Let's explore the following topic:
Discuss how information communication technology has significantly changed the delivery of higher education in South Africa during the past decade.
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Identify the main keywords or concepts for the topic:
Discuss how information communication technology has significantly changed the delivery of higher education in South Africa post 2020.
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Find related terms (synonyms, narrower terms, broader terms) for each of the keywords:
NB: This is necessary when you do not find enough results from you first, basic search!
Information communication technology
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higher education
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South Africa
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post 2020
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Information communications technology
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Tertiary education
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Cape Town / Gauteng / Northern Cape
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2020-2022 / past 3 years / post Covid-19
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ICT or ICTs
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Universities
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Build a search string with the keywords identified:
1. Use Phrase Searches " "
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Use double quotes to enclose a phrase in order to search for string of words together (instead of a single word)
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i.e. “information communication technologies”, "higher education"
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2. Use Boolean Operators AND, OR, NOT
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Use the AND operator to join each of your different concepts together
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i.e. “information communication technologies” AND “higher education” AND “South Africa”
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Use the OR operator to connect similar words within a concept - expand your results
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i.e. (“higher education” OR “tertiary education” OR university)
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Use the NOT operator to limit your results
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i.e. “higher education” NOT “basic education”
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3. Use Truncation * and/or Wildcard ? # symbols
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Use the asterisk * truncation symbol to search for both singular and plural forms of a word
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i.e. communication* (will search for) communication, communications
and universit* (will search for) university, universities
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4. Use Proximity Searching ^n
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Use the caret symbol followed by a number ^n to ensure that search terms appear within a certain number of words of the other search
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i.e. "South Africa"^5
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5. Bring them all together!
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Now, try and put all of it all together into one search string.
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