Searching the Web Activity 3

 

by Rowena Namoca, Nancy Willis, and Craig Cunningham

  Final Activity
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ACTIVITY 3

Subject Directories Activity


1. Type http://www.yahoo.com in the location box (address box) of your Internet Browser.

2. Press Enter
The Yahoo! Home Page should now display

3. From the subject list provided, choose and click a category of your interest to follow.

4. Choose titles that are increasingly more specific until there are no more options of interest offered.

5. Scroll through the references of the hits and click a hit that interests you to get an abstract or title of the reference

6. How effective was this method in obtaining the information that you need? What would you change about this proceedure next time?

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