1. U SING THE COMPUTER IN YOUR RESEARCH Applied English 4 Group 5 9310002A Joshua 9310020A Zoe 9310009A Jessie 9310029A Shelly 9310012A Daniel 9310033A Peter 5

2. 5A Computers and the research paper Before: Typewriter Now: Word For example: word, excel, PowerPoint.

3. In some quarters, computer have done away with note cards. In some school, by e-mail to traditional submission of hard copy. To whole laborious businesses of research, they offer to full-text databases. Computer Changed

4. 5 B The Internet The Internet: a system of computers connected by a common protocol. The World Wide Web: is part of Internet.

5. Connected Internet tools 1. Slow connections Modem Telephone Line 2. Fast connection High-speed cable DSL (digital subscriber line)

6. I NTERNET CHANGED EXPLOSIVELY In 1969, 4 host. In 1996 there were more than 13 million. In 2002, the Internet have more than 800 million users worldwide.

7. S OME I NTERNET t ERMS FTP: File transfer protocol in Internet HTML: it's a computer language to create website

8. HTTP: it’s a protocol rule of website ISP: it is a company to offer users to connection Internet Ex: Hinet, Seednet URL: its address on the Internet

9. U NDERSTANDING I NTERNET A DDRESSES An Internet address or URL consists of three parts: 1. Protocol 2. Name of the host 3. Document path

10. E XAMPLE Protocol Name of the host document path http://tw.yahoo.com/news

11. 5C O NLINE RESOURCES Databases Electronic journals Online public- access catalogs

12. D ATABASES It ’ s a collection of data that is organized and stored electronically for easy retrieval. Attractive feature - it can be searched in a variety of ways, usually by keyword, author or title.

13. Expanded Academic ASAP 1,204 periodicals 685 of them in full text

16. E LECTRONIC JOURNALS They are scholarly journals or magazines that can be accessed via electronic transmission.

17. They are serial publications that can be accessed by a computer through the World Wide Web or via FTP, gopher, telnet, e-mail, or listserv.

18. Some electronic journals are online- only journals; some are online versions of printed journals. The occasional drawback-limited search function.

19. O NLINE PUBLIC - ACCESS CATALOG (OPAC S ) It’s a computerized online catalog of the materials held in a library or library system. It’s an important tool in helping users.

22. O NLINE C OMPUTER L IBRARY C ENTER (OCLC) Nonprofit Membership Computer library service Research organization

25. 5D R ESEARCHING WITH SEARCH ENGINES Search engine: a tool that using specific words via your topic to search the Web. ＊ Most common used search engines: Yahoo!, Google, Alta Vista.

26. B OOLEAN LOGIC And: engine looks for sources in both two terms you find. Or: engine looks for two or more terms. Not: engine exclude the particular term from what you find.

27. F INDING a SEARCH ENGINE For searching other, more specified engines for more sources.

28. Educational search engines The search engines for nonprofit organizations- libraries, schools, government agencies. They usually reserve about scholarly sources.

35. Useful search engines Manual: search directories and subcategories which have been compiled human. Robotic: like a spider, software crawl the Web and scan the untold number of pages. Metasearch: searches and compiles the top listings of other search engines.

36. Example: Manual: Yahoo! Robotic: Google Metasearch: Metacrawler

40. Usenet, listserv, telnet, and gopher ☆ Internet : World Wide Web. → useful for the typical researcher. ☆ Other parts of Internet: → Usenet, listserv, telnet, and gopher. 5e

41. 5e-1 Usenet (User Network) Created in 1979 Electronic bulletin boards Posting a question or message to anyone else with a computer Separate bulletin boards → discussion forums or newsgroups

42. Deja. Com (an Internet Company) acquired the systematic process → saving and indexing themes of discussions. (1995) Google continued to refine the categories →making them more accessible. (2001 )

43. Main Categories in the Usenet alt → unmoderated newsgroups biz → business, economy comp → computer misc → discussions that match no other category news → usenet-specific

44. rec → recreation sci → science soc → society-related talk → controversial discussions about politics and others Cont.

45. k12 → education for students and teachers Bionet → biology-research bit.listserv → newsgroups from bitnet-mailinglists Clari → commercial stories clarinet → commercial news service gnu → GNU-related discussions of the Free Software Foundation (FSF)

46. It’s different from the Web ( advantages of Usenet) Presenting information in an e-mail format Without graphics (pictures) and sound It’s a goldmine of information, especially on rare or esoteric topic. grappling with difficult topic and could ask for help

47. Cont. Has it’s own vocabulary A must for beginner are the FAQs(frequently asked questions) Easily to find the typical questions that newcomers ask FAQs also could help you with your netiquette

48. 5e-2 Listservs A software which manages the mailing lists of discussion groups

49. Listserv service likens to show on which exchanges are done entirely by e-mail for students, other sources are more useful than listserv. http://tile.net/lists http://tile.net/ http://www.lsoft.com/lists/listref.html

53. 5e-3 Telnet and gopher Telnet→ a protocol for connecting computers on the Internet Gopher→ an old-fashioned system of searching the Internet.

54. Now let’s see how to use them