Thursday, September 10, 2009

Research Journal Assignment #4

RJA #4a- Generating Keywords
Why should children attend preschool?
FOrms (children)- child
FOrms (preschool)- school
RElated terms (children)- kid(s), youth, toddler(s)
RElated terms (preschool)- daycare, kindergarten,
Synonymous Terms- (preschool) prep school, academy, nursery school, pre kindergarten, playschool, early childhood education, toddler school, child care school
Ladder Of Genaralization- education, child education, early childhood education, school, primary school, kindergarten, pre kindergarten (preschool)

RJA #4b- Writing Search Strings
preschool NOT daycare
Preschool AND homeschool
+preschool
+education
+advantages
*school
children NEAR preschool
children NEAR attend NEAR preschool

RJA #4c- Checking Research Questions
Sofia
Melissa

7 comments:

  1. Hi Alexandria, I think your search string is right on. It seems like you will be able to find plenty of information on your topic.

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  2. You have to add more to your search strings or just put them together. Like +preschool+education+homeschool or something like that. You have to boolean way down though.

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  3. Search string worked perfectly! -Chris

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  4. I think another great search string you could use is preschool OR homeschool.

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  5. Looks good. Maybe you could add something about the word "benefit". :) Good luck!

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  6. your search strings seem spot on. good luck with the research!

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  7. Hey good work with all of your search strings...all seem to return alot of good information that is helping you hopefully. I do agree with Liani though, try and piece together more search strings to narrow down your search. Best of luck to you!!! -Nick

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