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Using the Internet for research

Using the Internet for research. Search strategies. Need to consider exactly what information you are looking for. Search Strategies. Break it down to key concepts Get correct spellings Consider how words can be put together using BOOLEAN operators AND, OR, NOT

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Using the Internet for research

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  1. Using the Internet for research

  2. Search strategies • Need to consider exactly what information you are looking for

  3. Search Strategies • Break it down to key concepts • Get correct spellings • Consider how words can be put together using BOOLEAN operators • AND, OR, NOT • BOOLEAN operators should be typed in ALL CAPS

  4. Professional vs. personal • (~) tilde – indicates you are working with personal subdirectory and personal Webpage. Ex. http://www.people.virginia.edu/~sbk8q1>

  5. Truncate the address • -delete a folder or section from the address • EX. • http://www.mskajder.com/romeo/lesson>

  6. Search Engines • Searches its own internal database of Web sites, not every site on the Internet • Google uses a mathematical formula to rank a Web page based on the number of “important” pages that link to it.

  7. Meta-searches • Provide a quick way to determine which engines best match students’ needs in terms of research. • Don’t crawl Web or maintain a database of Web pages. • Acts as middle agent, passing on a query to the major search engines and then returning the results. • EX. www.dogpile.com • www.c4.com • www.metacrawler.com • www.profusion.com

  8. When using the Internet you need to be… • Capable of asking good questions about data in order to covert the data into information and eventually into insight. • Need to analyze information about authorship, content, navigability, point of view, purpose, and related links. • Slow down when online!!!

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