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Topics -- CQ Researcher covers topics of current political or social interest. Major aspects of the topic are outlined, along with background information and a description of the current situation. A pro-con opinion page highlights primary points of the opposing arguments. Each write-up closes with a discussion of future outlooks and a list of sources for additional research.
Search for coverage of your topic. Make notes here about what you find. You can email these articles to yourself.
Article title__________________________________________________ Periodical title (look where the screen says Source) _____________________________________________________ Date of periodical_______________ EBSCOhost
has a nifty email feature. Once your article is on your screen,
click on E-mail towards the top of the screen.
When you find a fulltext article, you might want to try emailing it to yourself (click on Email) Find an article on your topic. Article title____________________________________________ Where & when was it published?_________________________________
Your notes________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________
Some
"tricks" to use in evaluating Web sites
1. Frequently, authors of Web pages include a date to indicate when the page was last updated (look at the bottom of the page). 2. Domain names in the U.S. ending in .com are commercial (in the United Kingdom, it's .co), those ending in .gov are governmental, .edu is for educational institutions, .org is for nonprofits and other organizations, .net is for domains that support the network, and .mil domains originate with the military. To check out others, go to Top Level Domain Names and Country Codes. You can check to see who owns a domain name by going to the whois directory at Network Solutions. Getting a person's name or a company name as the owner sometimes help you understand the context for the information carried on the page. 3. Frequently (but not always), a tilde (the symbol ~) prior to a file name indicates that it is someone's personal Web page. Some places on the Web are in the business of hosting personal Web pages. When a domain name has geocities, angelfire, tripod, or aol in it, the Web page is probably a personal one. 4. If a site has a long file name, try taking off the last part of the URL to see the Web page or site to which it is hooked, which will possibly help you understand the context. 5. Use good, common sense. If you were researching in traditional print sources, for example, you would judge a book written by an expert in the field differently from a small brochure riddled with typos from a marginal organization. Whereas the brochure looks very different from your authoritative book, out on the Web, materials of markedly different quality and value can, on first glance, appear quite similar. To get to a list of search engines
You might want to try using Google's Advanced Search mode. A search for Web sites from educational institutions, from the last 3 months, about immigration from mexico, with the words limit OR politics, would look like this:
Getting to a list of Internet Search Engines
Search for Web sites that would be useful to your research. Make notes below about 3 quality Web sites you find. 1. URL____________________________ _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ 2. URL____________________________ _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ 3. URL_________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________
How
do you reference your resources?
How to Get to This Page on the Internet
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With the Advanced search screen, you can most efficiently
search more than one term at a time. Click on the little box next
to the word 
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