Reflection. Week 1. 23 Oct 2008.
I have learnt to do research using the search facility internet today and was impressed with the features. The search engines given to us were Google (Advanced Search) and Scholar Google. Before even the lesson started today, I was not aware of the capabilities of the search engine like how they are able to play a part in our daily life.
It was proven that by using Scholar Google Search compared to the normal Google Search. The information given by the Scholar Google Search were more relevant and were being narrowed down. Instead of a hundred thousand searches, it was narrowed down to about six thousand searches in just about 0.26seconds! This is just how amazing internet is ! Not only that, to get more revelant searches closest to what you are finding, what we type in the search box is the crucial key.
In search engine, they are being programmed in such a way that when they are doing searches, they go for the keywords that are being typed in rather than searching every word in the sentence. Let's take the topic I'm doing on as an example.
Discuss the developments of AIDs/HIV research.
The keywords in this sentence are: developments, AIDs/HIV and research.
We can even use the synonyms of the keywords.
development - progress, growth, expansion, advance and increase.
research - study.
From there, we form into a sentence and put it into the search box.
Thus, typing keywords really do help a lot with our search for information.
We also make use of Boolean Operators in our search. By making use of
AND - Narrows down search by including both search phrases.
NOT - Broadens search by using either one of the search phrase.
OR - Narrows search by ignoring the keywords can searching the keywords in the brackets first.
Last and not least for the day, citing sources and doing bibliography is an essential part when comes to extracting part of the information, regardless whether it is from a book, website, an electronic journal or even a magazine ! Sure that we could extract information from the website but doing so would mean that we have to acknowledge the author by doing citation and bibliography. If we extract information without doing citation or bibliography, we could even be charged for plagarism.We will be using the APA style to do our citation.
We are also supposed to post our discussion in the public forum. As this is our first time posting on a public forum, we will need to be extremely cautious with our usage of words so that we will not offend or cause some conflicts on the discussion board. That means we have to re-read a nd edit the message we post everytime to ensure that it does not contain any offensive term.
I have posted one up in the following :
AIDs/HIV forum
It was proven that by using Scholar Google Search compared to the normal Google Search. The information given by the Scholar Google Search were more relevant and were being narrowed down. Instead of a hundred thousand searches, it was narrowed down to about six thousand searches in just about 0.26seconds! This is just how amazing internet is ! Not only that, to get more revelant searches closest to what you are finding, what we type in the search box is the crucial key.
In search engine, they are being programmed in such a way that when they are doing searches, they go for the keywords that are being typed in rather than searching every word in the sentence. Let's take the topic I'm doing on as an example.
Discuss the developments of AIDs/HIV research.
The keywords in this sentence are: developments, AIDs/HIV and research.
We can even use the synonyms of the keywords.
development - progress, growth, expansion, advance and increase.
research - study.
From there, we form into a sentence and put it into the search box.
Thus, typing keywords really do help a lot with our search for information.
We also make use of Boolean Operators in our search. By making use of
AND - Narrows down search by including both search phrases.
NOT - Broadens search by using either one of the search phrase.
OR - Narrows search by ignoring the keywords can searching the keywords in the brackets first.
Last and not least for the day, citing sources and doing bibliography is an essential part when comes to extracting part of the information, regardless whether it is from a book, website, an electronic journal or even a magazine ! Sure that we could extract information from the website but doing so would mean that we have to acknowledge the author by doing citation and bibliography. If we extract information without doing citation or bibliography, we could even be charged for plagarism.We will be using the APA style to do our citation.
We are also supposed to post our discussion in the public forum. As this is our first time posting on a public forum, we will need to be extremely cautious with our usage of words so that we will not offend or cause some conflicts on the discussion board. That means we have to re-read a nd edit the message we post everytime to ensure that it does not contain any offensive term.
I have posted one up in the following :
AIDs/HIV forum
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6:20 PM
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