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Assignment from Prof. Morris

Choose an historical event (something between 1965 to 2005) in the history of America, and write an essay, in narrative form, from the perspective of a participant/observer of the event. I want you to write the story from your perspective—not the perspective of a main historical figure (i.e. don’t tell the story through the eyes of someone like Kurt Cobain, or Martin Luther King). Your narrative should be limited to one day. Assume the audience knows the basic importance and relevance of the event to history. The idea is for you to tell a story using facts of history—like a movie “based on” a real event.  

Instruction Evaluation

Developing Your Search Strategy

Developing an Effective Search Strategy Involves: 

  • Identifyng the key search concepts

  • Identifying related terms to the key search concepts

  • Using standard search structures to broaden and narrow your search results

While there is not ONE right way to do a search, the strategies identified on this page will improve your results!

Historic Newspapers

Use these to find books and articles about the event

Search Techniques: Boolean Operators

Limiting and Expanding Your Search Using And, Or, Not...

Boolean searching involves adding or subtracting terms to your search to either broaden or narrow your search. It uses three terms (AND, OR, NOT) to tell the search engine or database whether to include or eliminate certain terms.                                  

 

                                                                                                                                   

Savannah AND American Revolution both keywords in the same source AND  limits, or focuses, retrieval

Suffrage OR Voting OR 15th Amendment  either/or of these terms, OR expands retrieval

Nursing NOT "nursing home"  Search the first but take out any sources with the second term

                                       

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