Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Tips & Tricks For Doing Internet Research

Doing a simple Google search on the Internet is sure easy, but is not the most effective, or academic, method for research. You will learn how to properly research on the Internet and discover tricks to make your searching faster, more efficient, and more productive. You will visit two webpages below and answer the corresponding questions.

Instructions (READ THIS!!!)
Read the information provided on the links below. Then, answer the four Critical Thinking questions on a separate sheet of paper. Turn your paper into Ms. D when you are done.  Once you have finished this assignment you may continue gathering information for your persuasive essay. At this point, you may also conduct independent research on your topic/issue.

Links

Critical Thinking Questions
  1. What is the difference between hard and soft research?
  2. What is the Invisible Web?
  3. What should you be suspicious of when validating websites?
  4. List three or more useful commands/shortcuts you can use in a search engine to do more productive searches.

2 comments:

  1. Internet research is used by many to gather information on and study a particular subject using resources published on the Internet.So its nice to be shared with us.Thanks!
    Internet Research

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  2. Search Engine math area is very useful for peoples forInternet Research. Thanks for sharing your thinking.

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