Assignment 1
1a. death and penalty=7128…death penalty=6587 1b. a lot of them apprear in the title, a few were in the text and the words were right next to each other 1c. some databases give you the option of serching the exact phrase, and also putting quotations around it.
2.
- d /\ p = 1-”death and penalty”
- d \/ p= 1512090-death or penalty
- s =6587 -death penalty
- s /\ n = 639- death penalty and new york state
- s /\ ~ n=
- s \/ c = 7262-death penalty and capital punishment
- s /\ c = 734- death penalty and capital punishment
3. Use parenthesis to get exact phrases.
the and gives you both at the same time
the or gives you either of the words or both words in the same page
4. A
- d /\ p =15568- baseball and players
- d \/ p=201480-baseball or players
- s = 4667-baseball players
- s /\ n=17- baseball players and steroid use
- s /\ ~ n=2-baseball players and no steroid use
- s \/ c=9154-baseball players or drug abuse
- s /\ c=5-baseball players and drug abuse
4B
- d /\ p=1692-global and warming
- d \/ p=22285-global or warming
- s =166-global warming
- s /\ n=0-global warming and green house effect (also) “global warming and green house effect”
- s /\ ~ n=1663-global warming and not green house effect
- s \/ c=3261-global warming or air pollution
- s /\ c=34-global warming and air pollution
Assignment 2
d=death penalty=
c=capital punishment
n=new york state
- n /\ ( d \/ c ) = 702 “new york state” and (“death penalty” or”capital punishment”)
- ( n /\ d ) \/ c = 1909 (“new york state” and “death penalty”) or “capital punishment”
- n /\ d \/ c =702 “new york state” and “death penalty” or “capital punishment”
- ( n /\ d) \/ ( n /\ c)=281 (“new york state” and “death penalty”) or (“new york state” and “capital punishment”)
2. the first one and the third one because it is the same sequence of and and or its just putting brackets and even the words are in the same order as you search.
3. a=c
b=
c=
d=
