Presentación para los estudiantes de Inglés 3101

1. Tutorial Prepared by: Prof. Noraida Domínguez Information Literacy and Technologies Program Learning Resources Center University of Puerto Rico at Carolina Comenzar

8. To conduct a Keyword Search you can write the words that best identify your topic

9. The search engine will retrieve Web pages that contain the words you used for the search

11. Not all the search engines recognize the Boolean Connectors. Yahoo recognize these connectors if you write them in capital letters

12. The search engine retrieves the Web pages that include all the words you used to conduct the search

13. Using the Boolean connector OR When writing effects OR causes, means that you want to retrieve Web pages that contain any of both words. This page only contains the word effects

15. When searching for information about someone it is more effective to write the name in quotation marks, this way you retrieve the Web pages that contain the exact name

19. By identifying the domain extension you can determine the type of information you will find in the Web page. If it ends in: .edu – you will find educational information .com – you will find any type of information, it may be with commercial purposes .gov – you will find information published by a governmental agency