Title: Quiz 2: Advanced Searching Skills
Course: Library - Library Sandbox > Section: Ontario Tech Library Online: Advanced Searching for Research Articles

Q: Choose the keywords from this research question:
How does a person's diet affect the risk for getting cancer?
- diet (This answer is correct! Good job.)
- cancer (This answer is correct! Good job.)
- risk (This answer is incorrect. Please try again.)
- affect (This answer is incorrect. Please try again.)
A: diet; cancer

Q: Which search would retrieve MORE results?
- diet* OR nutri* OR food* (This answer is correct! By using OR, you are telling the search engine to bring back any results that use either diet* OR nutri* OR food*)
- diet* OR nutri* (This answer is incorrect. Please try again.)
- diet* AND nutri* AND food* (This answer is incorrect. By using AND, you are telling the search engine to only bring back results that have all 3 terms: diet* AND nutri* AND food*. Please try again.)
- diet* AND nutri* (This answer is incorrect. Please try again.)
A: diet* OR nutri* OR food*

Q: What strategies can you use to retrieve FEWER results while searching? Select all answers that apply.
- Add another synonym using OR (This answer is incorrect. Using OR brings back more search results not less. Remember- OR means more! Please try again.)
- Add another keyword using AND (This answer is correct! There are a number of different ways that you can limit your search results, including by adding another keyword using AND. The more keywords you add to your search with AND, the fewer results you will get.)
- Use the asterisk (*) (This answer is incorrect. The asterisk will actually bring back more results (i.e. robot* = robot, robots, robotics).)
- Use quotation marks around any phrases (This answer is correct! There are a number of different ways that you can limit your search results, including by using quotation marks around phrases. This strategy forces the search engine to retrieve fewer and more relevant results (i.e. "common cold").)
A: Add another keyword using AND; Use quotation marks around any phrases