Transcript Composition ii - Cecelia Munzenmaier: Online Portfolio

Finding Sources
An Overview
Remember Hansel and Gretel?
1. Breadcrumb to the original
Paula Begoun points out in her book
Don't Go Shopping For Hair-Care
Products Without Me that salon
shampoos don't necessarily have better
formulas (“Shampoo Reviews,” 2006).
1. Breadcrumb to the original
(“Shampoo Reviews,” 2006)
References
Shampoo reviews. (2006). Retrieved
December 24, 2006, from the ConsumerSearch
Web site: http://www.consumersearch.com/
www/family/shampoo-reviews/index.html
1. Breadcrumb to the original
domain
folders
document
http://www.consumersearch.com
www/family/shampoo-reviews
index.html
1. Breadcrumb to the original
2. Breadcrumb from original
Paula
Begoun
To find out what the best shampoos are, we turned to
the excellent book, Don't Go Shopping For Hair-Care
Products Without Me. We also read excellent articles at
the Web sites Which? Online and Choice Online, and
Good Housekeeping magazine, as well as consumer
contributions to opinion sites like Epinions. Consumer
Reports magazine has a brief article on shampoo
ingredients from January of 2004…. An earlier
Consumer Reports article from 2000 is much more
comprehensive and well done, but is too old to include
more recent shampoos (“Shampoo Reviews,” 2006).
2. Breadcrumb from original
3. Narrow search (709 results)
3. Narrow search (252 results)
3. Narrow search (79 results)
3. Narrow search—tips
1. First tip
3. Narrow search—tips
4. Use Advanced Search features.
4. Broaden search—tips
1. Use fewer search terms
2. Search for related subjects
4. Broaden search—tips
3. Use a ~ to get Google to find
synonyms of your search term.
4. Broaden search—tips
4. Use a clustering search engine.
• Kartoo.com
• Clusty.com
• Vivisimo.com
4. Broaden search—tips
3. Use more than one search engine.
• Peer-reviewed articles
• Scholar.google.com
• FindArticles.com
• Metasearch engines
• Metacrawler.com
• Ixquick.com
• Vivisimo.com
• Natural language
(Ask.com)
5. Keywords matter
Compare results
• Revolving door
• Recidivism
• “Revolving door” prison
5. Keywords matter
Compare results
• “What do babies know?”
• Infant cognition
6. Where should I search?
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World Wide Web
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EBSCO
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Current
Unregulated
Access to “hidden web”
Edited
Other sources
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Live experts
Raw data
Books
6. Where have I been?
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Breadcrumb your path.
Keep track of where you found information.
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Email articles or links to yourself.
Print out valuable information.
Use technology.
• Save EBSCO searches.
• Set up EBSCO alerts.
• FurlIt (www.furl.net)