This video is part of an EAP course for students enrolled in pre-Master Program

Presented by

Dr.Heba M.Abdullah

TEFL Lecturer ,Faculty of Graduate Studies

for Education ,Cairo University

Using the Internet for Search

1. Remember that the internet contains vast amounts of information, so the following tips are essential.

Use educational and government websites with internet suffixes: .edu, .ac or .gov as they are generally considered more credible.

Avoid online material that is published through commercial sites (sites with a .com or .co suffix) as they may be biased.

Websites of non-commercial organizations usually have a .org suffix. Cite Widely known and respected organizations, such as the United Nations.

Be wary of other organizations set up to promote a particular view or cause. They may be biased so indicate this possibility in your essay if you cite them.

try using synonyms (= words that have a very similar meaning) or related words. Instead of management, for example, type leadership.

Do not include instruction words or small words such as ‘the’, out , for , and in, only include content words in the search.

Knowing who the experts are if they ( Research Gate-Academia –Google Scholar)

Have professional qualifications showing they have the knowledge and training to write about the topic

Are connected to or work for a recognized and respected organization, for example a

University, a research institute, a government department, or professional association

Have their work published by recognized publishing houses, journals or organizations

Are cited in other academic works

Finding information in the library

Library cataloguesA library catalogue is a list of all of the materials in the library. The library catalogue will list a wide variety of materials: books, e-books, journals, e journals, newspapers, doctoral theses and so on. Look at the following pictures.

2. Advanced keyword searches

Searching for phrasesif you wish to search for a phrase, rather than individual key words, you can place quotation marks (“…”) around the phrase Truncationto truncate key words means to search articles containing words in the same word family ,i.e.,Bank* Boolean operatorsThis involves combining your key words using ‘and’, ‘or’ and ‘not’ to make your search either more specific or more general.

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