Using the Computer in Your Research

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Using the Computer in Your Research

• Members
• 9410107A ??? ltArrian gt
• 9510903A ??? ltMichellegt
• 9510905A ??? ltVickygt

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Computers and the research paper

• By Arrian

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

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The Internet
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The World Wide Web
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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 files address on the Internet

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5b-3 Understanding Internet address

• http//www.wretch.cc/blog/palapie
• http// ?protocol
• www.wretch.cc ?name of the host
• /blog/palapie ?document path

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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

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Researching with search engines

• A search engine is a program.

Type Keywords
Search
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Researching with search engines

• The results of the search ,called hits.

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5d-1 Boolean logic
Three logical operators The symbol
AND ()
OR (?)
NOT (-)
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5d-2 Finding a search engine
4,410,000,000
531,000,000
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5d-3 Educational search engine

• Education search engine ?www.searchengineguide.com
  /pages/education
• English server ? www.eserver.org
• Library of Congress ? www.loc.gov/index.html
• Searchedu ? www.searchedu.com
• The Universal Library ? tera-3.ul.cs.cmu.edu

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5d-4 Useful search engine
Name Web Address Coverage
Google www.google.com Complicated 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.
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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.

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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.

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5f. Evaluating Internet Sources
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Evaluating Internet Sources

• Where was the information found?
• Who wrote it?
• Who published it?
• What are the writers sources?

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Evaluating Internet Sources

• What kind of tone does the writer use?
• What does the writers contemporaries have to
  say?
• What is the writers motive?
• What is the context of the writers opinion?

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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)

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com--A commercial organization
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edu-- An educational institution
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gov -- A nonmilitary government agency
or department
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mil -- The military
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net -- A network administrator
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org -- A nonprofit organization
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Evaluating Internet Sources

• Who wrote it?
• Who published it?
• What are the writers sources?
• What kind of tone does the writer use?
• What is the writers motive?

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• 5g. Running a search

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• 5h.Useful internet sites
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http//etext.virginia.edu/relig.browse.html
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http//www.encyclopedia.com
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http//www.ipl.org
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http//www.refdesk.com
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http//www.mla.org/