Competency Six: Databases-Project Muse & the Citation Peral Growing Search

I started with an article titled Defense Tactics: Combating Censorship by Diane Chapman. I found this article entering the search terms SCHOOL and CENSORSHIP. This is the third article of 2201. I chose this article to start with because I am interested in combating censorship at my own school where I have personally seen two books banned from our campus.


I added BOOKS or INTERNET and increase my hits to over 1700.


Looking at the references for the above article, I came across the term FREE SPEECH and added it to my query terms. I am now up to almost 2700 hits.

For my final search, I added CHILDREN"S LITERATURE or YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE, also pulled from the resources listed for the original article. I know have over 7000 hits.


I'm not sure I understand the point of this particular search. It seems to me that I would be better served creating a building block search based on the key terms from the original article. I understand building up useful texts, but I think the building block technique would net me more useful documents than this search does.