3rd Week in EIR

Hi! I have been busy so did not have time to update my blog. This week, I am going to talk about what I have learnt a couple of weeks back.

A few weeks back, we learnt about the different search functions and features of Google. I was deeply impressed by what I was thought!

To be honest, I always thought that researching is all about just typing the whole question that you want to ask into the search box. But because of that, I always have a lot of websites that are totally not relevant to the things that I was searching for.

I never knew that there was actually a way to type out specifically on what you want to search! Using the “AND”, “OR” and the open and close brackets, I managed to narrow down the topic that I was researching about! It was an eye opener for me as many redundant results that were there in the beginning disappeared!

From now on, I would definitely use all these things that I learnt to make sure that all the different search results would all be useful for me and help make my work much easier!

I also participated in a discussion forum about my research topic this week as well! It was an all right for me as I used to be active in many other forums but I found the things that other people said to be very helpful in my research. Everyone seemed very kind and helpful towards me.

During the course of my studies, I had to do many reports that have requires me to do citations and bibliography. I feel that these two things are important in a report as we should always credit the person or book or paper that we took our information from. Another reason is also because of the fact that if we don’t do these two things, we will be accused of plagiarism which will make us fail instantly as well!