how to research on the web and document what you use

How to Research on the Weband Document What you Use

Popular Search Engines

• www.yahoo.com

• www.excite.com

• www.ask.com

• www.google.com

• www.webcrawler.com

• www.yahooligans.com

Other Places to Search

• 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

• www.ivilliage.com

• www.health.yahoo.com

• www.mywebmd.com

• www.mayoclinic.com

• www.cnn.com/health

• www.discoveryhealth.com

Health Specific Search Engines

• 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

• 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