Media, Information and Technoculture 1025F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Brainstorming, Controlled Vocabulary
21 Oct 2016
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Think about your topic: what do you already know, what additional information do you need, brainstorming; doing some researches; asking around. Identify important concepts: find the terms scholars use. E. g. media; film; television; racial stereotyping; racism: these keywords prepare you for research, search string (apply almost to every searching engine) Use operators (and or or) to combine keywords. and narrows the search while or broadens the results (i. e. use or for synonyms and and for distinct concepts) Put all synonyms (or related terms) in brackets. Enclose phrases in to ensure that the words are searched together. Include a wildcard symbol (*) to find variant endings (e. g. canad* -> canada; Includes links to e-books and articles in pdf format: not necessarily links you to journals but provides the links, uses controlled vocabulary. Library research guides: librarian recommended resources on every subject (specific courses as well, links to databases, online encyclopedia and more.
