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USING THE COMPUTER IN
YOUR RESEARCH
Applied English 4
Group 5
9310002A Joshua
9310009A Jessie
9310012A Daniel
9310020A Zoe
9310029A Shelly
9310033A Peter
5A Computers and the research paper
 Before:
 Now:
 For
Typewriter
Word
example: word, excel, PowerPoint.
Computer Changed
 In
some quarters, computer have done away with
note cards.
 In
some school, by e-mail to traditional
submission of hard copy.
 To
whole laborious businesses of research, they
offer to full-text databases.
5B The Internet
 The
Internet: a system of computers connected
by a common protocol.
 The
World Wide Web: is part of Internet.
Connected Internet tools
1.
Slow connections
Modem
Telephone Line
2.
Fast connection
High-speed cable
DSL (digital subscriber line)
INTERNET CHANGED EXPLOSIVELY
 In
1969, 4 host.
 In
1996 there were more than
13 million.
 In
2002, the Internet have more than 800 million
users worldwide.
SOME INTERNET tERMS
 FTP:
File transfer protocol in Internet
 HTML:
it's a computer language to create website
 HTTP:
it’s a protocol rule of website
 ISP:
it is a company to offer users to connection
Internet
Ex: Hinet, Seednet
 URL:
its address on the Internet
UNDERSTANDING INTERNET ADDRESSES
 An
 1.
Internet address or URL consists of three parts:
Protocol
 2. Name of the host
 3. Document path
EXAMPLE
Protocol Name of the host document path
http://tw.yahoo.com/news
5C ONLINE RESOURCES
Databases
Electronic
journals
Online
publicaccess catalogs
DATABASES
 It’s
a collection of data that is organized
and stored electronically for easy retrieval.
 Attractive
feature - it can be searched in a
variety of ways, usually by keyword, author
or title.

Expanded Academic ASAP
1,204 periodicals
685 of them in full text
ELECTRONIC JOURNALS
 They
are scholarly journals or magazines
that can be accessed via electronic
transmission.
They
are serial publications that can be
accessed by a computer through the
World Wide Web or via FTP, gopher,
telnet, e-mail, or listserv.
Some
electronic journals are onlineonly journals; some are online versions
of printed journals.
The
occasional drawback-limited
search function.
ONLINE PUBLIC-ACCESS CATALOG
(OPACS)
It’s
a computerized online catalog of
the materials held in a library or library
system.
It’s
an important tool in helping users.
ONLINE COMPUTER LIBRARY CENTER
(OCLC)

Nonprofit

Membership

Computer library service

Research organization
5D RESEARCHING WITH SEARCH
ENGINES
 Search
engine: a tool that using specific words
via your topic to search the Web.
＊Most common used search engines: Yahoo!,
Google, Alta Vista.
BOOLEAN LOGIC
 And:
engine looks for sources in both two terms
you find.
 Or:
engine looks for two or more terms.
 Not:
engine exclude the particular term from
what you find.
FINDING a SEARCH ENGINE
 For
searching other, more specified engines for
more sources.
Educational search engines
 The
search engines for nonprofit organizationslibraries, schools, government agencies. They
usually reserve about scholarly sources.
Useful search engines
 Manual:
search directories and subcategories
which have been compiled human.
 Robotic:
like a spider, software crawl the Web
and scan the untold number of pages.
 Metasearch:
searches and compiles the top
listings of other search engines.
 Example:
Manual: Yahoo!
Robotic: Google
Metasearch: Metacrawler
5e
Usenet, listserv, telnet, and gopher
☆ Internet : World Wide Web.
→ useful for the typical researcher.
☆ Other parts of Internet:
→ Usenet, listserv, telnet, and gopher.
5e-1 Usenet (User Network)
 Created
in 1979
 Electronic
bulletin boards
 Posting
a question or message to anyone else
with a computer
 Separate
bulletin boards
→ discussion forums or newsgroups


Deja. Com (an Internet Company) acquired the
systematic process
→ saving and indexing themes of discussions.
(1995)
Google continued to refine the categories
→making them more accessible. (2001)
Main Categories in the Usenet
 alt
→ unmoderated newsgroups
 biz
→ business, economy
 comp
→ computer
 misc
→ discussions that match no other category
 news
→ usenet-specific
Cont.
 rec
→ recreation
 sci
→ science
 soc
→ society-related
 talk
→ controversial discussions about politics
and others
Cont.

k12
→ education for students and teachers

Bionet
→ biology-research

bit.listserv → newsgroups from bitnet-mailinglists

Clari
→ commercial stories

clarinet
→ commercial news service

gnu
→ GNU-related discussions of the Free
Software Foundation (FSF)
It’s different from the Web ( advantages of
Usenet)
 Presenting
 Without
information in an e-mail format
graphics (pictures) and sound
 It’s
a goldmine of information, especially on rare
or esoteric topic.
 grappling
help
with difficult topic and could ask for
Cont.
 Has
it’s own vocabulary
 A must
for beginner are the FAQs(frequently
asked questions)
 Easily
to find the typical questions that
newcomers ask
 FAQs
also could help you with your netiquette
5e-2 Listservs
 A software
which manages the mailing
lists of discussion groups
 Listserv
service likens to show on which
exchanges are done entirely by e-mail
 for
students, other sources are more useful than
listserv.
http://tile.net/lists
http://tile.net/
http://www.lsoft.com/lists/listref.html
5e-3 Telnet and gopher
a protocol for connecting computers on
the Internet
 Telnet→
an old-fashioned system of searching
the Internet.
 Gopher→
Now let’s see how to use them