Asking and Answering the Research Question [Part 1] — Transcript

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1. 0:02hello and welcome today I'm going to
2. 0:05take you through how to prepare a search
3. 0:07in order to find scholarly articles on a
4. 0:10topic before you even start searching
5. 0:12it's important to understand what you
6. 0:14are trying to find and more importantly
7. 0:17how to translate your research question
8. 0:19into terms that a computer can
9. 0:21understand let's start out with our
10. 0:23research question let's say that I want
11. 0:25to find information on the effectiveness
12. 0:28of food literacy program for high school
13. 0:30students the first thing I have to do is
14. 0:33to write this out in the form of a
15. 0:35question what is the effect of food
16. 0:37literacy programs on the BMI of high
17. 0:40school students the next thing I have to
18. 0:43do is analyze the relevant parts of my
19. 0:45question the relevant parts of my
20. 0:48question are food literacy BMI and high
21. 0:51school students then I have to define
22. 0:54the parts of my question what I call
23. 0:56Food literacy is really just jargon that
24. 0:59represents the idea of food choices and
25. 1:02their impact on health so let's find
26. 1:04some similar words that describe the
27. 1:06concept of food
28. 1:08literacy here are some words that
29. 1:10describe my concept food literacy food
30. 1:14education programs healthy eating
31. 1:16behaviors food preparation and
32. 1:19nutritional
33. 1:20education these all describe the ideas
34. 1:23behind food literacy and we'll pick up
35. 1:25some relevant articles my next concept
36. 1:28to look at is High School schol students
37. 1:30there are other words to describe this
38. 1:32group including teenagers adolescents
39. 1:35Secondary School students BMI is quite a
40. 1:39specific idea in almost a universal
41. 1:41description but we've included BMI and
42. 1:45body mass index to cover both ways this
43. 1:48could be described in the literature now
44. 1:50that we have some synonyms we can start
45. 1:53structuring a search we are going to
46. 1:55place all the similar terms together
47. 1:58within brackets and then join the groups
48. 2:00of terms together this is concept one it
49. 2:04contains the words that describe the
50. 2:06concept of food literacy but broadened
51. 2:09out to include the words nutritional
52. 2:11education or healthy eating Behavior
53. 2:14because essentially this is what the
54. 2:16concept of food literacy is describing
55. 2:18concept two is about high school
56. 2:20students but we could also describe this
57. 2:22group as teenagers or adolescence so
58. 2:25we've gathered these words together in
59. 2:26Brackets as well concept three is about
60. 2:29being Mi I both as an acronym and fully
61. 2:32spelled out we come to our final search
62. 2:35string you'll see that each word or
63. 2:37phrase is separated by the word or in
64. 2:40capital letters this is a command saying
65. 2:43to the database as long as you find this
66. 2:45word or this one or this one in the
67. 2:48brackets that's okay because they all
68. 2:50describe the same thing you'll also see
69. 2:53that each group of brackets is connected
70. 2:55together by the word and this means we
71. 2:57are saying to the database that while we
72. 2:59don't mind which word that it finds
73. 3:01within the brackets it must find at
74. 3:03least one of the terms in the brackets
75. 3:05together in the search results we've put
76. 3:08terms of more than one word in quotes
77. 3:11because then they'll be searched as a
78. 3:12phrase with both words together instead
79. 3:15of being searched separately phrases
80. 3:17such as food literacy or healthy eating
81. 3:19Behavior are examples we've also added
82. 3:22the asterisk symbol to words such as
83. 3:25adolescence so the database will pick up
84. 3:27adolescent or adolescent
85. 3:30same with teenager or teenagers now that
86. 3:33we have constructed a good search all we
87. 3:35have to do is to apply it to an artical
88. 3:38database we can do this by simply
89. 3:40cutting and pasting this search string
90. 3:43into a database such as summon senile
91. 3:45PubMed or Google Scholar we will cover
92. 3:48this and how to refine our search in the
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