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Using the Computer in Your Research

Using the Computer in Your Research. 9410039A Joanna 9410041A Mandy 9410049A Rita. Computers and research paper. Writers are easy to revise their paper. Writers are easy get information to complete their research paper.

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Using the Computer in Your Research

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  1. Using the Computer in Your Research 9410039A Joanna 9410041A Mandy 9410049A Rita

  2. Computers and research paper • Writers are easy to revise their paper. • Writers are easy get information to complete their research paper. • Using E-mail replaces the traditional submission of hard copy • Students makes notes on their laptops instead of note cards.

  3. 1. The different ways of connecting the Internet. • What’s the difference between the Internet and the World Wide Web?

  4. Some Internet terms FTP file transfer protocol HTML hypertext markup language HTTP hypertext transfer protocol ISP Internet service provider URL uniform resource locator

  5. Understanding Internet address http://www.loundy.com/JMLS-Trademark.html Protocol Name of the host Documt path

  6. Online resources • Date bases • Electronic journal • Online public-accessing catalogs (OPACs) • Blogs

  7. Search engines for research

  8. 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.

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. Search Engine • Three types of engines: Manual Robotic Metasearch Manual → Yahoo Robotic → Google Metasearch → MetaCrawler

  12. Educational Search Engines • www.eserver.org • www.loc.gov/index.html • www.searchedu.com • Tera-3.ul.cs.cmu.edu

  13. Other Parts of Internet • Usent • Listerv • Telnet • Gopher

  14. Evaluating Internetsources

  15. (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

  16. (2) Who wrote it material’s trustworthiness

  17. (3) Who publishes it Reporting’s objectivity

  18. (4) What are the writer’s sources Confirm it before you use

  19. (5) What kind of tone does the writer use Sincere > aggressive

  20. (6) What do the writer’s contemporaries have to say unique views on different contemporaries

  21. (7) What is the writer’s motive material’s accuracy

  22. Running a search experiment repeatedly

  23. Useful Internet sites • etext.virginia.edu/relig.browse.html • www.encyclopedia.com • www.ipl.org • IxQuick.com • www.refdesk.com

  24. The End Thank you for your attention

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