Practicing Database Search Skills

To get some practice in using the database search skills outlined in this tutorial, try searching on the following topic:

I want to find out how teenage characters have been portrayed in literature over the last thirty years in order to understand the effects of recent social change on the conception of teenage experience.

I. Start with a keyword search in the Fenwick Library Online Catalog using

as your search term.

From looking at the Library of Congress subject headings for the sources identified by this search, list two other subject heading terms that might be used instead of "teenager" (example: "youth"):

a.

b.

Try using these alternative terms as keyword search terms. How does this change the results that your search yields? Which is the most useful search term for "teenager" in the Fenwick Online Catalog.

Continue to Practice Lesson Part 2.