Using the Computer in Your Research A Joanna A Mandy A Rita
Computers and research paper Writers are easy to revise their paper. Writers are easy get information to complete their research paper. Using 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 Trademark.html 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 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 IxQuick.com
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