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By Paul Gil, About.com Guide to Internet for Beginners since 2004

"How Should Students Use the Web?"

Friday October 20, 2006
College, uni, and high school students: quit fumbling with Google, and then quoting the first web site you find! That kind of lazy fumbling is just not good enough for legitimate research. Instead, there are proven and recognized techniques for using the Internet as a formal academic resource. From researching "Deep Web" content, to verifying the source, to proper citing and footnoting, here is your primer to doing proper Internet research...

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August 25, 2006 at 10:08 pm
(1) tin11 says:

For high students, I have always encouraged my them to do internet research. But what so alarming about it, is that the students find it very hard to thoroughly research using the net. Thanks for your blog . Maybe I could discuss the techniques you have suggested to them and see how it would work for them.

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