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THE 224:  Acting for Medical Simulation: Personal Accounts

Webcomics and Graphic Medicine

Expert Google Searching

Symbols
  • Use quotes " " around a phrase to search on an exact phrase - example: "total knee replacement"
  • Use the asterisk * symbol within quotes to look for an unknown or a wildcard - example: "total * replacement"
  • Use two periods .. to search within a range - example: baltimore population 2010..2016
  • Use  - as NOT to get rid of results you don't want
Operators
  • allintext: all words typed after this operator will be searched for in the website or document - example: allintext:health disparities city
  • allintitle: all words typed after this operator will be searched for in the title of the website or document - example: allintitle:health disparities city
  • OR: use this operator in all caps to find either of the words or phrases - example: (community OR neighborhood) health resources
  • site: use this operator to find a word or phrase within a specific type of domain - example: community health resources site:gov

DRAMA

 Date -- When was the resource published? Is it current? Does it matter?

 Relevance -- Does this resource relate directly to your project? Does it support  your ideas or is it counter to them? Who is the intended audience?

 Accuracy -- Is the information found here accurate? Does it fit with the other information that you are finding? Is the information biased in some way?

 Motivation -- Why was this resource produced? Is it to share information? Is it meant to persuade you to do or think something?

 Authority -- Who wrote/created the resource? Can you tell? What are their credentials? Can you tell who the publisher is?

 

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.  Hanna Primeau