The Essential Guide to Using the Web for Research - Brossura

Ford, Nigel

 
9780857023650: The Essential Guide to Using the Web for Research
Brossura
ISBN 10: 0857023659 ISBN 13: 9780857023650
Casa editrice: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2011

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This book will be vital reading for anyone doing research, since using the web to find high quality information is a key research skill. It introduces beginners and experts alike to the most effective techniques for searching the web, assessing and organising information and using it in a range of scenarios from undergraduate essays and projects to PhD research.

Nigel Ford shows how using the web poses opportunities and challenges that impact on student research at every level, and he explains the skills needed to navigate the web and use it effectively to produce high quality work.

Ford connects online skills to the research process. He helps readers to understand research questions and how to answer them by constructing arguments and presenting evidence in ways that will enhance their impact and credibility.

The book includes clear and helpful coverage of beginner and advanced search tools and techniques, as well as the processes of:

@!critically evaluating online information

@!creating and presenting evidence-based arguments

@!organizing, storing and sharing information

@!referencing, copyright and plagiarism.

As well as providing all the basic techniques students need to find high quality information on the web, this book will help readers use this information effectively in their own research.

Nigel Ford is Professor in the University of Sheffield′s Information School.

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Nigel Ford is Professor in the University of Sheffield′s Information School.

Dalla quarta di copertina

Nigel Ford provides readers with the strategies they need when using the internet as part of their research and guides them through the necessary skills needed to independently conduct and evaluate research.

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Editore
SAGE Publications Ltd
Data di pubblicazione
2011
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0857023659
ISBN 13 
9780857023650
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
256
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
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ISBN 10:  0857023640 ISBN 13:  9780857023643
Casa editrice: Sage Pubns Ltd, 2011
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