Using the Computer in Your Research

9410039A Joanna

9410041A Mandy

9410049A Rita

Computers and research paper

• Writers are easy to revise their paper.

• Writers are easy get information to complete their research paper.

• Using E-mail replaces the traditional submission of hard copy

• Students makes notes on their laptops instead of note cards.

1. The different ways of connecting the Internet.

2. What’s the difference between the

Internet and the World Wide Web?

Some Internet terms

FTP file transfer protocol

HTML hypertext markup language

HTTP hypertext transfer protocol

ISP Internet service provider

URL uniform resource locator

Understanding Internet address

http://www.loundy.com/JMLS-Trademark.ht

ml

Protocol Name of the host Documt path

Online resources

• Date bases

• Electronic journal

• Online public-accessing catalogs

(OPACs)

• Blogs

Search engines for research

Search Engine

• The program helps us to search specific words which relates to our topic.

• Type the keywords in box and click on search for our topic.

Is the keywords important?

Keywords is like the hit which helps us to find the results easily

Which are not the keywords?• Articles a / an / the / these• Prepositions of / in / to / on

Boolean logic

• Three logical operations

And (+)

Engine search the sources in which both terms occur

Or (∣)

Engine was told to search any of two or more

Not (-)

Exclude the term from the search

Search Engine • Three types of engines:

Manual Robotic Metasearch

Manual → Yahoo Robotic → Google Metasearch → MetaCrawler

Educational Search Engines

• www.eserver.org

• www.loc.gov/index.html

• www.searchedu.com

• Tera-3.ul.cs.cmu.edu

Other Parts of Internet • Usent

• Listerv

• Telnet

• Gopher

Evaluating Internet

sources

(1) Where was the information found

• com: A commercial organization

• edu: An educational institution

• gov: A nonmilitary government agency or department

• mil: The military

• net: A network administrator

• org: A nonprofit organization

(2) Who wrote it

material’s trustworthiness

(3) Who publishes it

Reporting’s objectivity

(4) What are the writer’s sources

Confirm it before you use

(5) What kind of tone does the writer use

Sincere > aggressive

(6) What do the writer’s contemporaries have to say

unique views on different contemporaries

(7) What is the writer’s motive

material’s accuracy

Running a search

experiment repeatedly

Useful Internet sites

• etext.virginia.edu/relig.browse.html

• www.encyclopedia.com

• www.ipl.org

• IxQuick.com

• www.refdesk.com

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