Search Strategies for Technical Communicators
- Here are four of the top Web search engines:
- University of Michigan Subject Matter Guides to Online Information
- StarkNet. Guide to searching for information on the Internet. Provides a nice overview of the different search engines.
- Fondren Library: Internet Search Strategies. From Rice University, tips on searching the Web, evaluating what you find, and citing the sources from which you borrow information.
- Electronic Frontier Foundation's (Extended) Guide to the Internet. A general introduction to the Internet, with strategies for searching the Web.
- Newbies Anonymous: A Newcomer's Guide to the Internet--Searching the Internet.
- Finding Information on the World Wide Web from Kenyon College (also see the full menu of search strategies at Kenyon College Learning Technologies).
- Boolean Operators. Essential information for searching the web using Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT, and others). From University of Washington's Information Literacy Skills Workbook.
- How to Use Boolean Logic. From NewsBank, more information on using AND, OR, NOT operators to refine web searches.
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