Asking the Right Questions A Guide to Critical Thinking M. Neil Browne / Stuart M. Keeley Can you find the book?

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Asking the Right Questions A Guide to Critical Thinking M. Neil Browne / Stuart M. Keeley Can you find the book?

WHERE WHAT HOW GO Download manager

Xu jingbo DOCUMENT DELIVERY INTERLIBRARY LOAN

FulltextAbstractThesisE-book EBSCO JSTOR SAGE WILEY PROQUEST SCOPUSPQDDEBOOK

AND OR NOT Boolean operators ? * Wildcard ( ) “ ” ParenthesesQuotation Marks

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Are you familiar with the knowledge of this professional field? What contents are you planning to concern with your research / dissertation? You describe these using sentences, words or phrases? Make questions with your contents What’s the first question? What’s the core question? What are the core words? What relevant concepts or professional concepts do your questions refer to? Which professional field or subject category do these concepts belong to?

Educational Leadership The Journal of Research on Leadership Education … and Leadership in Education Education Leaders Knowledge + GOOGLE Education leadership

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Build your own Knowledge NET

search terms Field codes keywords search box Scopus SD

Boolean Operators Combine search terms Narrow a search result Broadens a search result AND NOT OR Contains all of the terms Contains any of the terms Excludes or eliminate a term from a seach result

( Parentheses ) Groups terms together Words that you enclose in parentheses are searched FIRST ! 1 (A AND B) OR (C AND D) 2 A AND (B OR C) AND D 3 (A AND (B OR C)) AND D Q:

“Double quotation marks” Search for the exact phrase {Braces} Stop words / Punctuation / \ : - Be ignored for of she it an …

Find variations Replace the unknown part Wildcard Truncation ? * Replace a single unknown character Find all forms of a word Replace zero to nine unknown characters Asterisk Question Mark transplant, transplants, transplanting, transplantation, transplantable *splant* Transplant* Tra*lant Q: at the beginning within a word

Proximity operators Limit free-text searching Within a certain distance PRE/n "precedes by" W/n "within" In the order in which the terms entered Regradless of the order To find terms in the same phrase, use 3, 4, or 5. To find terms in the same sentence, use 15. To find terms in the same paragraph, use 50. To find adjacent terms, use 0.

Proximity operators Do not mix operator types or include different values for "n" within the same expression bay PRE/6 ship* PRE/0 channel bay W/6 ship* PRE/6 channel bay PRE/6 ship* PRE/6 channel (b?y W/6 ship*) AND (ship* PRE/0 channel) bay PRE/6 (ship* AND channel AND fish) bay PRE/6 ship* AND channel (bay PRE/6 ship* ) OR channel OR fish Doesn’t support using the operatior AND,can use OR with a proximity operator Q:

Education Leaders education leadership Educational Leadership The Journal of Research on Leadership Education Institute for Management and Leadership in Education education* w/5 leadership

teacher professional development teacher development Professional Development of Teachers It then considers the development and professional upgrading of Teacher Education

How to find dissertations How to find information

Kathy Room XYN @ nenu.edu.cn THANKS