Intermediate User Scenario - Basic Search form
| Who |
Neha, a first year graduate student |
| Class |
Governance and Public Policy |
| Assignment |
Using Congressional primary source documents, write an analysis of Federal response to hurricanes that occurred prior to Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Focus on the response to one or two specific hurricanes |
| Objective |
Find information about hurricanes other than Hurricane Katrina |
| Starting Info |
Topic is hurricanes, restricted to exclude Katrina |
- Selects the Basic Search form from the ProQuest Congressional options for Congressional Publications searches.
- Types Hurricanes AND NOT Katrina into the box.
- Clicks Search.
- Retrieves results and prints the full citation list for future reference.
- Returns to search results and glances through titles for suggestions about names of specific hurricanes.
- Decides to search the full Hurricane search results for records that specifically mention Hurricane Andrew.
- Types Andrew in the search box and clicks the Search within results box to search within the results set, and executes the search.
- Retrieves focused results, clicks the expanded list tab, and notices that these results include not just information on Hurricane Andrew, but information on hurricanes and anyone named Andrew or Andrews, including Andrew Cuomo and Representative Mark Andrews.
- Types Hurricane Andrew in the search box and clicks the Search within results box to search within the results set, and executes the search.
- Retrieves new results, clicks the Expanded List tab, and notes that all records include information specifically about Hurricane Andrew.
- Prints the focused citation list for future reference, and is now ready to begin research for the analysis.
Tip:
Refine your Basic Search by using connectors such as
AND,
AND NOT,
OR, or
W/N. You can type them between terms in an Enter search terms box or select AND, AND NOT, or OR from the drop-down list between the boxes.
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