Evaluating online resources and research techniquesAmanda DeNicola

Keywords

Mathematics

Boolean

wildcard

How to tell if a website is true

Does it have and author? Are the sources in the bibliography

real? To check this click one of the links and see

if it opens. Does it look professional or just

thrown together? These are just some ways.

Search methods

Keywords You can use key words for your search. If you are searching for dog breeds

that’s what you would type in. Dog Breeds is an example of a key word.

Mathematics You can use the “+ and –” signs to

narrow your search. If you are searching for dogs….

+ breeds but – little dogs. This is if you cannot find what you want.

Amanda DeNicola

Boolean and Wildcard You use different words such as…….

Or And But

These are standing for different symbols.

The wild card is the *. If you dint know how to spell something

then you would use this.

6/22/2012