Author Question: Why would the Boolean article OR be used if a researcher is conducting a digital literature search ... (Read 115 times)

iveyjurea · **on:** Jul 8, 2018

Why would the Boolean article OR be used if a researcher is conducting a digital literature search of journals on the topic of prolonged adolescent grieving after parental loss?

a. It focuses the search on parental loss, the last search term.
b. It is useful when a researcher is undecided.
c. It narrows the search to articles containing all terms.
d. It allows the researcher to enter the search terms without excluding those whose authors did not keyword all the words of the topic.

Question 2

The original quotation in the fictional text by Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe (2009) is as follows:

Because of overemphasis on academic excellence, especially test grades, the high schools studied had a disproportionate number of students who reported sleeplessness, nervousness, nightmares, and guilt. These were attributed to various factors, the most significant of which was a very strict principal, who voiced open disapproval of students she felt were underachieving their enormous academic potential. Parents were very accepting of this behavior, echoing it in their interactions with the students.
What is the acceptable way to properly attribute this content in a literature review?
a. Parents were very accepting of the principal's behavior, which included voiced disapproval of underachieving students, echoing it in their interactions with their sons and daughters.
b. Because of overemphasis on academic excellence, especially test grades, the high schools studied had a disproportionate number of students who reported sleeplessness, nervousness, nightmares, and guilt. These were attributed to various factors, the most significant of which was a very strict principal, who voiced open disapproval of students she felt were underachieving their enormous academic potential. Parents were very accepting of this behavior, echoing it in their interactions with the students. (Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe, 2009).
c. As compared with other high schools, Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe (2009) reported a higher incidence of distress manifestations, such as nightmares and nervousness, in a strictly college-prep school with an extremely disapproving principal, who verbally berated students for less-than-expected academic performance.
d. High schools with disapproving authority figures have a higher incidence of somatization (see Atchison et al, 2009).

lgoldst9 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 8, 2018

Answer to Question 1

ANS: D
The Boolean operators are the three words AND, OR, and NOT. Often they must be capitalized. The Boolean operators AND and NOT are used with the identified concepts. The Boolean operator OR is most useful with synonymous terms or concepts. It is used to search for the presence of any of a group of terms in the same search.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: C
Rather than using direct quotes from an author, the writer of the literature review should paraphrase the author's ideas. Use of the author's exact words represents plagiarism. Eliminating the quotation marks, and citing an entire paragraph, with the authors' names at the end, also constitutes plagiarism. Paraphrasing involves expressing the ideas clearly and in one's own words. The meanings of these sources are then connected to the proposed study.