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Quizzes: Developing a search strategy
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Questions are presented first with answers and feedback in the appendix.
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Activity 1: Identifying the concepts
Identifying the concepts
What are the key concepts in the following essay question?
Discuss how social media is affecting the recruitment practices of employers.
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Quiz 1: Synonyms and related terms – matching related terms
The three key terms in the essay question may not be enough to produce a
successful search result. Using synonyms or related terms (alternative words
and phrases) will help to widen the search.
Match the alternative terms with the terms in the essay topic
staff selection
a) social media
businesses
hiring
b) employers
enterprises
recruiting
c) recruitment
Facebook
social networking sites
online social networks
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Quiz 2: Broadening your search
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There are a number of ways you might increase the number of relevant
results if you didn’t get enough in your first search.
Based on what has been covered in this module, select all the options that
would broaden your results
A. Check that you are searching a database relevant to the topic
B. Check for spelling mistakes or other errors in entering the search terms
C. Add a term (using AND)
D. Add a synonyms or alternative term with OR
E. Make sure you are using the Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT)
correctly
F. Use truncation and find variations of your terms
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Quiz 3: Focusing your search
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If your search results in too many records, you will need to focus or narrow
the search to achieve a smaller and more relevant set of results.
Based on what has been covered in this module select all the options that
would narrow the results.
A. Limit your search by date, document type or language
B. Remove a synonym (or alternative term)
C. Add another concept or key term using AND
D. Use phrase searching where relevant
E. Search using more specific terms
F. Use NOT to eliminate an aspect or the topic you are not interested in
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Appendix
Activity 1: Identifying the concepts
Key terms are social media, recruitment and employers
Terms which are not key terms are discuss, affecting, practices.
Quiz 1: Synonyms and related terms – matching related terms
Feedback: correctly matched terms.
a) Social Media - Facebook is a social media service
- social networking sites is an alternative phrase
- online social networks is an alternative phrase
b) Employers
- is related to enterprises and also to businesses
c) Recruitment - is closely related to “staff selection”,
recruiting and hiring.
For each of the three key terms there may also be other related terms which
have not been listed here.
Quiz 2: Broadening your search
A, B, D E and F are correct – any one of these options would help to improve
the number of relevant results from your search.
C. is incorrect – it will narrow (or focus) your search
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Quiz 3: Focusing your search
All the options are Correct
Any of these options would help to reduce and focus the number of relevant
results from your search, but some will do so more effectively than others.
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