Exercise 7: Sample Search
Choose the best source(s) that would yield the most relevant information to support the thesis given from the choices below:
1) online catalog to find books
2) magazines and journals/ indexes and abstracts
3) newspaper indexes
4) reference books
5) Library of Congress subject heading Index
6) Internet resources
7) knowledgeable people
8) interlibrary Loan
9) reference librarian
Exercise 7A
Anorexia nervosa has both emotional and social causes which work hand in hand.
Answers
The correct answers are: 1,2,6,9.
Your primary places for locating sources will be:
1. online catalogs to find books
2. magazines and journals, indexes and abstracts
6. Internet resources
9. reference librarian
Exercise 7B
Since the breakup of the former Soviet Union, business practices in those countries have changed most in the fields of marketing/customer service, reflecting the changes in government and political philosophy.
Answers
The correct answers are 2 and 9.
Your primary places for locating sources will be:
2. magazines and journals
9. reference librarian
Exercise 7C
The appearance of Hamlet's father's ghost raises an important psychological, as well as dramatic, dilemma in the play.
Answers
The correct answers are: 1, 2 and 9.
Your primary places for locating sources will be:
1. online catalog to find books
2. magazines and journals
9. reference librarian
Exercise 7D
The whole-language approach has been effective in raising the reading skills of elementary-school children and in helping the children understand the relevance of reading to all fields of study in school.
Answers
The correct answers are: 1, 2 and 9.
Your primary places for locating sources will be:
1. online catalog to find books
2. magazines and journals
9. reference librarian.
Exercise 7E
U.S. government policies on health care have changed during the past 20 years; this change in policy has made hospitals currently function as oligopolies.
Answers
The correct answers are: 1, 2 and 9.
Your primary places for locating sources will be:
1. online catalog to find books
2. magazines and journals
9. reference librarian
