Christy Gavin

Fall, 2009

The Internet includes:

World Wide WebEmailIMFTP

Gopher Menus

http://www.dogpile.com/

http://voyager.lib.csub.edu/cgi-bin/academic_pre.pl

Move from haphazard Googlingto. . .

power searching.

• Exert control over results

• Become less distracted by irrelevant results

• Build confidence

Power Searching

Approach each web search as a problem to be solved.

Major types of searches:

Simple KeywordBooleanField

Great content. . .

but can you trust it?

Evidence used to support content?

Can you trust the evidence?

Who’s behind the website?

Are they. . .

who they say they are?

http://www.ihr.org/

Cyber-Plagiarism

What is it?

How To Avoid It

What Is It?

How To Avoid IT

From: Live Journal.com

Cyber-Plagiarism

Summary of CourseWeb Search Tools

Power Search Strategies

Topic/Thesis Development

Free/Dark Web Databases

Scholarly vs. Popular Websites

Cyber-Plagiarism

Evaluation of Websites

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