Sunday, September 9, 2012
Subject of the week: Internet sources
Gathering information is probably the most frustrating and hardest part of writing a speech or an essay for me, so lets discuss how to do searches successfully. First you want to make sure the source is relevant to the keywords you type in. Also use meta search engines which will bring all the results together so you can look at everything at once. Use search engines like google or yahoo so they hunt through information for you. Web directories are also available which organize in lists so your able to narrow it down by category. There are many sources such as the deep web that holds special databases like the ones from the government. You can also use blogs which are updated weekly, but you want to make sure there is credibility in your sources so sometimes blogs aren't the best choice. To make searching the Internet easier just use all your resources. Remember there are many search engines google is not the only one.
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I find that gathering information can be frustrating as well. There is just so much information out there that it can be hard to narrow it down and find the most useful information. Making sure it is credible is the most important. There are so many sites that I have gone to in the past and find information that I think will work and then to find out that it's not legit, it can be even more frustrating. But I think that it is helpful to use different search engines as well. I get so used to just using the same one for everything that when you actually switch it's amazing how much more you can find. Good luck on your research.
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