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How do Search

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Results

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. webpage s The crite ria is de te rmined by the se arch

items and parame te rs put in .by the use r

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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

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How do I improve my

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use quotation marks

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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

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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

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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 .

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-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

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’ 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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