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LESSON 3 - Online Search and Research Skills

This document provides tips for improving online search and research skills, including using precise keywords and Boolean operators like AND and OR to narrow searches, evaluating the credibility of websites by considering the author's credentials and potential biases, and checking when information was published and last updated. The overall goal is to help students conduct contextualized online searches and research to find the most relevant and reliable information.

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LESSON 3 - Online Search and Research Skills

This document provides tips for improving online search and research skills, including using precise keywords and Boolean operators like AND and OR to narrow searches, evaluating the credibility of websites by considering the author's credentials and potential biases, and checking when information was published and last updated. The overall goal is to help students conduct contextualized online searches and research to find the most relevant and reliable information.

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Q1

LESSON 3
Contextualized Online
Search and Research Skills
OBJECTIVES
After going through, you are expected to:

1. Use the precise keywords to improve online


searches;

2. Evaluate website’s credibility


Contextualized
Online Search and
Research Skills
Information is just literally just a click away.
Information can be accessed through
personal computers, smartphones, and
other digital devices anytime and anywhere.
However, most of the Internet users are
experiencing an information overload which
oftentimes affects the quality of information
that they take
Did you type the whole question
on the search box?
Are you sure that you get your
answer from reliable websites? ?
Are the authors of article you get
your answers from are credible? ?
Tips on Improving
Search and
Research Skills
Online search and research are more than
just „googling‟ – typing a word in Google
and then clicking the search button. It is a
skill that every Internet user should know
to do smart searching and this starts with
improving search and research skills to
get better results.
Here are the things that you need to
know to improve your online search
and research skills. This will guide you
to obtain the most relevant
information that you need.
1. When searching online, narrow
your topic
Identify the key concepts or important ideas.
Assuming that you would like to search for the
answer to this question:
Do not type the whole question in the search
box. Typing the whole question often leads to a
large number of and inappropriate search
results.
“What precautionary measures should you observe when you are logged
in in public computer?
Keywords are: precautionary measures, observed, logged-in, public
computer
Keywords are terms that are used in by most search engines to find
related documents
2. Put the word “AND” between each
keyword to create a search string
You may type the following in the search box:
“Precautionary measures AND observe AND logged-in AND public
computer”
3. Identify synonyms of the key
words
Not all databases or articles use the same words to
describe a topic. Group similar words together by using the
word “OR” for a quick and relevant search.

In the case of our example: the synonyms of some of the


keywords are:
Precautionary measures – preventive measures
Observe – pay attention to
Logged-in – signed-in
You may type the following in the search box:
Precautionary measures OR preventive measures AND
observe OR pay attention to AND logged-in OR signed-in
AND public computer
4. Review the first pages returned.
If these are not helpful, change your keywords for a better
description.
In this case you may remove the phrase ”pay attention to “ and
then type the following in the search box:

Precautionary measures OR preventive measures AND


observe AND logged-in or signed-in AND public computer.
If you think you have found what you are
searching for, then you may stop here.
Otherwise, you may proceed with these
techniques.
5. Use the plus(+)sign for a more
specific search

Just type + before a keyword to indicate that the


word after the sign is a required word after the
sign is a required word that must be found in the
search.
Example: +preventive measures
6. Use the minus(-)sign for a more
specific search
If you want to exclude a word from your search,
place a minus sign just before (without any
space) the word you want to exclude. Example:
public computers –personal
Example: public computers -personal
7. Use wildcards for a broader
search.

Wildcard characters (*) let you find variations of


a word.
Example: measur*
8. Use quotation marks to find
phrase or names

Enclose the phrase or names that you want to


search in quotation marks.
Example: “precautionary measures"
9. Use several search engines

Search engines are programs that look for


documents based from specified keywords and
return these documents where the keywords
were found. Major search engines include:
Evaluating
Websites
To help you evaluate the website’s
credibility, here are the questions
that you need to answer:
1. What is the domain type of the
website?

If it is a personal website, then you should


further evaluate the website
2. Who wrote the article?

Check if the author’s credentials or affiliations


are listed so you can tell whether or not the
author is qualified to write the topic. Check also
the publisher of the article if it is a reliable
publisher. Make sure that the author provides e-
mail or a contact address/phone number.
3. What is the purpose of the
document and why was it produced?
It is also important to check the document’s purpose
and why it was produced. The document should
provide accurate information and must be objective in
presenting it. Some websites produce documents for
the purpose of motivating users to buy products. If this
is the case, information might be biased. However,
bias is not necessarily bad but you need to investigate
the author or connections
4. When was the document
published and updated?

The document should be regularly updated. As to the


freshness of the date, it depends on the information
needed. For some topics you want current information.
For others, you want information near the time it
became known. The links should also be up-to-date.
There should be no dead links
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