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UCOLL 300 - Unit III - Methods
For the Unit II discussion forum, you will report on how you can incorporate BOTH subject-specific or academic vocabulary AND advanced search features as you searched the subject databases on your focused UColl 300 topic. The discussion forum exercise will also prepare you for completing the Unit II written-assignment, which has a very similar requirement.
You may do this by using any combination of the methods described on the Helps and Tips or Research Vocabulary pages of this tutorial.
In other words, you will need to demonstrate use of a database thesaurus or one of these types of searches:
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Database |
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Proximity Search |
Truncation |
Phrase Searching |
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Academic Search Complete |
"professional sports" AND betting
(betting OR gambling ) AND sports |
"professional basketball" N5 scandal* |
olymp* AND village AND secur* |
"CSI effect" |
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WSU WorldCat |
"professional sports" AND betting
(betting OR gambling ) AND sports |
Not available |
olymp* AND village AND secur* |
“CSI effect” |