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EN 102-025 Nic Helms, Sara Whitver In-Person

Option 4: Advanced Search Strategies

This lesson corresponds with The Norton Field Guide to Writing 4th Edition, P445-468 Finding Sources

In this session, students will be taught to execute advanced searches in selected databases and resources. Databases will be selected when the session is scheduled, and advanced options will be chosen according to the needs of the class topic and assignment.

This class will cover:

  • how to use advanced search options for specific resources such as LexisNexis Academic, the Library’s Catalog, JSTOR.
  • how to find a specific publication using a Journal Title Search
  • how to find a known item such as an article that is referenced in an index record or a  works cited page
  • how to use controlled vocabulary for targeted, field-specific searching

Learning outcomes:

  1. Students will use controlled vocabulary and field-specific search options and limiters in order to retrieve topically relevant sources
  2. Students will combine search terms with boolean operators in order to effectively interpret their research question into an effective search query.
Date:
Thursday, November 2, 2017
Time:
11:00am - 12:15pm
Time Zone:
Central Time - US & Canada (change)
Location:
Gorgas 104
Event Type :
EN 102
Categories:
  Humanities Instruction  

Session Organizer

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Sara Whitver

Sara Maurice Whitver is the Digital Humanities Librarian at The University of Alabama Libraries and liaison librarian for the Departments of English and Philosophy.  She joined the faculty at University of Alabama Libraries in 2012. Her academic background is in Digital Rhetoric and her research examines the ways in which people engage in posthuman worldbuilding and create space for their community on social media platforms. She is interested in reducing the barriers to digital humanities by exploring a combination of out of the box and minimal computing workflows that allow scholars to produce quality projects without having to become experts in computer programming.  She leads the Alabama Digital Humanities Center at the University of Alabama Libraries.

 

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