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2 How to Research on the Web and Document What you Use

3 Popular Search Engines www.yahoo.com www.excite.com www.ask.com www.google.com www.webcrawler.com www.yahooligans.com

4 Other Places to Search www.msn.com www.time.com www.cnn.com www.kyvl.org www.washingtonpost.com www.usatoday.com

5 Wording Your Phrase Do’s: Use Quotation marks to get more specific results Use and, or, not with your quotations to narrow your results Don’ts: Use articles, conjunctions, etc in your phrase (i.e. if, the, an) Narrow your search so much that you get no results

6 Health Specific Search Engines www.ivilliage.com www.health.yahoo.com www.mywebmd.com www.mayoclinic.com www.cnn.com/health www.discoveryhealth.com

7 Health Specific Search Engines www.healthAtoZ.com www.healthscout.com/healthcentral www.menshealth.com www.prevention.com www.healthanswers.com

8 Things to Note when Researching on the Web Information on the web can change daily. (print out what you find) Ask yourself: Who sponsors this site and why? (Is the site/ this source credible? Are they biased?) Are you finding supporting information in other resources?

9 MLA Documentation Professional Website: ESPN.com. (name of the website) 12 Nov. 1999. (when the website was last updated) ESPN Internet Ventures. (name of the page within the site) 24 Nov. 1999 (when you accessed the website) http://espn.go.com. (website’s address)http://espn.go.com

10 MLA Documentation Article within a Website: Devitt, Terry. (author of the article) “Flying High.” (article) The Why Files. (title of the website) 9 Dec 1999. (when the article was posted/pub) University of Wisconsin, Board of Regents. (who publishes the website) 4 Jan. 2000 (when you accessed it) http://whyfiles.news.wisc.edu/shorties/kite.html. (the website’s address) http://whyfiles.news.wisc.edu/shorties/kite.html

11 MLA Documentation Personal Website: Hamilton, Calvin, J. (author of the website) Views of the Solar System. (name of the page) 12 Nov. 1999 (date you accessed the site) http://solarviews.com/eng/homepage.htm. http://solarviews.com/eng/homepage.htm

12 MLA Documentation Online Gov’t Document: United States. (which gov’t) U.S. Census Bureau. (which gov’t agency) Poverty in the United States: 1998. (title of the document) Sept. 1999. (when the document was published) 12 Nov. 1999 (when you accessed the document) http://www.census.gov/prod/99pubs/p60 -207.pdf (website where you found the document) http://www.census.gov/prod/99pubs/p60 -207.pdf

13 Review of MLA Information Name of the website/article/author When the website was published/posted When you accessed the website The website’s address Publisher of the website

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