Effective Search Strategies

7 th Grade Digital Literacy Content adapted from Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

How effectively can you find information on the Web? Take this challenge and find out…
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Look in the right place
Use the right keywords
Learning to search effectively takes time.
With practice, however, you can become an expert searcher!
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Enter the words you think will be in the documents you seek.
The search engine finds the webpages in its index that exactly match your words.
Review the search results to see if your words found the information you hoped for.
If your search words didn't match, you revise your words and try again.

Four categories of words make up most search tasks:
Keywords that are effective “as is”
Intermediate words that represent important ideas but probably aren’t effective “as is”
Words that have little effect on the outcome
Stop Words that are ignored by a Search Engine

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A hypo nym is a word that describes things more specifically.
Keywords that are hypo nyms will retrieve fewer and more precise results.
Hyper nyms are words that refer to broad categories or general concepts.
Keywords that are hyper nyms will more and less precise results.

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Effective Search Strategies

by Patrick Woessner on Sep 29, 2008

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