Internet Search
- Due: March 11
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- Format:
- Please type and submit via email, hand-written
assignments will not be accepted.
Your email subject line: Week 9
Assignment
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- Your email Journal subject line: Week 9 - Email
Journal
Instructions:
- Part 1
- After reviewing Chapter 11, please identify the best two Web sites or
other Internet sources you find for your topic and write an MLA citation and
an annotation for each source. Include comments about the credibility and
reliability of the source, as well as its relevance to your research in the
annotation.
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- Part 2
- Choose one Web site from Part 1 and use the evaluation checklist to do
an in-depth evaluation. Comment on each of the 6 sections of the checklist:
purpose, authority, accuracy, objectivity, currency, and coverage.
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- Part 3
- Please respond:
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What search engine and strategy did you use to find the best WWW or
Internet source?
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What do you think the greatest advantages and disadvantages of the World
Wide Web are for research?
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How appropriate do you think the Internet is as a source of information
for your topic? Are other kinds of information that are better? Why or why
not.
- Extra Credit
- Choose a search tool from the Search the
Web page. Using help pages and your search experience, design a search tip
sheet that would help someone learn to use that search engine effectively.
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- Remember to explain what that search engine is good for and how the search
works. Give hints on how to do a "Boolean" search and other features of the
search engine. This assignment should be about a page with appropriate
headings.
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