Thursday, January 22, 2015

The Bedford Researcher, Chapter eight



            In chapter six is about searching for information with digital resources. Searching for the right source that will help your research project is not easy, the first part of this chapter talks about how to get started and what to look for.  For example, review your research project and identify keywords and phrases. Then input those into the basic search bar such as Google, or Bing. Moving on to the advanced search bar and Boolean operators, these operators let you use can, must or must not appear in the results. Another search tool is using special operators, like the plus sign or minus sign.  Moving on to, searching with online library catalogs and databases. Using this helps you find books, journals, newspapers, documents, maps, audiotapes, videotapes, and dissertations completed by college or university graduate students and more. The last part in this chapter is a using media search sites to search for sources, such as, image search sites, audio search sites, and video search sites. Using these appropriately will enhance your research project to a higher level. Overall, digital sources are very important and should be taken full advantage of for your research project. And getting the right information will help be successful.  

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