<p>MSU ENG 100 Conducting Effective Internet Research WebQuest</p><p> Go to Webb’s classroom website and find the MSU ENG 100 page. On that page there is a folder titled “Conducting Effective Internet Research.” You will need the links in that folder today for this project.</p><p>Purdue OWL 1. What is site crawling? 2. How often to most search engines crawl sites? 3. Why is site crawling and its frequency relevant to your internet searching? 4. What happens if a page is larger than 500k? How is this relevant to your research? Watch the Powerpoint on this page: 5. Why are print resources inherently better for research? 6. What is the invisible web? 7. Complete the invisible web practice. The EBSCOhost link is in the folder on my classroom website. What did you research? Differences between using the visible web and the invisible web? 8. Tips for using search terms? 9. Complete the Search Engines Results Practice. Describe your results. 10. What are the Boolean operators and what do they do? How can using them be helpful? 11. What’s the difference between a search with and without quotation marks? 12. Complete the Search Terms Practice. Results? 13. How can one determine a source’s reliability? 14. What’s Wikipedia good for?</p><p>City University of New York site 15. What are Prof. Popkoff’s tips for having the most effective search term? 16. Prof. Popkoff writes about specialized search mechanisms like www.firstgov.gov. What databases are available through firstgov and what information can they provide you with? 17. Popkoff writes about the top 5 pages he thinks will be “great assistance during your quest for information” What are they and what does each do, specifically?</p><p>UC Berkeley Site 18. List the steps in UC Berkeley’s internet researching process. 19. Choose a topic and proceed through steps 1 and 2, and describe your process in detail. Take your search topic through both the search engines and search directories. Describe your results.</p><p>Wrap Up 20. Overall, what is the most valuable information this webquest provided to you? How will you use this information to guide your research in the future?</p>