Searching the Web

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Searching the Web
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acronyms
single-concept principle
pseudo-synonyms, or false synonyms
antonyms
hyponyms
neologisms
phraseologism
PROBLEMS WITH USING A SEARCH ENGINE AS THE SOLE
SOURCE OF INFORMATION
quasi-synonyms, or near-synonyms
hypernyms
Cross- references
collocation
monosemy
synonyms
tautonyms
polysemy
abbreviations
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Finding Research online

• Effective Searching
• Let us consider searching for information
  relating to 'Project-Based Learning'
• The Hyphen
• The first thing to note is the hyphen between the
  words 'Project' and 'Based', will every web-page
  relating to this subject have the hyphen in it,
  or will some just leave it out. If you just leave
  it out the search engines will find the phrase
  with or without the hyphen.

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Finding Research online

• So the first search to try is
• "Project Based Learning"
• if this returns 10,000 links then try
• "Project Based Learning" "PhD Thesis"
• "Project Based Learning" "Masters Thesis
• Project Based Learning Masters Thesis
  Declaration
• this may return PhD or Masters thesis on the
  subject you require information on.

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Finding Research online

• To find other 'good' pages relating to your
  subject matter, try
• "Project Based Learning Link"
• for "PBL Links" or "PBL Link Page"
• "Project Based Learning Portal"
• for "PBL Portal" or "PBL Portal Page"
• "Project Based Learning Webring"
• for "PBL Webring" or "PBL Webrings"
• "Project Based Learning FAQ"
• for "PBL FAQ"or "PBL FAQs" or "PBL FAQL"or "PBL
  FAQLs"

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Finding Research online

• If you are looking for papers relating to
  "Project Based Learning", try
• "Project Based Learning" Bibliography
• "Project Based Learning" Literature Review
• "Project Based Learning" Literature Survey
• "Project Based Learning" Overview
• "Project Based Learning" A Roadmap
• Unlike the previous section where we were looking
  for 'good' pages and put the entire phrase in
  double quotes, in this section we are only
  putting the subject matter we are investigating
  in quotes and the rest of the terms are free
  text, in this way we can find pages which may not
  be titled, for example, "Project Based Learning
  Bibliography", but may be a bibliography which
  contain references to Project Based Learning.

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Finding Research online

• If you are looking for a more specific topic, for
  example, "The Impact of the Web on Project Based
  Learning", try
• "Impact of the Web on Project Based Learning"
  (unlikely)
• "Project Based Learning" overview web
• "Project Based Learning" survey web
• "Project Based Learning" review web
• "Project Based Learning" assessment web

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Finding Research online

• Also consider web-sites which will be using the
  acronym for "Project Based Learning"
• so try
• "PBL"
• "P.B.L."
• Consider the acronym for "Virtual Learning
  Environments", it could be "VLE"or "VLEs"or
  "V.L.E."or "V.L.E.s"or "V.L.Es", so try
• "VLE"
• "V.L.E"