Exam 1: Searching the Internet Effectively

_____________ are services to help you locate information on the Web.

Discuss the role that the evaluation of search results, and the refining of a search, play in the Internet research process.

Keywords are usually the nouns, verbs, and important adjectives found in your topic.

URL names are often __________, indicating what the Web site is about to make it easy to remember.

If your search returns hundreds of pages of results, you should probably look at half of them.

If you are a student or teacher, you can use copyrighted material without citing it because that is "Fair Use."

Give three reasons why you should cite the sources you use.

What kind of words generally make good keywords? What kinds of words generally don't?

MBA and APB are two common citation formats.

MLA format has you put ____________________ around the title of a Web page.

Citation formats are style guides that standardize how citations are written.

____________________ formats are style guides that standardize how citations are written.

In MLA format, the Web page title should be ____________________ and followed by a period.

The ____________________ is a vast collection of documents and other media linked together over the Internet.

Synonyms are words that mean exactly the same thing.

Phrase searching can be accomplished, at many search engines, by putting ____________________ around the block of words you want to appear together on the Web page.

If you get stuck in your research process call or visit your local ____________________. They are the information experts.

The following are common words that are not normally searched ________.

You may need to use a metasearch engine if a single search engine is not delivering the number of results you need.

Subject guides offer alphabetized topics that allow you to work your way down through hierarchically organized directories to find relevant links.