Name: _______________________ Date: ________________ Class Period: _____________ ProQuest Scavenger Hunt ELACC8W7: I can conduct short research

projects to answer a question. ELACC8W8: I can gather relevant information from lots of sources, using search terms effectively.

1. Click on the Basic Search tab (if not already there).

1. At the Basic Search tab, search a topic (such as dogs, basketball, fashion, computers). What topic did you search? _____________________________________________ How many documents were found? ______________________________________ 2. Select one of the documents that were found in your search. Click the orange Cite link at the top of the page. Change the dropdown arrow from APA 6th Edition to MLA 7th Edition, and click Change. The Citation should look something like this: Mulick, Stacey. Crews Use Ropes to Rescue Man Stranded on Sandbar. The News Tribune 6 July 2006: B6. ProQuest. Squalicum High School Lib., Bellingham, WA. 5 Jan. 2007 <http://www.proquest.com>.

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Click on the article title link. Scroll down to see the abstract and full text. How many pages are in the full text of your document?

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At the top of your screen, click on the Email button. Email the article to yourself using ProQuest as the subject line. Show your teacher the email in your inbox and have him/her initial here.

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Click on the Advanced Search tab.

5. At the Advanced Search tab search for sleep. How many documents were found? Now add teenagers to the second line. How many documents were found? Now add education to the third line. How many documents were found? Search for pets AND aging. How many documents were found?_______ Now add NOT dogs. How many documents were found? ________ Now change the date range to last 3 months. How many documents were found? ____ Use key words not phrases when searching in ProQuest. To find out how this works, try this:

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Search for death penalty in Georgia all on one line. How many documents were found? __________ Search for death penalty AND Georgia using two different lines. How many documents were found? ________

Why do you think the answers are different?

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What is the advantage of an Advanced Search?

Click on the Publications tab.

9. At the blue Publications link, click on one of the letter links in blue. What letter did you select? How many publications are in the database that starts with that letter? Find the link to Scholastic Math magazine. Click on the link. How many issues are in the database? _________ Click View Most Recent Issue. What is the title of one of the articles? Find an article about voting in the most recent issue of Scholastic Action magazine. Who is the author of the article? How is a ProQuest search different than an Internet search?

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