR canine*) AND therapy

Is the current lack of sunspot activity affecting global warming?

  • “sunspot activity” AND “global warming
Is a vegetarian diet healthier than a meat-based diet?

  • vegetarian AND diet  AND health* AND mea

1 comment:

  1. Hi, Shane:

    Good work on constructing search statements. You might start with vegetarian* AND health* and see what your results look like. We'll be looking in databases this week and see how specific you need to be.

    Cheers,
    Andrea

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