Transcript How to Research the Web and Document What you Use

How to Research on the Web
and Document What you Use
Popular Search Engines
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www.yahoo.com
www.excite.com
www.ask.com
www.google.com
www.webcrawler.com
www.yahooligans.com
Other Places to Search
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www.msn.com
www.time.com
www.cnn.com
www.kyvl.org
www.washingtonpost.com
www.usatoday.com
Wording Your Phrase
• Do’s:
• Use Quotation
marks to get more
specific results
• Use and, or, not with
your quotations to
narrow your results
• Don’ts:
• Use articles,
conjunctions, etc in
your phrase (i.e. if,
the, an)
• Narrow your search
so much that you
get no results
Health Specific Search Engines
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www.ivilliage.com
www.health.yahoo.com
www.mywebmd.com
www.mayoclinic.com
www.cnn.com/health
www.discoveryhealth.com
Health Specific Search Engines
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www.healthAtoZ.com
www.healthscout.com/healthcentral
www.menshealth.com
www.prevention.com
www.healthanswers.com
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?
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.
(website’s address)
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.edu/shorties/kite
.html. (the website’s address)
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.
MLA Documentation
• Online Gov’t Document:
• United States. (which gov’t) U.S.
Census Bureau. (which gov’t 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)
Review of MLA Information
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Name of the website/article/author
When the website was published/posted
When you accessed the website
The website’s address
Publisher of the website