Week three log UPC0004

The lecture
Today's lecture was only a very short lecture, which included information about online libraries and databases.
We were asked by the lecturer to name a list of databases and online libraries that we can remember, and to list all the advantages and disadvantages to using a library online, and how important it is to reference online articles accurately.
Having learnt that marks can be deducted if referencing is incorrect was particularly vital to me, because for part of one of my upcoming assignments about euthanasia, i have to include 9 references so learning how to reference properly will be beneficial to me.

On the other hand, this lecture didn't really provide me with all that much information, as i knew most of what i was being taught, and anything extra for example learning about the advantages and disadvantages of a database or an online library was irrelevant to me, because i usually only use Google to reference or find websites, and I have found that this has been my most reliable source of information through the years.
The lecturer did however bring to my attention that to make my research even more constructive by using Google i could use the advanced search to narrow down my search topic and provide me with more specific information on my particular subject.



The Tutorial
This weeks Tutorial was an extension of what was introduced in the lecture, so all of the tasks were related to the lecture and the topic of research.
I found this tutorial helpful to me, as it was mainly just refreshing and polishing up what I had already learnt, except i found the tips about how to research beneficial, as I am always having trouble collecting data on the Internet, mainly due to poor search techniques.
After this weeks tutorial, i can now research my topics for upcoming assignments with ease, by following the simple research tips.


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The following are 10 useful research tips.
-Use synonyms when searching
-The keyword research has to be specific and focusing on 3-5 key phrases each page.
-utilize grammatical differences of the key words such as abbreviations, merged, separated and hyphened key phrases.
-Use quotations wherever possible.
-Take into account what website you may be searching and the nationality, so keywords should be written accordingly.
-On Google use the advanced search
-Use more precise search engines for example the ecu library online if looking for something in the Ecu library.
-Be sure of what you are searching
-Develop a great search strategy
-Think to yourself what type of data are you aiming to collect?


who do you think would use online journals and how would it help them?
Online journals could be used by absolutely anyone of any age with access to a computer.
Journals are a good idea to keep track of business information, lecture and tutorial information for students at university's or students at high school, or every day people wanting to keep a journal so they can vent their thoughts for other people to see.
Not only do you have to use a journal to write, but you can also set up a blog simply to browse what other people have written to inspire you or maybe to teach you and get a better insight into particular subjects.
This could help people to gain an understanding of a subject from all different people perspectives and open their mind to a different way of thinking. Or a blog could help someone to retain their information or to simply just write whatever may be on that persons mind to reflect on later.

3. Screen shots





I found this article by using Google and searching for 'global warming articles'.
This article mainly goes into Detail about how global warming is affecting the arctic climate, and what that will mean for the future of our world and the arctic.

Medline Search Results: Global Warming.




1.Summary


Basically this article discusses the affects of global warming on the arctic and how it is increasing at a deadly rate.
The article tells us the effects of global warming on the arctic and what that means not only for the world, but also the sea life, and the effects of the declining number of krill and how that will impact most of the wildlife in the arctic, as krill is the main source of food for whales, seals, fish and penguins.
The article also discusses the decline of the temperature in some places, and the increase of the temperature in other places, and also the research being put into global warming in the Antarctic.

1.Reading: Finding what you want on the web
The Article 'Finding what you want on the web', discusses good searching and how it is hard at first to break away from the Google search cycle, because most of the subjects you want to research haven't come out in books yet.
The article then goes on to discuss wide ranging web indices and also how searching well can be difficult and confusing if not done properly, partly because the web is too big, and just getting bigger.

2.Reading 2 bare bones lesson 7: basic search tips
The Website gives the reader some basic search tips and examples of how to use these search tips in order to make a more definitive and better quality search, and can be used on most search engines in their basic search option.
Some of these examples include,

-Put your most important keywords first in the string, IE: dog breed family pet choose

-Use double quotation marks (" ") around phrases to ensure they are searched exactly as is, with the words side by side in the same order, IE: "bye bye miss American pie"

-Type keywords and phrases in lower case to find both lower and upper case versions. Typing capital letters will usually return only an exact match, IE: president retrieves both president and President

-When searching within a document for the location of your keyword(s), use the "find" command on that page.