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Try a search on another subject, applying what you
have learned, and using some other features of LEXIS-NEXIS.
This time the topic is the education
of girls in
India.
The simplest search you can do puts the three search terms highlighted above
in the in the second search box. It is also possible, however, to expand
your options by modifying the search slightly.
1. You could decide, for example, that "girls"
is narrowing the search too much and leave it out.
After all, you are searching a database segment that is entirely on women
- and, by extension, girls. Thus, you could remove the term "girls"
from the search and compare the number of hits.
2. You can also try to think of synonyms or other words that would be as
useful to us as "education."
For example, you could include words such as: school,
schools, training, learning, student, pupil, instruction, literacy, etc.,
connecting them to each other with the "or" connector.
QUIZ
What process
can you use to ensure that you will retrieve all of the relevant items
related to a particular word stem?
Do you remember
the symbol that LEXIS-NEXIS requires be added to a word-stem?
One final note - if you are searching on more than
one concept, enclose the operation you want the computer to do first within
parentheses. In this example, enclose all of the synonyms for education
within parentheses so that the computer ORs them before connecting them
to "India." You may also set up your search terms using all
of the search boxes...
... just be sure that Contemporary Women's Issues
is "and-ed" to the rest of the search, while the others are
"or-d."
 
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This page last updated on: August 30, 2002.
