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A process to find correct terms for my research using Google Scholar.
Correct Terms You need to use the correct terms for your field of research
so that your advisor, your colleagues, and the journal editors and reviewers can
understand your writing and trust your research. The Google Scholar website can
provide valuable information regarding the correct term. Google Scholar is
unique to academia which has a strong emphasis on accuracy. To use this process,
make sure you are on Google Scholar search and not on the regular Google
search. The steps to follow on Google Scholar include step 1 search the word
or phrase you're seeking more information about. Step 2 analyze the
number of results found. Step 3 search similar but different terms. Step 4
compare the results to the original phrase. Step 5
use additional hints. Step 6 reach a conclusion.
Step one search the word or phrase you're seeking more information about.
Type the word within quotes. Step two analyze the number of results found. Find
this information underneath the search menu in this example guide valve is in
quotes. Step 3 search similar but different terms, again use quotes in your
search. The comparative example in quotes is pilot valve. Step 4 compare the
results to the original phrase. What number of results were found? If you have
low results, this may be an incorrect term in your field. If you have high
results, it might have several different uses.
Step 5 use additional hints provided by Google Scholar. Asking this question may
help: based on the country of publication and other journal data would you expect
the English in this journal to be native English? Step 6
reach a conclusion. Between the phrases guide valve and pilot valve which would
likely be correct based upon the number of the results?
Pilot valve is probably the correct term.
Example number two of the steps to follow on Google Scholar. Search
infection measures in quotes. We can see there were 1,660 results found.
Search infection control as a comparative term. Also search infection
prevention as a comparative term. Compare the results. Infection measures has 1660
results. Infection control has 666,000 results. Infection prevention
has 73,100 results. The first result item for infection measures on
Google Scholar is not published out of the USA. However, both the first results
of infection control and the first result of infection prevention are
published out of the USA. Because the last two examples are published out of
the United States, it is a higher likelihood that native speakers wrote
the research. Reach a conclusion. We can conclude that infection control is
correct and commonly used in academic writing, and infection prevention could
be correct but is used less frequently. To begin my third example, I'm going to
type in quotes the search term surface validity. I'm going to see
that this term renders 870 results. Now I will search a comparative term face
validity, in quotes, and this search term renders about 275 thousand results. If I
was analyzing additional information provided by Google Scholar on the term
surface validity, I would notice that on the very first citation provided that
the term surface and validity are separated out with an em-dash. This is
also true on the third example where surface and validity are separated by
another form of punctuation called the colon. Both would be indicative of the
fact that surface validity is not commonly used as a search term together. Reach a
conclusion. With the search phrase surface validity giving me 885 results
and the other term face validity giving me 277,000 results, in addition,
considering the information I discovered when I examined the results, I can
conclude that face validity is likely the correct term to use.
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