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Searching the Internet

What Search Engine Do I Use?

How Do I Search My Topic?

What is a Search Strategy?

How Do I Know if a Website is Real?

How Do I Cite a Website?HomeBack

What Search Engine Should I Use?

IxQuick is a Metasearch Engine. It searches many search engines for you when you conduct a search. This gives you more relevant results and reduces your time searching the Internet.

Google is a regular search engine and will give results based on information it can access.

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How Do I Search My Topic?

Brainstorm keywords related to your topic. Example: Keywords for Drug Abuse in Teenagers drug, abuse, cocaine, marijuana, heroin, substance abuse, nicotine, drugs, addiction, teenager drug abuse, teenagers.

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What is a Search Strategy?

A search strategy is a planned organization of terms used to search the Internet or adatabase.

For your topic Drug Abuse in Teenagers, you might organize these searches and see what results you get: drugs and teenagers, teenagers and drugs drug abuse and teenagers

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How Do I Know That a Website is Real?

Use these criteria to evaluate a website:

Accuracy Authority

Objectivity Currency Coverage

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How Do I Cite a Website?

Use these authoritative websites for citation rules

APA (American Psychological Association) Style Guide

MLA (Modern Language Association) Style Guide

OWL Writing Guide at Purdue

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Using Online Databases

What is an Online Database?

How Do I Find an Online Database?

How Do I Search My Topic?

What is Peer-Reviewed?

How Do I Cite My Article?

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What is an Online Database?

An online database is a database containing journal an magazine articles that is accessible over a network on the Internet. Usually these are subscribed to by your school and are on your school website.

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How do I Find An Online Database ?

Go to the Library Website of your School and Click Databases or Research. (See UNT example)

In Tennessee, go to the Tennessee Electronic Librarywhich is free. (See TEL) Other states have similar freeDatabases.

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How Do I Search My Topic?

Search your topic using keywords that you have brainstormed in the search box of the database.See UNT database search page.

Using keywords, devise a search strategy.

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What is Peer-Reviewed?This is an article that has been reviewed by othersiin the field (peers) to insure that the article ishigh quality, relevant to the field, an appropriateto the journal in which it appears.

Your instructor might require peer-reviewed articlesfor your paper so that they know that you will beusing journal articles with relevant and well-researchedInformation.

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How Do I Cite My Article?

Use these authoritative websites for citation rules

APA (American Psychological Association) Style Guide

MLA (Modern Language Association) Style Guide

OWL Writing Guide at Purdue

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