Exercise 7: Sample Search

Choose the best source(s) that would yield the most relevant information to support the thesis given from the choices below:

1. online catalog to find books
2. magazines and journals/ indexes and abstracts
3. newspaper indexes
4. reference books
5. Library of Congress subject heading Index
6. Internet resources
7. knowledgeable people
8. interlibrary Loan
9. reference librarian

Example 1

Anorexia nervosa has both emotional and social causes which work hand in hand.

Example 2

Since the breakup of the former Soviet Union, business practices in those countries have changed most in the fields of marketing/customer service, reflecting the changes in government and political philosophy.

Example 3

The appearance of Hamlet's father's ghost raises an important psychological, as well as dramatic, dilemma in the play.

Example 4

The whole-language approach has been effective in raising the reading skills of elementary-school children and in helping the children understand the relevance of reading to all fields of study in school.

Example 5

U.S. government policies on health care have changed during the past 20 years; this change in policy has made hospitals currently function as oligopolies.