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CLIP Quick Guide: Virtual Handout Jirout 2025

Activity: Search Strategies

Each Table will be assigned a specific scenario as well as a specific skill to use. Please use the scenario given to your row to complete the Search Strategies worksheet given to you. Your row will have to "present" on their scenario, discussing their strategies used in their searches.

Table/Scenario 1:  You have been assigned a paper on the biography "Deep Under Cover" and its literary references.  Your professor didn’t specify what kind of sources you have to use but did warn you to make sure they were all reputable.

Skill: Advanced Search and evaluation

Table/Scenario 2:  You have been asked to write a paper discussing the plot of "Deep Under Cover," particularly addressing moving to a foreign country and becoming a spy from a young person's perspective. Your professor wants you to find nonfiction material from the Teaching Materials Center or Main Collection in Memorial Library that also address similar stories.

Skill: Format and location filters

Table/Scenario 3 You are writing a paper on the publishing of "Deep Under Cover."  Your professor wants you to support your argument with quotes from review articles from the first year of its publication

Skill: Format and publication date filters

Table/Scenario 4:  You are writing a paper discussing the history of espionage and different types of spying. Your professor wants you to find books in Memorial Library .

Skill: Boolean, format filter and availability