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Finding Web Sources:

• Brief Overview
• What's Out There?
• Web Basics
• Search Tools
• Search Strategies
• Is it Bogus?
• Helpful Sites
• Citing the Web

Finding Web Sites: A Brief Overview

The World Wide Web provides billions of pages of information. The numbers increase exponentially every day. It's a huge source of text, images, sound and video. It seems that everyone has a web page - local and federal governments, companies, schools, churches - even the 10-year-old across the street. How on earth can you find relevant, quality information in all of that?

This module will provide some basic starting points for you:

1. Decide what information is best found on the web;

2. Use a variety of search tools to find what you need;

3. Develop a specific search strategy and stay focused;

4. Evaluate what you find very closely to make sure it's good information.