Lesson 4 - ProQuest
For my basic search, I looked up "Julie Andrews My Fair Lady". It came up with 1142 results. I skimmed 20 of them. I learned you have to be careful with your use of smaller words like "my" as the results will highlight these words in the text they provide by themselves. I selected an article in Variety. It was very good. I then sucessfully emailed it to myself. I also noticed on the right side one could narrow your results through 12 categories. This would be very beneficial if I actually needed to research Julie Andrews and did not want to look over 1142 results.
I posted comments on another blogger's Lesson 4 after I scrolled down through all their lessons. They were up-to-date. Looks like I am one of the few who are behind.
On the Publications tab I tried to locate a journal I used to subscribe to entitled Instructor. When I clicked on the most current issue - Winter 2012 - it listed highlights from 1999. So, I then picked "Top Five for February 1999". I found 2 useful sites from Scholastic.com. One was for Brian Selznick's Virtual Field Trip. The other was a book wizard to help you select reading materials by topic and grade level.
ProQuest has a lot of information to share. I would need extra time or actual projects in order to more fully appreciate everything that is available at this site.
Hi, BookFanatic! Thanks for this good report. A couple tips: If you put " " around phrases, you will get fewer random results, so "Julie Andrews" "My Fair Lady" will yield 175, all relevant. In the Publications search, you were actually searching Winter 2012 and the top 5 from Feb. 2012. There are 2 records for Instructor, one closed and the one with (1999) after it is the new beginning. They put the (1999) to differentiate between the two. Confused? So are we. We just want you to understand that you were looking at a new issue with new information. Thanks for your comments!
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