Monday, September 15, 2008

summarize web site

By using the word “COWS” help us to search the information easier.

C= Current Reference/ Print material
When we start searching, we always have to use current resources by books, website, and text book. We should start from keywords and narrow it down. Therefore, we can start from beginning. And we better to use online resources, too.
O=Online Resources
We better to use online resources to have more information. As we are going to use library databases, we have to have password, so we need to gat password form the library. Those are like search engines, but there are some information which are not on the world wide web, so we could have more information.
W=Webliographies (pre-selected web sites)
Webliographies is kind of the same with bibliography, but it is only web-site. Information of webliographies are chosen by some teachers, so it is very good information for students who started projects for searching.
S=Search Engines
As we learned about our subjects by searching information on books, websites, and recommended website by teachers, now we should move to search engine. Search engine has more information for our topic, so we could have more information for our subjects.

Introduction to search tools
Internet searching became very famous all over the world. We have to choose good websites and the best information for our subjects
・What is a search tool?
Our searching process will begin with using search engine. If we type the keyword, we will get information about what we typed for key word. There are many types d search engines.
・Meta-search engines: allow us to use more than one search engines.
・Special search engine: search narrower and specific information.
・Directory: choose topic and directory gives related information.
Google is the largest search engine in the world.
When you decided the topic, we have to use big search engine and start writing.

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