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Databases and searching
Lisa McLaren and Helen Miller
lisa.mclaren@edgehill.ac.uk helen.miller@edgehill.ac.uk
Assignment writing and referencing
Ian Gannon iain.gannon@edgehill.ac.uk
Decide how comprehensive you want to be
Keep a record of your search terms or save your search
Use the online help
Use alternative spellings
"diabetes" will give you over 5 million results on Discovermore
An information literate person knows when and why they need information, where to find it, and how to evaluate, use and communicate it in an ethical manner (CILIP, 2004).
*Transferrable skills that you can use in employment
* Help with evidence based health care
Choose your database.
You might want Cinahl, Proquest or something more specialist?
You might be informed by
You might need the internet - check out the 'Online Research' tab in Your FoHSC Resources on Learning Edge.
Use these three terms to put your search together - don't type a question!
Try truncation to save time e.g. child* will pick up child, children, childhood etc.
Our search statement could look like this:
ethics AND GM food AND diet
(ethics or morality) AND genetically modified food AND (diet or nutrition)
Too many?
Too few?
Look at the question -are there any unfamiliar terms?
Example question:
"Discuss the ethical issues related to genetically modified food in the human diet"
Keywords: ethics
genetically modified food
human
diet
Use the database thesaurus and indexing to help you!
UK vs US terms and spellings
Paediatrics or Pediatrics
Formal vs informal terms
Heart attack or Myocardial infarction
For our essay question, how about
ethics or morality
genetically modified food or GM food or genetic engineering
diet or nutrition or consumption