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DISCUSSION RESPONSES:
How Does One Deal with Doing Research on a Topic Like
"Adulteration and the Meaning of Tourism????
AND A Couple of Other Topics and Some Research Guides to Help with Them
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The topic of Adulteration and the Meaning of Tourism came up for a lively
sharing of thoughts and ideas about this topic on a tourism discussion
group. I shared unrelated thoughts about finding and researching topics
containing jargon as part of the labeling of the subject in a post to that
list that follows below.
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This is not in any sense a criticism of any part of this discussion. I
just found myself surprised and bemused by this strange juxtaposition of
words. Adulteration (can you say food products) is not expected to be
found in conjunction with tourism, let alone meaning of tourism, but it is
a catchy way of labeling an issue.
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I decided to check a few databases and see what this combination of
concepts produced in the literature and here are my results.
Tight search
adulteration AND "meaning of tourism"
Relaxed Version
adulteration AND meaning AND tourism
Google Scholar Tight
http://tinyurl.com/zmd3ndf
Google Scholar Relaxed
http://tinyurl.com/hd6vma8
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The above is a great example of how a slight change in a search can
produce a radical difference in the number and ratio of relevant to not so
relevant sources in those results, but given the low level of results in
the "tight search", there may be some usable or even good sources in the
"relaxed search".
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Google Books Tight
https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&q=adulteration+AND+%22meaning+of+tourism%22
Looks like an odd meaning of adulteration has been found in these results
causing a strange and irrelvant result.
Google Books Relaxed
http://tinyurl.com/zaerwas
This looks much more probative.
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Temple Summon Search Tight
http://tinyurl.com/h3vbyue
Much better than Google Books Tight
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Temple Summon Search Relaxed
http://tinyurl.com/jjbuuux
Source Types
Book / eBook (2,408) Include Exclude
Book Chapter (71) Include Exclude
Book Review (8) Include Exclude
Conference Proceeding (1) Include Exclude
Dissertation/Thesis (2) Include Exclude
Government Document (57) Include Exclude
Journal Article (92) Include Exclude
Magazine Article (1) Include Exclude
Market Research (1) Include Exclude
Newspaper Article (7) Include Exclude
Reference (8) Include Exclude
Report (13)
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Now if a student visited my office with this wording of this topic, I
would search just these ways to see if a paper could be supported with a
reasonable literature review in quality and quantity of relevant sources.
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In this case the next step would be to think hard about the other words
that could be used in a search to find what is meant by adulteration in
this context and come up with a better group of relevant content. In the
meantime get those pens, keyboards and journal or book submission letters
going as, in terms of publications, you folks may have a virgin topic
to explore and get out into the academic media.
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Now if you folks will excuse an off topic for tourism subject, I posted
last week, (it is Sunday already, where did the rest of the weekend go!!!)
a discussion about searching that may be useful to you, your students and
your colleagues at the link below.
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[Educator-Gold] SPORTS MEDICINE : DATABASE SEARCH RESULTS : DATABASES:
SEARCHING: TECHNIQUE : DATBASES: Databases for Searching Sports Medicine
Databases
http://tinyurl.com/zgfkjns
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By the way, if you follow the links to my research guide in this post to
SCIMAGO, you will find an excellent list for both tourism and for
hospitality and other lists related to tourism of the top journals in each
field you explore based on Scopus criteria.
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I also have a new and under constuction bibliography on Public Spaces and
Gender which is still getting journal article citations added but has
plenty of books and articles already cited. Furthermore, the link of each
item in this bibliography takes one in this guide section to a search of
the title in either Google Books or Google Scholar making each entry link
into a bibliography of sources about the term content of the book title.
http://guides.temple.edu/research-papers/public-spaces-and-gender
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Additional Guide Content of Possible Interest
RESEARCH PAPER TOPIC : Public Spaces and Gentrification
http://guides.temple.edu/research-papers/public-spaces-and-gentrification
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Zika Virus
http://guides.temple.edu/zika/zika
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RESEARCH GUIDES : WRITING SKILLS, RESEARCH SKILLS : DATABASE SEARCHING
SKILLS : LIFE AND EMPLOYMENT TOOLS AND SKILLS FROM RESEARCH GUIDES
BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND WEBLIOGRAPHIES
http://guides.temple.edu/research-papers/skills
Emailed comments regarding any of the above resources are welcome.
Enjoy what is left of the weekend.
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END OF THE POST
Thought
Scholars, academicians, professors and writers often teach and write using
a very specialized and jargon filled discourse. Much can be gained by
these folks in terms of increased audience and improved understanding if
they define all of these specialized terms with plain English equivalents.
In so doing the reader will benefit by attaching these conversations or
publications to the related discourse from other fields on this very topic
that has similar content but is known under other labels
RESOURCE
PLAIN ENGLISH WRITING:
Plain English Writing Books and Database Search Results
http://guides.temple.edu/plain-english
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Also keep in mind that plane English would be the kind of discussions
stewardesses and pilots have with each other and with passengers, my guess
is that there is a lot of winging it going on with it in this arena.
By the way, arena is one search term that will kill a searcher looking for
sports facilities. Consider this phrase and others like it: "in the
arena of public opinion". One must always, when searching, think about
additional meanings of all words used as that will create noise in search
results. One also gets extra points for correct spelling as words
incorrectly spelled in searches, we all do it, create potential havic with
search results.
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Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
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