"SIXTH WEEK
REFLECTION"
“Tell
me, and I will forget. Show me, and I may remember. Involve me, and I will
understand”
The week has gone and we
started with week six. As week six was a bit boring for me because, I had so
many assignments and I had two mid-term exams. During week six when I entered
to class I was feeling very boring and sad. When the lecturer entered to class
we welcomed her and we said Good Afternoon to her. Then, the lecturer started
to ask some questions about our previous lesson the aim of our lecturer was
just to evaluate us that, whether we understand or no. Yet, all the students
were able to answer the questions. After that, we started with our lesson. Week
six was all about Search Strategies Basics. First of all we started with week
six session 1. In session 1 we studied Truncation and Wildcards. Furthermore,
the lecture gave us some information about Truncation and Wildcards.
Moreover, by studying
this lesson I learned that, Truncation and wildcards broaden your search
capabilities by allowing you to retrieve multiple spellings of a root word or
word stem, such as singular and plural forms. A wildcard is a special
character, such as an asterisk (*), question mark (?), or pound sign (#), that
replaces one or more letters in a word. Example of Truncation: truncation
expands the search to locate all words beginning with the same root. Example:
teen* will return teen, teens, teenage, teenagers, etc……. Example of Wildcard:
A wildcard is used in the middle of a word to match usually known variants of
term. A wildcard usually represents a single character. Example: wom?n will
return woman, women and womyn.
Furthermore, we started
with week six session 2 and 3. In session 2 and 3 we studied Phrase Searching.
By studying this lesson I learned that, what phrase searching is all about.
Phrase searching is when you use a string of words (instead of a single word)
to search with. Some databases will use the brackets. We have to look at the
“Help” function of each database to see what you should use for that particular
database. The lecturer stressed on this point a lot that, not all the databases
allow phrase searching. We have to look at the “Help” function of the database
to find out.
"Periodical Searching Words And Phrase Searching"
Last but not least, it
was an interesting week and I learned a lot of new things which I have not
known before. I was really interested in this lesson because, I learned about
searching, Truncation and Wildcards. After, studying this lesson I am fully
able to find the differences between phrase searching and Boolean searching.
Sincerely,
Said Abid s/o Said Tahir
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