The Essential Guide to Using the Web for

In recent years, the internet has provided students and researchers with fantastic opportunities and a distinct set of challenges. In his new book, Nigel Ford shows how these opportunities and challenges impact on student research projects and explains the skills needed to navigate the web and use it effectively, emphasizing independent learning and the ability to critically assess information and transform it into effective evidence.In connecting these online skills to the research process, Ford helps students to understand and answer research questions, construct an argument and present their evidence.The book includes sections on:'¢ beginner and advanced search techniques'¢ assessing online information'¢ organising and storing information'¢ social networking sites and other online tools'¢ referencing, copyright and plagiarism.As well as providing all of the basic techniques students need to use the internet as a research tool, this book will also help them to convert their online findings into a well structured, high quality research project.

Introduction
Why Read This Book?
The Book's Underlying Rationale
Search Tools Covered in this Book
Learning and Critical Thinking: The Essentials
Learning and Assessment Basics
Essential Learning Components
Summary
Clarifying What Is Required of You
Clarifying the Nature of your Assignment
Planning your Assignment
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Finding High-Quality Information
Defining 'Authoritative' Information
Information Seeking
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How to Do a Literature Review
Initial Explorations
Strategies for Finding High-Quality Academic Sources
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Information Sources and Search Tools
Types of information source
Types of search tool
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Mapping Search Approaches and Techniques to Information Needs
Directory-Based Browsing and Searching
Topic Similarity Searching
Document Similarity Searching
Filtering
Citation Searching
Boolean and Other Advanced Search Engine Operators
Summary
Scholarly Search Tools in Detail
When to Use Which Search Tools
Google Scholar
SciVerse Scopus
Web of Knowledge Incorporating Web of Science
Summary
Transforming Information into Evidence-Based Arguments
Making Information 'Your Own'
Critically Evaluating Information
Validity, Reliability, Objectivity and Generalisability as Critical Tools
Developing Your Own Evidence-Based Arguments
Summary
Presenting Your Evidence Effectively
Plagiarism
Citing Your Sources
Summary
Keeping up to Date
a New Document is Published on your Topic
Documents in Which You Are Interested Are Cited in a Newly Published Document
An Author is Cited by a New Document or Publishes a New Document
a New Issue of a Journal in which you are Interested is Published
a website in Which You Are Interested is Updated
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Organizing and Sharing Your Information
Mendeley Basics
Importing Data from Google Scholar and Other Search Tools
Adding Pdf Files to Your Library
Inserting References into Your Work
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The Essential Guide to Using the Web for Research

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