Week 6

Hey Friends week sixth is actually the my favourite week for Information literacy because the topics lecturer taught me was really exciting and informative. I also want to share with all my friends we had a sejahetra market in AIU on last sunday. It was quite amazing and interesting. All students from respective countries made their own stalls inside university and every country was representing its own customs and traditional foods. It was quite good that we came to know about each other cultures. This is what known as actually HUMANIVERSITY.
 They were only two topics for week six :

• Truncation 
• Wild Card

Truncation: 

Truncation and wildcards broaden your search capabilities by allowing you to retrieve multiple spellings of a root word or word stem, such as singular and plural forms.

Truncation is using a wildcard at the end of a root word to search multiple variations of that root word. Check a database's help section to identify what symbol is used for a wildcard.

For example : protect* OR conserv* OR regulat* would retrieve multiple spellings of these synonyms.

Wildcard :

A character that substitutes for any other character or character range in regular expressions and globbing or 

 wildcard is a special character, such as an asterisk (*), question mark (?), or pound sign (#), that replaces one or more letters in a word. A wildcard usually represents a single character.

Lecturer also taught us about phrase searching. Phrase searching is when you use a string of words (instead of a single word) to search with. By using phrase searching you will retrieve fewer results!