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Re se arching on the
Inte rne t
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How do Search
?Eng ine s WorkLaunche s
Results
( ) Se arch “Spide r” or Robot , looks for ke y words, , . imag e s vide os e tc on
. webpage s The crite ria is de te rmined by the se arch
items and parame te rs put in .by the use r
The way the se arch is done by e ach kind of se arch
( , , .) e ng ine Goog le Yahoo e tc . is a corporate s e cre t
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Be spe c ific w ith your language
Narrow down the topic as far as you can
• .Se le c t synonyms and othe r word forms
: Like I want to find info about popular
me thods of los ing we ight.
• Popular: / / / common favorite favored
de s ired
• ( )Method s : ( ), ( ), ( ), way s te chnique s proce s s e s
( )tac tic s
• Los ing : , , , lose reduc ing reduce reduction
• we ight: , , fat die ting die t
How do I ge t re ady to
? se arch
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How do I improve my
?se arche s
., 2007, , As of Feb by one e s timate
30 .the re are Billion webpage s :// . . / / / .http www boute ll com newfaq misc s ize ofweb html
: Eas ie s t way narrow down a se arch
use quotation marks
• , On Goog le ille g al drug use 673 ,000 re sults in
re sults
, On Goog le “ille g al drug use ” 346 ,000 re sults in
re sults
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million
, , Bas ically in the se cond case Goog le is looking for
. all webpage s whe re the words appear tog e the r In
, the firs t ins tance the words may appear anywhe re
... - -on the pag e not ne ce s sarily s ide by s ide .
( , It can be e ven more dramatic depending on the
. = 14 .3 subje c t A se arch for Japane se Education
; = 141 , 000 .)million hits “Japane se education” hits
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Anothe r way to
improve .se arche s
1. Use Advance Se arch
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2. Boole an Se arche s
This is much the same as the advanced se arch e xcept you do
the re fining w ithin the se arch.space: Webs ite
:// . . / .http www inte rne ttutorials ne t boole an html
The re are othe r se arch eng ine s
.be s ide s Goog le and Yahoo
:// . 2 . / /http se arch carrot org s table se arch Carrot is a
- . me ta se arch eng ine It s e arche s many othe r se arch
. eng ine s as we ll
:// . .http infomine ucr edu/ / -Scholarly highe r education
.based re se arch s ite
:// . . / / .http www multcolib org homework sochc html A
!! .whole bunch of topics With re se arch s ite s
:// . .http www lii org / . Librarian Che cked s ite s Scre ened
and safe .
:// . .http en wikipedia org - , - , Not an end all be all but a
. ( good place to s tart Che ck the re source s and othe r
.) webs ite s and furthe r re ading se ctions at the end
:// . . / / _http commons wikimedia org w iki Main Page This is
. , the Wiki Commons are a FInd public domain image s
.e tc
? Othe rs .Live com .Ask com ?Do you have a favorite
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Colle c ting the
information
• Deve lop a dig ital s crapbook as a place
to ke ep webpage s , fac ts , ide as ,
re actions . as you do your re se arch
Microsoft Word has a Notebook view
whe re you can ke ep information as you
. trave l online You can even le ave
yourse lf an audio note .
• Keep a Image folde r where you can
. download and ke ep image s Also ke ep
scre en shots to remind you what you
. want to remembe r ( More on this in a
.)bit
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How to quickly gathe r
.information
Copy and pas te URL of webpage you
. want to remembe r into your Word file
Take a scre e n shot of some information
. you want to save into your image folde r
( - -4 Shift Command will allow to take a
“scre e n shot” of a part of what you are
; looking at - -3Shift Command will take a
.) scre en shot of the whole scre e n The se
commands w ill place the image on the
de sktop whe re you rename it and place it
.in your Image folde r
Copy and pas te a block of mate rial from
a webpage so you can come back to it
late r to pull out mate rial to reword and
c ite .
Page e ight
-Note taking : How to ge t the
information from the webpage into a
from you can use to cre ate a re se arch
.pape r
Find a form that allow you to pick out
the words that re pre se nt the main ide as
. ( .)of the online information Se e ne xt s lide
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, Go through the artic le
divide the artic le into
se c tions and choose the
ke y words . The se are
words that are in bold
font or italic s . Or
appe ar in the / the s is
topic se ntence s at the
beg inning of
. parag raphs Or the
conc luding sente nce s of
.parag raphs
, As you scan the artic le
choos ing the se
, important words write
them down on the fOrm
. like the on the le ft Use
as many forms as you
.ne ed
’ Afte r you ve jotte d down the , keys words above use this
space to summarize in a s ente nce or two what the
key words might mean as a . larg e r ide a ( Be sure to note
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