Using the Computer in Your Research Members: A 楊佳翰 A 林夢寒 A 洪湘羚

Computers and the research paper By Arrian

Easy to transfer notes to your paper. Easy to turn in a paper. Easy to find the data you want.

The Internet

The World Wide Web

5b-1 Some Internet terms FTP – transferring files HTML – language of document on WWW HTTP – a computer uses to find a file ISP – company that sells access to the Internet URL – give a file’s address on the Internet

5b-3 Understanding Internet address  protocol  name of the hostwww.wretch.cc /blog/palapie  document path

Online resources Databases – easy for retrieval Electronic journals – serial publications can be accessed through the Internet OPACs – search by keyword on the web Blogs – personal website

Researching with search engines Researching with search engines A search engine is a program. Type KeywordsSearch

Researching with search engines Researching with search engines The results of the search,called “ hits. ”

5d-1 Boolean logic Three logical operators The symbol AND (＋)(＋) OR (︳)(︳) NOT (－)(－)

5d-2 Finding a search engine 4,410,000, ,000,000

5d-3 Educational search engine Education search engine  English server  Library of Congress  Searchedu  The Universal Library  tera-3.ul.cs.cmu.edu

5d-4 Useful search engine NameWeb AddressCoverage Google software; functions almost like a metasearch engine. AltaVista More than 4 billion web pages indexed Yahoo! Among the smallest search engines; high quality control.

5e-1 Usenet Shortage 1. No graphic and no sound. 2. Encounter profanity Advantage 1. Be gold mine of information on rare or esoteric topic. 2. Try to deal with the difficulty topic.

5e-2,5e-3 Listserv, Telnet and gopher Similar software manage the electronic mailing list of discussion groups. A protocol for connecting computers on the Internet. An old-fashion system of searching the Internet.

5f. Evaluating Internet Sources 5f. Evaluating Internet Sources

Where was the information found? Who wrote it? Who published it? What are the writer ’ s sources? Evaluating Internet Sources

What kind of tone does the writer use? What does the writer ’ s contemporaries have to say? What is the writer ’ s motive? What is the context of the writer ’ s opinion? Evaluating Internet Sources

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 (not educational or governmental)

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

Evaluating Internet Sources Who wrote it? Who published it? What are the writer ’ s sources? What kind of tone does the writer use? What is the writer ’ s motive?

5g. Running a search

5h.Useful internet sites

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