11 and 12 - General Mathematics - health and driving issues research: Introduction
HOW TO SEARCH FOR WEBSITES EFFICIENTLY
You need to know how to do this for university or TaFE
1. Boolean searching
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and (don’t have to use it with Google anymore) |
drinking and statistics |
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or |
(statistic or data or graph or chart) |
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( ) |
(statistic or data or graph or chart) |
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“ ” |
“drink driving” “road toll” |
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* |
201* |
2. Domain searching
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site:.au |
This will limit your results to the Australian domain of web addresses |
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site:.gov |
This will limit your results to the Australian government domain of web addresses |
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site.nsw |
This will limit your results to the New South Wales government domain of web addresses |
3. Put Boolean and domain searching together to search for statistics:
Here's a template for a search string:
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health topic |
(youth or teenager or adolescent) |
(statistic or data or graph or chart) |
201* |
site:.au |
Example 1:
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anxiety (youth or teenager or adolescent) (statistic or data or graph or chart) 201* site:.au |
Example 2:
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(drinking or alcohol) (female or girl or wom*n) (statistic or data or graph or chart) 201* site:.au |
Example 3
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speeding (youth or teenager or adolescent) (statistic or data or graph or chart) 201* site:.gov |
HOW TO SEARCH FOR NEWS ARTICLES EFFICIENTLY
You need to know how to do this for university or TaFE
- ANZ Newsstream This link opens in a new windowOffers unlimited access to leading Australian and New Zealand newspapers and the latest local, regional and national news. Combines the content from Fairfax Australia, Fairfax New Zealand, News Limited, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and APP newswires.
