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:
- online catalog to find books
- magazines and journals/ indexes and abstracts
- newspaper indexes
- reference books
- Library of Congress subject heading Index
- Internet resources
- knowledgeable people
- interlibrary Loan
- reference librarian
Example 1
Anorexia nervosa has both emotional and social causes which work hand in hand.
Example 2
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.
Example 3
The appearance of Hamlet's father's ghost raises an important psychological, as well as dramatic, dilemma in the play.
Example 4
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.
Example 5
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.