Nov 4, 2009

PPT for today's class (Session 6) and readings

I've uploaded that to the syllabus, so please review it, sorry for going through it in a rush today.

For slide 21, the link is for Academic Search Premier's help screen.  Please read through that to get a better idea of search techniques in a real database (that's not just for ASP, that's for all EBSCOhost databases).  Here's how to get to that:
1. on the library website, click on Article Databases, then click on A (http://www.cofc.edu/library/find/databases/index.php#a),
2. click on the database Academic Search Premier,
3. click on the help (top right corner) screen,
4. peruse these linked pages for search techniques
under Searching:
Booleans,
Including Phrases in a Search,
Proximity Searches,
Wildcard and Truncation Symbols,
under Browsing:
Thesaurus 

Besides that, if there are further readings links on the syllabus, please read those too.

Exercise 1

For some reason, you guys didn't do well on Exercise 1.  If I have time today after the planned lecture, I'll go over them w/ you all.  If not, I'll post the answers online for you to view.

Reminder: Exercise 2 and Quiz 2

Just to remind those that haven't done Exercise 2 and/or open Quiz 2 yet, they are due today before class (3pm, 11/4).

Again, late assignments (including exercises, open quizzes, etc.) will be docked 10% per day after due time, which is clearly stated on the Course Info page.  This is the last time that I will remind you, since I don't want to bore the good students that always submit stuff on time for the class.