week 6

Hello........ :-)

Assalamualikom!!!

How are you for this week? Hope all of you happy like me. :-)...

 As you know, every week I need to update my literacy blog. I have learnt something new in this week. For this week, we already learnt about truncation and wildcards. What is that? I do not know even heard about that term before. I am very surprise. hahahaha… over right!!

SESSION 1

For your information, truncation and wildcards are used to broaden our search capabilities by allowing us to retrieve multiple spellings of a root word or word stem, such as singular and plural forms.

TRUNCATION 

Truncation is using a wildcard at the end of a root word to search multiple variations of that root word.
In this search example: protect* OR conserv* OR regulat* would retrieve multiple spellings of these synonyms.
Some databases may allow us to use truncation at the beginning of words or within words (this is called internal truncation)
Truncation expands the search to locate all words beginning with the same root.
Example:  teen* ---> teen, teens, teenage, teenager, etc.)

       

WILDCARD

A wildcard is a special character, such as an asterisk (*), question mark (?), or pound sign (#), that replaces one or more letters in a word.
A wildcard usually represents a single character.
A Wildcard is used in the middle of a word to match usually known variants of a term.
Example: wom?n --->woman, women, and wormy.

SESSION 2 AND 3

PHRASE SEARCHING

Phrase searching is when we use a string of words (instead of a single word) to search with.
We will retrieve fewer results!
Example: We might be looking for information on information literacy. Each one of these words has a different meaning when standing alone and will retrieve many irrelevant documents, but when you put them together the meaning changes to the very precise concept of “information literacy".
We should put our phrase between brackets ( ) or inverted commas ".
Type our search as follows:  “information literacy" or (information literacy)

inverted commas

That all for this week..bye!! bye!! Bye!!

see you later!