Lesson 2: Planning a Search

Objectives

In this lesson, you will learn to:

Identify additional search terms
Search word variants
Use proximity connectors to locate phrases
Use logical operators to link concepts

Introduction

Chris —
Microsoft has its video game "Xbox" in competition with Sony's PlayStation 2. Can you get me some sales stats on how these two products compare?

Thanks,
Brian

In Lesson 1 we identified news databases in a simple search and discovered that the press already seems to have word about the interactivity with PlayStation 2.

In Exercise 1, you also looked at databases that included business journals, specifically the database BUSINESS & INDUSTRY (File 9).

Now we have another piece of information from Brian. I will need to revise my search strategy to include several other search terms in my search.

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