1. Using the Computer in Your Research Members: 9410107A 楊佳翰 9510903A 林夢寒 9510905A 洪湘羚

2. Computers and the research paper By Arrian

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

4. The Internet

5. The World Wide Web

6. 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

7. 5b-3 Understanding Internet address http://www.wretch.cc/blog/palapie http://  protocol www.wretch.cc  name of the hostwww.wretch.cc /blog/palapie  document path

8. 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

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

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

11. 5d-1 Boolean logic Three logical operators The symbol AND (＋)(＋) OR (︳)(︳) NOT (－)(－)

12. 5d-2 Finding a search engine 4,410,000,000 531,000,000

13. 5d-3 Educational search engine Education search engine  www.searchengineguide.com/pages/education English server  www.eserver.orgwww.eserver.org Library of Congress  www.loc.gov/index.htmlwww.loc.gov/index.html Searchedu  www.searchedu.comwww.searchedu.com The Universal Library  tera-3.ul.cs.cmu.edu

14. 5d-4 Useful search engine NameWeb AddressCoverage Google www.google.comComplicated software; functions almost like a metasearch engine. AltaVista www.altavista.com More than 4 billion web pages indexed Yahoo! www.yahoo.com Among the smallest search engines; high quality control.

15. 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.

16. 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.

17. 5f. Evaluating Internet Sources 5f. Evaluating Internet Sources

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

19. 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

20. 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)

21. com--A commercial organization

22. edu-- An educational institution

23. gov -- A nonmilitary government agency or department

24. mil -- The military

25. net -- A network administrator

26. org -- A nonprofit organization

27. 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?

28. 5g. Running a search

31. 5h.Useful internet sites

32. http://etext.virginia.edu/relig.browse.html

33. http://www.encyclopedia.com

34. http://www.ipl.org

35. http://www.refdesk.com

36. http://www.mla.org /