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Blog #1: 12/07/10 How do we refine our searches with phrase searching?

When creating a search with one or more keywords, you might need to make it into a phrase because it might not give you the results you want. For example, if you type in the words "Japanese" and "Government" you would conduct a search with results containing only the words "Japanese" and "Government" in it. The results might show up with something about the Japanese language, or the American government, but you want search results about the Japanese Government. So, in order to create a search that will give you results about the Japanese Government is by typing the words "Japanese Government" in the search  box.



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Blog#2: 11/30/10

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 wonder wheels and how they are useful. Knowing about the wonder wheel helps make researching broad topics, like music, crime, etc. easier to research because the wonder wheel gives us sub topics about the broad topic so we can learn a little about what the topic is about. The wonder wheel is a wheel where a topic will be in the middle and there would be subcategories that relate to the main topic shooting out of the circle in the middle. This will make researching topics in other classes easier because if we have to research a topic that we know nothing about the wonder wheel will help us learn a little about the topic by giving us the main ideas that are related to the topic.

Blog #1, 11/29/10

On November 19th, we learned about the 4 ways to identify the right keywords. The first way was to study the topic you researched and pull out potential keywords. Another way to start it off is to summarize your topic in a sentence and pull out the keywords from there. If really necessary, define the keywords and find general background information on your topic if you do not understand what your researching. The last way to identify the right keywords is to find synonyms and related terms for the keywords, so you can expand your research results.

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Blog #1: 11/22/10

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 search engines make the search you require them to do and notifies us how to use a search engine properly. Many search engines perform different kinds of searches based on the type of basic information you provide. Before you make a search in the search engine, you should always view the help page and learn how to use it so you know how to work the search engine properly and effectively. If you are typing in a effective and specific statement in one search engine, there's always a chance it would not work as good in another search engine. If you want to find a variety of different types of results related to your topic, consider changing the wording in your phrase or change the keywords. To make researching easier in the future, you might want to take notes on how good search engines give you information, so you can use that search engine consistently.

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.