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- LESSON 2.2: ARTICLE THEMES ACCESS
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- Let's look at the "Article Themes" file right now!
- Hence, invoke the file, look at it a few seconds,
- then return here. <LK104>
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- WHAT ARE ARTICLE THEMES?
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- You saw five separate headings, what we
- specifically call "article themes," starting with
- "Beverages." Think of the themes as the broadest or
- most general labels of topics, subjects, ideas,
- etc. that are contained in the network.
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- In the the "Article Themes" file, these labels -
- themes - reside at the top of a hierarchy which
- leads to subthemes or sub topics placed in
- hierarchical order.
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- Invoke the links next to the themes, and you will
- see a screen appear listing SUB TOPICS or subthemes
- connected to the themes mentioned in file <LK104>.
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- EXAMPLE
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- For example, invoke <LK104>, then invoke the link
- next to "Beverages." Linger there a few seconds and
- return here. (As an alternative, invoke the latter
- from here <LK151>.
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- What happened? If all went well, you saw a screen
- titled "Beverages - article themes." In the bottom
- half of the screen, you saw "SUB TOPICS:" and a
- listing beginning with "Alcoholic beverages <LK172>"
- Proceed to that file from here and then return.
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- What happened? If all went well, you saw a list
- with only one heading under "Associated topics."
- That heading is called "Taste." Invoke this
- "associated topic" from here and return: <ABS07>
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- WHAT DOES ASSOCIATED TOPICS MEAN?
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- "Associated topics" refers to an important idea,
- issue, or topic which is dealt with in abstracted
- articles. (An "abstract" is NOT the article itself,
- only a summary of what its contents are or what it
- is about.) The topic is called "associated" because
- the topic is closely connected to the topic
- mentioned at the top of the screen in information
- contained by an abstract. Hence, when you invoked
- the file in the brackets, you reached an abstract
- of an article which is largely or in part about the
- topic you invoked AND the topic found on the top or
- first line of the screen.
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- Look at the node again <LK172> for a second, then
- return here.
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- In more specific search terms, this means that the
- link for the topic of "taste" under the broader
- heading/label of "Alcoholic beverages" leads to an
- abstract about taste in an alcoholic beverage, in
- this case, vodka, as you would know when you
- invoked the link here. (Repeat this again for
- review: <ABS07>)
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- When you looked at the abstract, you may have
- noticed another highlighted link called "TASTE."
- This is a different type of link, which is
- discussed in the next lesson. Take a breather!
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