using the internet for research
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Using the Internet for Research. Angela Benson, Assistant Professor University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign March 17, 2005. Agenda. Searching Researching Citing Information Collecting Data. Searching Activity. How tall was the World Trade Center? - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Using the Internet for Research
Angela Benson, Assistant ProfessorUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
March 17, 2005
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Agenda
SearchingResearchingCiting InformationCollecting Data
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Searching Activity
How tall was the World Trade Center?What percent of Illinois residents fell below
the poverty level in 2000?Was President Clinton impeached?How is breast cancer treated?Your question--
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Search Strategy Questions
What do you want to know?What are the key concepts or topics?What keywords define those
concepts/topics? (include synonyms)What is the relationship between the
keywords? How does the search tool you’re using
require you to specify that relationship?
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Searching
Searching Google: http://www.google.com Askjeeves: http://www.askjeeves.com
Evaluating sites Purpose Author, Publisher Intended Audience Perspective Currency Accuracy Links
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Researching
Invisible Web at http://www.invisible-web.net/
Librarians at http://lii.org/Infomine: http://infomine.ucr.edu/UI Library Online at
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/index.html
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Citing Information
Style Guides APA at http://www.apastyle.org/elecsource.html Georgetown at
http://www.library.georgetown.edu/internet/cite.htm Dartmouth at
http://www.dartmouth.edu/%7Esources/contents.html
Citation Managers EndNote at http://www.isiresearchsoft.com/ RefWorks at http://www.refworks.com/ Article about the two
http://www.istl.org/02-summer/article4.html
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Citing Information
Plagiarism Using ideas and expressions without citing the source
Why it’s easier on the Web Copy-and-paste Buying papers online
Identifying it Plagiarism at http://www.plagiarism.org
HTML (p. 7,8)
More information Duke U. at http://www.lib.duke.edu/libguide/citing.htm
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Collecting Data
Ethical and Legal Aspects of Human Subjects Research in Cyberspace http://www.aaas.org/spp/sfrl/projects/intres/main.htm
Surveys UIUC Web Services
http://www.opa.uiuc.edu/webservices/ Survey Monkey
http://www.surveymonkey.com/
Interviews, Focus groups, Journals Blogger
http://www.blogger.com http://bensonuiuc.blogspot.com/
Email, bulletin board, mailing lists
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Tutorials for further study
Berkeley at http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html
Albany at http://library.albany.edu/internet/