How to Research on the Web and Document What you Use

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How to Research on the Weband Document What you
Use
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Popular Search Engines

• www.yahoo.com
• www.excite.com
• www.ask.com
• www.google.com
• www.webcrawler.com
• www.yahooligans.com

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Other Places to Search

• www.msn.com
• www.time.com
• www.cnn.com
• www.kyvl.org
• www.washingtonpost.com
• www.usatoday.com

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Wording Your Phrase

• Dos
• Use Quotation marks to get more specific results
• Use and, or, not with your quotations to narrow
  your results

• Donts
• Use articles, conjunctions, etc in your phrase
  (i.e. if, the, an)
• Narrow your search so much that you get no results

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Health Specific Search Engines

• www.ivilliage.com
• www.health.yahoo.com
• www.mywebmd.com
• www.mayoclinic.com
• www.cnn.com/health
• www.discoveryhealth.com

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Health Specific Search Engines

• www.healthAtoZ.com
• www.healthscout.com/healthcentral
• www.menshealth.com
• www.prevention.com
• www.healthanswers.com

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Things to Note when Researching on the Web

• Information on the web can change daily. (print
  out what you find)
• Ask yourself Who sponsors this site and why?
  (Is the site/ this source credible? Are they
  biased?)
• Are you finding supporting information in other
  resources?

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MLA Documentation

• Professional Website
• ESPN.com. (name of the website) 12 Nov. 1999.
  (when the website was last updated) ESPN Internet
  Ventures. (name of the page within the site) 24
  Nov. 1999 (when you accessed the website)
  http//espn.go.com. (websites address)

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MLA Documentation

• Article within a Website
• Devitt, Terry. (author of the article) Flying
  High. (article) The Why Files. (title of the
  website) 9 Dec 1999. (when the article was
  posted/pub) University of Wisconsin, Board of
  Regents. (who publishes the website) 4 Jan. 2000
  (when you accessed it) http//whyfiles.news.wisc.e
  du/shorties/kite.html. (the websites address)

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MLA Documentation

• Personal Website
• Hamilton, Calvin, J. (author of the website)
  Views of the Solar System. (name of the page) 12
  Nov. 1999 (date you accessed the site)
  http//solarviews.com/eng/homepage.htm.

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MLA Documentation

• Online Govt Document
• United States. (which govt) U.S. Census Bureau.
  (which govt agency) Poverty in the United
  States 1998. (title of the document) Sept.
  1999. (when the document was published) 12 Nov.
  1999 (when you accessed the document)
  http//www.census.gov/prod/99pubs/p60-207.pdf
  (website where you found the document)

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Review of MLA Information

• Name of the website/article/author
• When the website was published/posted
• When you accessed the website
• The websites address
• Publisher of the website