1. RESEARCH THE CAREER
Click OCCUPATIONS
2. RESEARCH THE CONTROVERSY
When you search MegaSearch, you have access to over fifty databases for articles and other types of literature. From browsing these articles, you can can identify and choose to read about a controversy in your career.
Examples:
Career field Controversy
Nursing Should nurses participate in assisted suicide?
Financial adviser What are the ethical responsibilities of a financial adviser?
Dancer/Ballerina Should ballerinas observe weight standards?
Additional databases that you can search for controversial material regarding your career:
In the top box, enter a word of phrase for your career. Then click Search.
Focus on keywords that signal a controversy:
To find all variants of these words, we add wildcards (asterisks*) to the stem of the word.
In the second search box, type in the following:
Before you search, click the pull-down menu (to the right of this search box).
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To find sources that support the points of your argument, you do Advanced Searches in Megasearch:
Here is a second search example:
If you are looking for the danger of being injured as a firefighter. Your basic search looks like this:
Now you can focus the search to find specific supporting sources. Use the third search box.
Search 1: Add statistics to the third box:
Search 2: Replace statistics with burn* or smok*:
Truncation: *
The asterisk * is a common symbol used to represent any number of letters at the ends of words
Helps find singulars, plurals, and variant endings of words
Example: nurs* finds nurse, nurses, nursing
Most databases let you limit search results. Some limiters include:
Language
Publication type..such as Peer-Reviewed or Scholarly Journals.
Date of Publication
Phrases: " "
Enclose phrases in quotation marks when searching the Web or most databases
Phrase searching in individual databases may vary.
Example: "fashion model"
Example: "registered nurse"