As we begin research papers, there are a few sites that I think would be helpful as you research and write. Click on the following links to learn more. The only comments needed in response to this post include your experiences if you have ever used these or any additional links you think would be helpful. *** Hint: The "wiki" site is going to be very useful in the future.
1) Yahoo Briefcase: This is online storage for files. This is helpful if you save a file at school and you want access at home. Create an account here and store docs and pics.
2) del.icio.us: This is a bookmark/favorites keeper. Import your bookmarks from your home computer to this site. Have access to them (and other people's bookmarks as well) from anywhere.
3) Wikispace: You will receive an invitation to become a member and editor of this site. It will be a place to add sites and ideas for research papers.
4) Google Scholar: Here is what Google says about this specific search engine-
"Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations."
Happy Researching!!!
3 comments:
First of all I want to thank you for taking the time to give us the names of several links. But I do have one question. Does information from these links qualify for one of our resources for out research paper? Most of my teachers in the past have stressed the fact that there are many b.s. websites offering up incorrect information and it just seems like an encyclopedia where you write in your definitions and comments is screaming false info. I could be wrong, but I just wasn’t sure if we could actually cite these in our papers.
To Caroline and others,
The "wiki" site is not wikipedia. It using the same concept. It will become a collaborative site for all of you to become editors and contributors to a resource site for our papers. You are correct that wikipedia is not a completely reliable site because, of course, its contributors cannot be considered credible. Click on wikispaces... you will see.
Thanks for your help with the paper. Maybe this time writing this paper wont be as hard as it has been for me in the past few years.
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