$20.00 IT105 - Student Survival Guide - Final Paper - 1700 words (AXIA/UOP)
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Preview: ... r finest work. Students should only submit papers that have been written specifically for the course at hand; not recycled from an early term, bought off the internet or copy and pasted from various sources. Additionally, one should give credit where credit is due – take thorough notes and site sources appropriately. Following these simple procedures will assist in maintaining academic honesty throughout one’s college career.<br> It is, also, essential for students to know how to conduct internet searches properly and where to find academic resources online. One should explore both academic directories (i.e. http://infomine.ucr.edu [and] http://www.apollolibrary.com/) and commercial portals (i.e. http://www.yahoo.com). Academic and professional directories are ones “created and maintained by subject experts to support the needs of researchers” (Cohen, 2006, Subject Directory, para. 2). Such sites select only sources that are deemed useful by the educational and research community. Commercial portals “cater to the general public” and do not assess subject matter when adding web pages to their databases (Cohen, 2006, Subject Directory, para. 3).<br> There are a few routes to take when attempting to find research information online. Students can use search engines, which “search documents for specified keywords and returns a list of documents where the keywords were found”. Metasearch engines are also helpful. Such sites (http://www.ixquick.com, http://www.dogpile.com) “query other search engines and combine the results that are received from all” so, in essence, one is using a variety of search engines at the exact same time, enhancing the overall search. Additionally, there are various sites where one can find scholarly material – Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com/) and Windows Live Academic (http://search.live.com/results.aspx?scope=academic&q).<br> Students should follow specific steps when completing online research. The topic should first be broken down into smaller ideas. From there, keywords/descriptive phrases should be listed for each thought. Try, also, using Boolean logic (and, or, not) when searching, in order to specify relationships between the keywords. Various search engines should ...
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