Mod. 3 Project (L)

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Thesis/Research Question(s): How does perinatal care differ between obstetricians and midwives?

Concept One:

Midwives

Midwives (certified nurse midwives, certified midwife, NP midwifery) Midewifery Midewife Doula (monitrice) Birth Advocate

Concept Two: Obstetricians

Obstetrics Obstetrician OBGYN Obstetrics and Gynocology

Concept Three: Perinatal care

Care during birth Maternal fetal care Perinatal health issues (high blood pressure, unnecessary interventions, C Section healing, breastfeeding, home safety) Caesarean section

1) Extract Main Concepts 2) Create a list of synonyms and related concepts for each main concept 3) Link synonyms and related concepts with OR Midwife OR “certified midwife” OBGYN OR obstetrician

AND

AND

Commented [ML1]: Step one asks you to turn your question into concepts. I’ve done that by adding the concepts to the first column.

Commented [ML2]: Step two has us list synonyms and related concepts to our main concepts. I’ve put those in the larger second column.

Commented [ML3]: Now we get to make search strings! First, let’s use OR to create options between our synonyms. I’d suggest using a new line or new page to write these out! We don’t want our search strings to be stuck in one concept, we want to apply some from each!

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“perinatal care” OR “maternal fetal care”

4) Link main concepts with AND “perinatal care” AND midwife “perinatal care” AND obstetrician OR OBGYN “perinatal care” AND “high blood pressure” “perinatal care” AND “caesarean section” 5) Utilize phrases (“”) and truncation (*) See above for phrases! Midwi* AND “perinatal care” Obstetr* AND “perinatal care”

Commented [ML4]: Do the same with AND! (My favorite boolean operator)

Commented [ML5]: Technically you can integrate step 5 anywhere in your search strings, but if you’d rather save these two tools for the end, I won’t dock points.

Search Menu Worksheet Thesis/Research Question(s): Primary Research Question: How does shorter summer break in year-round school impact children?

Supporting Research Questions: How do children attending year-round schools benefit from a shorter summer break? What are the challenges for children and their families with a shorter summer break? Why are there not more year-round schools? (Is this due to the shorter summer break?)

Concept One: summer break

“summer break” OR break OR “summer vacation”

Concept Two: children child* OR student* OR “student learning”

Concept Three: year-round school “year-round school” OR “year-round education” OR “balanced calendar”

1) Extract Main Concepts: summer break, children, year-round school 2) Create a list of synonyms and related concepts for each main concept:

summer break, break, summer vacation children, child, students, student, student learning year-round school, year-round education, balanced calendar

3) Link synonyms and related concepts with OR “summer break” OR break* OR “summer vacation” child* OR student* OR “student learning” “year-round school” OR “year-round education” OR “balanced calendar”

4) Link main concepts with AND “summer break” AND “year-round school” “summer break” AND child* AND “year-round school”

AND

AND

Search Menu Worksheet “summer break” OR break* AND “year-round school” OR “balanced calendar”

5) Utilize phrases (“”) and truncation (*) “summer break” AND “student learning” AND “year-round school” “summer vacation” AND “student learning” AND “year-round school”

“summer break” AND “student learning” AND “year-round education” “summer vacation” AND “student learning” AND “year-round education”

“summer break” AND student* AND “balanced calendar” “summer vacation” AND student* AND “balanced calendar” break* AND student* AND “balanced calendar”