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RESEARCH USING THE INTERNET
ErindaleCollege
University of Toronto at Mississauga
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24 / More and more students are turning to the Internet when doing research for their assignments, and more and more instructors are requiring such research when setting topics. However, research on the Net is very different from traditional library research, and the differences may cause problems. The Net is a tremendous resource, but it must be used carefully and critically.
The printed resources you find in the Library have almost always been thoroughly evaluated by experts before they are published. This process of "peer review" is the difference between, for example, an article in Timemagazine and one in a journal such as the University of Toronto Quarterly. Furthermore, when books and other materials come into the University library system, they are painstakingly and systematically catalogued and cross-referenced using procedures followed by research libraries the world over. This process is the basis for the way materialsare organized in the Library, and it makes possible the various search functions of UTCAT.
On the Internet, on the other hand, "anything goes." Anyone can put anything they want on a Web site, there is no review or screening process, and there are no agreed-upon standard ways of identifying subjects and creating cross-references. This is both the glory and the weakness of the Net – it's either freedom or chaos, depending on your point of view, and it means that you should pay close attention when doing research on-line. There are a great many solid academic resources available on the Net, including hundreds of on-line journals and sitesset up by universities and scholarly or scientific organizations. The University of Toronto Library's Electronic Resources page is one such academic source, and we have listed others. Using material from those sources is no problem: it's just like going to the Library, only on-line. It's all the other stuff on the Net that you have to be cautious about.
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ANSWER THE QUESTIONS BELOW ACCORDING TO THE TEXT ABOVE:
46. What is happening to Internet these days? more and more academic people are using it for:
a)pleasure
b)playing games
c)research
d)making friends
47. In lines 4 and 5, "Net is a tremendous resource, but it must be used carefully and critically". The word must is classified as ______, and means ______.
a)verb – obligation
b)verb – warning
c)adverb – warning
d)adverb – obligation
48. What is the basic difference between research on the Net and traditional library research?
a)library research is evaluated, systematic and cross–referenced.
b)Net research is evaluated, cross–referenced and systematic.
c)Net research is not systematic, but it is cross–referenced.
d)library research is not systematic, but it is evaluated and cross–referenced.
49. In line 14, the sentence "On the Internet, on the other hand, anything goes". Means:
a)Internet has a system for cross–reference.
b)Internet is free for everyone to research.
c)Internetmaterial is cross–referenced.
d)Anyone can publish freely on the Internet.
50. In lines 15 and 16 "and there are no agreed–upon standard ways of identifying subjects and creating cross–references." The underlined words in the sentence are classified as:
a)continuous tense
b)nouns
c)gerunds as indirect objects
d)gerunds as object of preposition.