Internet Research Top Tips

Getting Started Use more than one search engine http://www.internettutorials.net/engines.html Select the wheat from the chaff by thinking about what you want. What are you looking for? Facts, opinions (anyone's opinion or an expert's), statistics, narratives of personal experience, eyewitness descriptions, new ideas, proven solutions, reference material? http://www.virtualsalt.com/evalu8it.htm Scan read your web page Use Apple+F to find the keyword in your results page

Use more than one search engine http://www.internettutorials.net/engines.html

Select the wheat from the chaff by thinking about what you want. What are you looking for? Facts, opinions (anyone's opinion or an expert's), statistics, narratives of personal experience, eyewitness descriptions, new ideas, proven solutions, reference material?

http://www.virtualsalt.com/evalu8it.htm

Scan read your web page

Use Apple+F to find the keyword in your results page

BEWARE… The Internet is a self-publishing medium. Not everything is accurate The Internet is a public noticeboard Everything, everything must be analyzed for its appropriateness Don’t rely on it solely for secondary research Remember to write down the URLs

The Internet is a self-publishing medium.

Not everything is accurate

The Internet is a public noticeboard

Everything, everything must be analyzed for its appropriateness

Don’t rely on it solely for secondary research

Remember to write down the URLs

Websites to start you off… Advice on how to use the internet as a research tool: http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/detective/index.html Search Engines: www.yahoo.co.uk www.ask.com www.alltheweb.com Academic Journals: www.academicinfo.net http://www.intute.ac.uk/ Other useful links: http://www.bl.uk/index.shtml - British Library

Advice on how to use the internet as a research tool:

http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/detective/index.html

Search Engines:

www.yahoo.co.uk

www.ask.com

www.alltheweb.com

Academic Journals:

www.academicinfo.net

http://www.intute.ac.uk/

Other useful links:

http://www.bl.uk/index.shtml - British Library