Name: Dr. Anvik

Office: Hebler 214-D

Phone number: 963-2901

CWU page: www.cwu.edu/~janvik

Syllabus: www.cwu.edu/~janvik/cs101

Internet Research

General Tips

KISS ("Keep it simple, stupid“ as a design principle noted by the U.S. Navy in 1960 Variations on the phrase include “. Variations: “keep it short and simple" and "keep it simple and straightforward".)

Don’t worry about punctuation, spelling or case

Use quotes to look for an exact phrase

Use unique words

Search for an exact word or phrase"search query"

Use quotes to search for an exact word or set of words. This option is handy when searching for song lyrics or a line from literature."imagine all the people" Tip: Only use this if you're looking for a very precise word or phrase, because otherwise you could be excluding helpful results by mistake.

Exclude a word-query

Add a dash (-) before a word or site to exclude all results that include that word. This is especially useful for synonyms like Jaguar the car brand and jaguar the animal. jaguar speed -car or pandas -site:wikipedia.orgTip: You can also exclude results based on other operators, like excluding all results from a specific site.

Special Characters

*Special Characters

(asterisk) wild card, substitution(Great for half remembered phrases)

Search Specific SitesProceed your query with “site:<filter>”

Using the link: operator, you can find pages that link to a certain page. For example, you can find all the pages that link to google.com.

link:google.com

Tip: You can also search for links to specific pages, like google.com/images.

link:google.com/images

Search for pages that link to a URLlink:query

Search for pages that are similar to a URLrelated:query

To find sites that are similar to a URL you already know, use the related: operator.

For example, when you search for related sites to the New York Times, you'll find other news publication sites you may be interested in.

related:nytimes.com

Search for a number rangenumber..number

Separate numbers by two periods without spaces (..) to see results that contain numbers in a given range of things like dates, prices, and measurements.camera $50..$100 Tip: Use only one number with the two periods to indicate an upper maximum or a lower minimum.

daytona 500 winners ..2000

Search Specific Files TypesAdd “filetype:<type>” as a search term

Type is common extension (e.g. doc, ppt, pdf)

Search Words in Title

Put “intitle:” before search term

Logical Operators

Search either of two terms at once Search two terms

at once, and exclude one

Referencing Your Sources

All ideas not your own need to be referenced with whose idea it was

Different reference formats:

• APA

• AMA

• IEEE

• MLA

• Harvard

• Chicago

Summary

Syntax Example"search query" "imagine all the people"

-query -car

* There is * on a right

site:<filter> site:cwu.edu

link:query link:google.com

related:query related:cwu.edu

Number…number daytona 500 winners ..2000

filetype:<type> filetype:ppt

intitle: Intitle:cat

query OR query world cup 2014 OR 2018

query AND query cats AND dogs