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Topic: Inequality
Time: November

Equality in America

Team Project Assignment Sheet

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Performance Task 1 Breakdown - Writing an Individual Research Report

Planning for your Individual Research Report

How to start your IRR


Instructions for the TMP


BASIC/ADVANCED: Steps to creating search strategies1. Identify the keywords in your research question. Keywords are words that carry content and meaning. The keywords in the research  question "What is the feeding range of the blue whale in the Pacific Ocean?" are feeding range, blue whale and Pacific Ocean.
2. Brainstorm synonyms for your keywords. Think of words similar to your keywords in case a database doesn't use your original keywords. Synonyms for blue whale are baleen whale and Balaenoptera musculus.
3. Create Boolean searches using the keywords. A Boolean search is a search using the words AND, OR and NOT between the keywords. These words have a special function when used in a database.
  •  The search [blue whale AND Pacific Ocean] will find all of the articles that contain both words. AND makes your search narrower.
  • The search [blue whale OR Balaenoptera musculus] will find all articles that contain one word, or the other, or both. OR is placed between synonyms and makes your search broader.
  • The search [blue whale NOT Atlantic Ocean] will find all articles containing "blue whale" and exclude the articles that also contain "Atlantic Ocean." NOT excludes articles that you don't want.
4. Use the truncation symbol to search for word variations.You can avoid doing multiple searches for variations on word endings using the truncation symbol * (the asterisk) in most databases.  Entering the keyword "blue whale*" will look for both blue whale and blue whales.
5. Add keywords to limit the type of article you retrieve. If you want a literature review, add "AND review" to your keywords. To find a research study, add "AND study" to your keywords.
6. Enter your Boolean searches in the Advanced Search of a database. Always go to the Advanced Search in a database to enter your Boolean searches because it gives you multiple boxes with the Boolean operators between them. If you are using a search with multiple search strings, enter OR within the search boxes and AND between the search boxes, e.g., [blue whale OR Balaenoptera musculus] AND [feeding range OR feeding grounds] AND [Pacific Ocean].

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    • WHS LMC
    • BPL Databases
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    • 2019-2020 Syllabus
  • Calendar
    • 2020-2021 Calendar
  • Units
    • Welcome to AP Seminar
    • Unit 1a: Research
    • Unit 1b: Reading - EOC A
    • Unit 1c: Writing
    • Unit 2: Writing the EOC B
    • Unit 3a: Mock IRR
    • Unit 3b: Mock TMP
    • Unit 4: IRR
    • Unit 5: TMP
    • Unit 6: IWA
    • Unit 7: IMP
  • JoS at WHS
  • About
    • About the Galushas
    • Contact Us
    • New Literacy
    • A Letter about Reading