Blog #1: 11/17/10

How is the information you learned applicable to your other class assignments? How is this class helping you with research in your other classes?

 

 Today we learned about how to put in the correct type of keywords into a search tool to create a successful research. By identifying keywords, we are making our topic transform into smaller bits of information that will help the Internet search tool research information on your topic effectively. These words are the words that will appear on the results page when you type in into a Internet search tool. There are certain words, like a, an, and, the etc. that will be very not useful to your research. Those words are called stop words. Stop words are articles (a,an,the, etc.), Conjunctions/Prepositions (And, or, but, in of, from, than, etc.), and verbs/pronouns (this, that, these, those, is, be, see, do etc.). The computer cannot comprehend these words, so when you enter them into a Internet search tool, they will not show up on the results page.