Jake Johnson LIBS 150 Search Strategy Assignment

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My Search Strategy for the Effect of Pets on Owners’ Mental Health Jake Johnson University of Maryland Global Campus LIBS 150 A742 Prof. Veronica Lee February 15, 2024 My Search Strategy for [Topic] STEP 1: Choose one of the selected topics below for this assignment. Or, if you are currently taking another class, you could use a topic from it. If you would like to propose your own topic, discuss your idea with your professor. State which topic you’ve chosen. Topics: The effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on higher education The effect of supply chain issues on global commerce The effect of pets on owners’ mental health The effect of artificial intelligence/machine learning on higher education Type your answer here: The effect of pets on owners’ mental health STEP 2: Fill in the table below as a starting point for your search. Please refer to the materials in Week 1, including the “Identifying an Information Need” learning resource and the example on “climate change” under the “Creating a Search Strategy” topic. Step Your answers: 1. Write your topic. The effects of pet owners to people's mental health. 2. Use Google Bard or ChatGPT to learn about your topic, narrow your focus, and come up with some key words. https://sl.bing.net/dYa2FzXjQ5I After researching this topic, I was able to narrow my focus to animal companionship and mental health attributes . Pet animals, mental fatigue, pets affection, and health

effects - are also possible keywords. 3. Write a focused research question. How does the companionship of pets effect owners mental health? 4. Write a preliminary topic statement based on what you learned. [You will use research to validate (or revise) this early assumption.] Pet owners greatly impact the mental health of their owners. 5. List words or phrases from steps 3 and 4 that express the main ideas of your topic (key concepts). Two to four concepts are generally enough to capture the meaning. Pets, animal companionship, mental health. 6. Consider dates, geographic locations, and/or other relevant limiting factors to narrow your search. Looking at 2000 and later; North America just to limit my results 7. Now find relevant synonyms for each of the main ideas listed in step 5. Pets: dog, cat Mental Health: comfort, content, welfare, benefit Companionship: fellowship, amity, togetherness, rapport 8. Write different forms of the words or phrases you listed (if any). For example: Pollute, pollution, pollutants = pollut* (using truncation). Companio* (companion, companions, companionship) Mental* (Mental health, mental state, mentality) STEP 3 : Create a Boolean Search Statement using an AI tool. Go to Google Bard or ChatGPT and ask the tool to create a Boolean search statement related to your topic. Share a “snip” or screenshot of a portion of your initial results here: STEP 4: Open the UMGC Library page; copy and paste the AI generated Boolean search statement into the library’s OneSearch tool. Provide a full screenshot of the results of your search – include the search statement, the number of results, and a few of the results. Share a full screenshot of your initial results here:

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