RWS 1302 Gallardo

RWS 1302

Information Session​

Maya Conde-Kalmijn, UTEP Librarian

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​Hello and welcome!

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Poll

On this Mr. Bubz scale, rate your current mood.

Research Question Builder

​What did we do last time?

We often start research with a broad subject and need to find a focus that is specific enough to be covered fully in our work

Narrow (or broaden) your Topic

Ask:

• Who

• What

• When

• Where

​Finding too much information?

Try to look at the bigger picture:

• Think of key concepts

• Generalize

• Use more keywords

• Some topics are too new

​Finding too little information?

​No results

Multiple Choice

Which research topic sounds like the best option? Not too broad or too narrow.

• William Shakespeare the English playwright.

• Hamlet, a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601.

• The role that revenge plays in the play Hamlet.

• The color shoes that the actor that plays Hamlet wears in the 1996 movie.

• Research question breakdown

• ​Advanced Searching protips

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​What are we doing today?

Review how to turn a research question into a word bank of keywords to perform a search.

Research Question Breakdown

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This is where the fun begins

Let's start your assignment, click on the button below

• Select keywords

• Boolean operators

• Truncation

• Filters

Advanced Searching

​Boolean Operators

Multiple Choice

How would I format my keywords with boolean operators if I was researching the following research question:

In what ways does owning a pet improve quality of life for older people?

• elderly AND pet AND quality of life

• elderly OR pet OR quality of life

• elderly AND pet OR quality of life

• elderly NOT pet NOT quality of life

Used to replace one or multiple characters to look for alternate spellings and variations.

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​UTEP Library's MinerQuest Catalog

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​Starting an Advanced Search

​This might be intimidating at first, but we are breaking it down.

• Save the word doc to your device, you can save it to the desktop

• ​Sign in to myUTEP

• Attach the assignment in an email to me at [e-mail]​

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