Allyn & Bacon's TechCommunity website offers these links as a gateway into news and information on science, technology, and medical topics on the Internet.If you are a technical communication student, use this area of the website as a brainstorming zone for technical writing projects and as a way to explore professional fields of interest to you. And whoever you are, use this area as a way of exploring and keeping up with developments in the worlds of science, technology, and health.
Notice also that this page offers links to search strategies you can use to find information on the web as well as techniques for evaluating what you find on the web and for properly citing the information you find.
- Current News in Science, Technology, and Health. These links take you to various sources of current news and information on science-, technology- and health-related issues.
- Links to Professions and Fields. These links point to collections of links for the various technology-, science-, and health-related professions. Use these links to get an introduction to these fields and professions or to find more specific information resources.
- New, Interesting, and Alternative Technologies. A collection of links to websites featuring such topics as wind energy, global positioning systems, robotics, "green" automotive technology, extraterrestrial intelligence, superluminal motion, cloning, and much more.
- Museums and Exhibits. Check here for an interesting collection of technology-, science-, and health-related museums and exhibits that are on the World Wide Web.
- Search Strategies for Technical Communicators. Use these links to learn about search strategies you can use to find information on the web.
- Evaluating Internet Information Sources. As with any information you find, you must evaluate the information you find on the Internet -- but even more carefully. Practically anyone can get a website and post anything on it for the world to see. Use these links for guidelines on evaluating web information sources.
- Documenting Internet Information Sources. Once you've found Internet information sources, you're obligated to cite, or document the source of that borrowed information. These links take you to some of the best sites that show you how to do that.
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