Phrase+Searching+D

= Phrase Searching Block D =

__**What is Phrase Searching, and how does it work? **__ ﻿ Phrase searching is when you search for a group of words strung together in a phrase on a database or search engine as opposed to seperate search entities. In other words, phrase searching enables you to search for a phrase or a word especially if it is a common term. For example, searching for 'taking off the car tire' in a search engine will search for any of the search terms in your query, but if done with quotation marks ("taking off the car tire") then the exact phrase will have to show up in your queries.

Examples of Phrase Searching
One example of phrase searching would be if you want to find a video on taking off a car tire. Normally you would type the key words, but in phrase searching you write the whole phrase: Key Words - Taking off, car tire Phrase Searching - How to take off a car tire How to Use Phrase Searching With: Google, EBSCO, WorldBook Online, United Streaming, and JSTOR

__ Google __
Google is one of the common search engines used when phrase searching. To phrase search on google, one must put opening and closing quotation marks around their phrase. Without the quotation marks, the phrase becomes key words.

And when you want to search something that may not be exact, like "who mentioned in his speech, that the next generation provides the most hope", you would want to type in "next generation" provide "most hope". Like so.



How is Phrase searching effective?
Phrase searching is really effective because it searches for the specific word in your sentence. This makes the user to get an easy access to what he/she is looking for as Google in the above example searches only for the phrase given.

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And if you want to Phrase Search on EBSCO, after you’ve clicked the link to EBSCO from the portal, you would want to go to ‘Research Resources’. Then select an appropriate database for your research. After you’ve done that, it should take you to a search page with a lot of options. Here is where the magic of Phrase Searching comes into work. You HAVE TO tick the box beside ‘Boolean/Phrase’. For the rest of the options, you should click whatever is appropriate for your search as we have learned how to use EBSCO already in class. This method will only work for Research Resources.This method will not work the same for other searching methods on EBSCO. In fact, it is easier to phrase search using different methods of searching on EBSCO is just like Phrase Searching on Google. Just put quotation marks around your search! ====== == __**WorldBook Online **__

==  Step 1: For phrase searching in Word Book, go to World Book online and click //Advanced World Book research.// Then click //Advanced Search.// Step 2: In the advanced search, you will find a list of options that need to be selected in order to narrow down your research. Just select/click //search for a phrase// and type the topic that you’re looking for in the text box provided below and click //Search//. It will then display few results but mostly the first two results are specific and relate to our idea as seen in the above example “Acid rain”. It makes it easy for both user and the search engine to look for the phrase and display your intended results. How is it Effective? Phrase searching in World Book is effective when you want to search for words that appear next to each other such as “Acid rain” in the above example. The use of quotation marks is very effective for the search engine to find web pages that contain the words Twin Terrors anywhere within the page. It is always good to have pronouns in upper case because some search engines distinguish between upper and lower case letters. After you get to the result page, you find great examples that are to use for your search. The advantage of World Book is that it only has few results unlike Google which searches the entire web and displays unintended results after the first page of results. World Book has few results which are easy and efficient to access by the users. As you can see in the above example, the underlined red results are to my use and it is easy for me to find sufficient information about my topic.

__** United Streaming **__
United Streaming is a video database where one can find film on a specific subject. For a person to phrase search on United Streaming, they must first click on the advanced search button beneath the search bar. This will take them to the advanced search page. In the advanced search options you then go to Find Results Matching: and you choose Match Boolean query. This will be used to narrow your search results from key words to phrases.  But y ou must also place opening and closing quotation marks when searching with a phrase. You can then search for a video on a specific category and your phrase will be found.

In United Streaming, phrase searching is a good technique to use because you can find exactly what you are looking for using the words you want. This can limit your results so that you not only have to search through fewer results, but your videos are more likely to be what you actually wanted.

== **__JSTOR __** ==

JSTOR is an archive of respected jorunals. The below screenshots show how using quotation marks in your search will provide more accurate and fewer results. media type="custom" key="6918999"