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Internet Research

Internet Research . It’s More Than Just Wikipedia! . What You Will Learn. How to use the research p rocess Effective search strategies How to evaluate a website What plagiarism is and how it can be avoided Helpful resources you can use . What You Already Know.

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Internet Research

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  1. Internet Research It’s More Than Just Wikipedia!

  2. What You Will Learn How to use the research process Effective search strategies How to evaluate a website What plagiarism is and how it can be avoided Helpful resources you can use

  3. What You Already Know When you are told to research or look up information, where do you go? • Google • Bing • Wikipedia

  4. But Did You Know… • Google and other search engines are in business to make money, and that means bumping the ad-driven sites to the top of the page. • Wikipedia can be a starting point for research, but even its creators make no guarantee of its validity. Anyone can contribute to Wikipedia!

  5. WHAT YOU DIDN’T KNOW When 300 middle school students were asked how they begin research, most of them answered that they simply type the question into Google. Not one out of 600 high school students surveyed could answer when asked how Google returns search results. Many said it was magic. Data provided by Erial

  6. The Research Process

  7. Locating Information The first two results are advertisements for companies trying to make money. NO INFORMATION! Google returned 483, 000,000 results. Really?! Google returns the NEWEST information first. Fresher isn’t always better when you’re doing research.

  8. Locating Information: Search Strategy Start general Try multiple combinations of words Use more precise language Look beyond the first five results! Now we’re going to get logical…

  9. Locating Information: Search Strategy When searching computer databases, the results are controlled by use of Boolean operators: OR, AND, and NOT Think about ice cream. Imagine all the possibilities a soft ice-cream machine could make if it offered chocolate, strawberry, and vanilla, and could mix together any and all combinations of those flavors.

  10. If you don't wish to try every possible flavor combination the soft ice cream machine offers, you must narrow your selection. In database searching AND narrows your search and links together different concepts. strawberry AND vanilla AND chocolate. Think of AND as “only if also” Images provided by Ithaca College Library

  11. In database searching OR expands a search by broadening the results. It is often used to combine like words or ideas. Strawberry OR vanilla OR chocolate Think of OR as “either or”

  12. In database searching, NOT is used to get rid of an unwanted concept. (Strawberry OR vanilla) NOT chocolate

  13. Let’s Practice! Using Boolean Operators

  14. Which of the following searches would return the most results? Football AND high school Football AND high school AND Ohio Which of the following searches would return the fewest results? children children OR toddlers How would you compose your search if you wanted to find vampire books but you HATE the Twilight series? Vampires AND Twilight Vampires OR Twilight (Vampires) NOT Twilight

  15. Locating Information—Databases • EBSCO Student Research Center 6-8 • EBSCO All Database Search • Academic Search Premier • Sweet Search • ERIC http://www.sweetsearch.com/# http://www.svlocal.org/staff/cgi-bin/homepage.pl?id=hslibrary

  16. Evaluating Websites …But everything on the Internet is true, right? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bufTna0WArc

  17. Think Like a Detective When using the Internet to find information, you should use the following criteria to determine whether it’s a source you want to use.

  18. Tips for Evaluating Websites • Be skeptical! • If the page has no author, editor, or publisher, it is probably NOT reliable • Look at domain names (.org, .com, .edu) • Information is only as good as its source • Always verify information with another source

  19. Plagiarism The Dangers of Copy and Paste Image obtained from Turnitin.com

  20. What? Plagiarism is: To steal and pass off the ideas or words of another as one's own To use another's work without crediting the source To present an idea or product as new that has been gathered from another source In other words, plagiarism is an act of fraud. It involves both stealing someone else's work and lying about it afterward.

  21. Why Shouldn’t You Plagiarize? Why? It’s WRONG. It’s becoming easier and easier for teachers and principals to detect plagiarism. In the time it takes you to plagiarize, you could probably finish the actual assignment. Whenever you cut and paste from a website, you cut and paste all the garbage from that website as well. You think that a Wikipedia article sounds like you? Dream on.

  22. What to Cite http://unitproj.library.ucla.edu

  23. Helpful Resources Plagiarism and Research Guide • http://unitproj.library.ucla.edu/col/bruinsuccess/ Helpful Research and Citation Guide http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/2/ Bibliography Maker • http://www.easybib.com/ Helpful Citation Machine • http://citationmachine.net/index2.php

  24. Some Final Tips and Tricks

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