Students Stumped by Search Engines

Students reported feeling “anxious” and confused when trying to research. Many felt overwhelmed by the volume of results their searches would turn up, not realizing that there are ways to narrow those searches and get more tailored results. Others would abandon their research topics when they couldn’t find enough sources, unaware that they were using [...]

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Scholarly Search Engines

Using the Internet for your research? Recent analysis shows that only 7% of results from a Google search are worthy of inclusion in a college-level research project. So you have two concerns when using any general search engine for research: identify the 7% of reliable sites in your results list, and try to find the [...]

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Why Evaluate Websites?

The answer to almost any question is available within seconds, courtesy of the invention that has altered how we discover knowledge – the search engine.  The real difficulty kicks in when you click down into your search results. At that point, it’s up to you to sort the accurate bits from the misinfo, disinfo, spam, [...]

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