BRAINSTORMING FOR SEARCH TERM & BOOLEAN OPERATORS- WEEK 5

 Assalamualaikum. Today I will talk about what I have learnt in week 5. Big topic for this week is brainstorming for search term. What I understand about this topic, they teach us how to search information easily using keyword or subject heading and so on. Firstly, when we should using keyword? When you're first starting to formulate your research question, it can be useful to brainstorm keywords that are synonymous with or related to the major concepts of your topic, as well as narrower and broader terms. Subject heading usually will give you specific information about the book that you search. There are many types of subject heading such as Library subject heading, Science subject heading, or Thesaurus Psychological Index term.

 In addition, we have learnt about BOOLEAN OPERATORS. From my understanding, word for Boolean was got from the name of mathematician there was George Boole. There are combining terms AND, OR, NOT. Boolean Searching : this allows us to group words together in an electronic database or environment such as WWW (world Wide Web). Each words will come out with different results. This is the most common and basic strategy.

      AND 

—  By using an AND between words you limit the search.

OR

—  By placing an OR between words it expands the search.
—  When you use OR you receive more information because the search engine is looking for two words rather than just one word.

NOT

 'not' operator which allows you to exclude words from the search.
—If a document has a word that you would like to search but that document also contains another word that you do not want to retrieve, then it will exclude that document from you search query results.