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went to library, find, iris and other tutorials, Academic Search, brought me to Ebsco host, typed in title, first article, then find it, then clicked on link for deep

For open web, simply typed in title with Wall Street Journal in google which brought me to directly to the article on the Wall Street Journal website.
Authority:
Clay didn't appear to have any degrees to give him academic authority and did not cite anyone. It appeared to be a comment piece with a little well known info about the Gutenberg press thrown in with lots of personal opinions
Source:
while I was able to find it in ProQuest and it was in the Wall Street Journal, which are reputable, I didn't find anything else that would show me this was authoritative. I did a search on him as well and couldn't really find anything.

Purpose:
The purpose was to make the reader think about how information sharing is affecting society. His opinion seems to be maybe too many people thought it would be bad and likens it to when the press first came on the scene some people wrote things that were not edifying and leaned toward pornography

Evenness:
It was a comment that didn't really seem to lean to too many people thought it would be bad (the internet). Written in June 4, 2010

Coverage:
Since it was 1283 words, it didn't go terribly deep. Just an overview of his opinion.

Timeliness: The way it was written, it could have been written today or a couple of years ago. It is still relevant.

He gives an opinion that the past was not golden or the present as tawdry as the pessimist think. He feels the internet has actually restored us to reading and writing because we were just watching different strokes before. For myself, I find that untrue. I actually read more, but again, I feel what he had to say was an opinion with a little well known fact.
He also claims that people think every time we make any strides in new media it will make young people stupid. I guess it depends on if they were stupid before, so maybe what it really does is bring their stupidity to the forefront, or their intelligence, for the world to see. The question would be, what are they doing with it?
He says that we had erotic novels 100 years before scientific journals. I don't know what that was based on because there are no citings. Personally, I thought there were philosophers writing away on ideas that bordered on the scientific, but due to limited time, I can't research it.
Personally, he sounds like he thinks the majority of society thinks this internet thing is bad. I really don't understand where he gets that from. Being older, I know very few people that think that way, but maybe it depends on who you hang out with and what they do with it.

unit 9

http://www.twoplayfulotters.com/students/Khiland.html

Here is mine. I changed some color fonts and put my name in the title. I also put things on the list. As far as my understanding goes, I don't know. It was a little confusing and I had to keep trying and trying to get it to upload. Its hard for me to get much out of it when I couldn't figure it out. I don't know what I would use it for but I suppose if I had to, I would maybe recognize it enough to upload it.

AB K.hiland, unit 9

I am finding the directions for this confusing and do not see the example I thought were supposed to be posted.
However I looked at About.com written by Alison Doyle who appears to be an authority who has written books and worked in the field for many years. Alison holds a bachelor's degree from Indiana University and has completed several years of employee benefit and information technology coursework. It is a 28 page article and appears to have plenty of coverage. I do not see any advertisements and the purpose seems to be solely to help people find jobs on the internet. I used google  and entered "jobs and searching online"

In ProQuest, I found and article Finding a job in the Internet Age put out by the University of North Carolina press. There are charts and graphs and a lot of footnotes. It was written by Christine Fountain from the University of Washington. While it was written in 2005, much of the info came from sources like Harvard, and the American Journal of Sociology and appear to be relevant. The purpose is to inform readers on finding jobs via the internet. Here again, plenty of coverage

The .gov was http://www.bls.gov/oco/oco20042.htm on job search methods. I used the same search words. It was written by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It was last updated December 17, 2009. The main purpose is to inform on job searching and has a mission and vision statement. I can't find who the actual author was or any citations. There are no advertisements. There was minimal coverage and seemed to be the least helpful.


.org was http://www.job-hunt.org/ with links to 18375 websites, so it certainly has no shortage of coverage, employers and resources. The purpose of the Job-Hunt.Org Web site is to provide the most comprehensive listing of employer recruiting page links, the best Internet-accessible legitimate job-search resources and services on the Web, and the best and most up-to-date advice from genuine job search and career experts.  From the beginning in 1998, the focus is on avoiding scams and protecting job seeker privacy. It was last updated 28 November 2011and has no advertising. It has the obvious purpose of helping people find work. It had the following markings to look for:

• * Job-Hunt Sponsors are carefully screened for quality and ethics.
• -- a site we particularly liked when we reviewed it, an award based on merit, not money.
• -- a resource added to Job-Hunt within the last 30 days. The about said The purpose of the Job-Hunt.Org Web site is to provide the most comprehensive listing of employer recruiting page links, The list of awards and recognition include:
• FORTUNE/CNN Money, Ask Annie - Does Your Boss Know You're Job Hunting?
• Jobs.AOL - Hot Job Site: Job-Hunt.org
• Reader's Digest and RD.com - Your Next Job
• TIME and time.com - Fake Jobs: Work-Search Scams on the Rise in Recession
• FORTUNE/CNN Money, Ask Annie - Leave now or risk getting laid off
• Newsweek - Job Woes, Health Blues?
• FORTUNE/CNN Money, Ask Annie - Job offer or identity-theft scam
• TIME and time.com - The New Rules of Web Hiring
• Richard (What Color Is Your Parachute?) Bolles - Job-Hunt.org: # 1 in the Best Gateway Sites
• US News & World Report: Best Comprehensive Sites for Finding Work
• Forbes.com - Best of the Web for Job Hunting: Job-Hunt.org
• JibberJobber Blog - Job-Hunt.org: A Website You Can Trust
• Link-Up Digital - Job-Hunt.org: One-Stop Job Hunting on the Web
• SearchEngineWatch - Job-Hunt.org: An Old-Fashioned Success Story
• Quintessential Careers Site Award: Job-Hunt.org
• PC Magazine Best of the Internet for Careers
• Since 2006, U.S. News & World Report Top Site for Finding Work
• Since 2002, Forbes Best of the Web for Job Hunting

This last one seemed to be like a one stop shopping place for all your job searching needs although, the first one looks like a good article to read as well.

reasearch journal, Part 8

AltaVista is the first search tool that I tried.This particular one has boxes that you can enter what words you want to use that take the place of boolean operators, truncating, and phrases.



You can then choose what type of domain you want. .com, or only .edu, etc.
You can also choose what site you would like, as well as what file format and finally, you can filter out adult web sites


Metacrawler is set up with the same boxes for choices as AltaVista. You also can choose language and whether or not to include a domain. You can also use preferences to to set filters and bold search teerms. You can also track and search the 15 most recent searchs

Infomine, is the last one I choose. In the search tips, it shows all the different ways of fine tuning:




This is a partial list.
You can also do an advanced search options:



They also have canned_search where you can use an interactive form  to set complex query terms and search options, then generates an URL to perform it. You will find this under customize on the dark blu ribbon. You can also query by a pull-down menu by subject under customize and publications on the dark blue ribbon. Finally, at the bottom under other search tools, it gives more hints of using quotaion marks and the + and - signs. You can also hop to google, altavista, all the web and hotbot

ctec 115 part 7

After entering the original search statement 2837 documents found for: ((job or "employment") ) AND (internet) AND ((search* or look*)) is what came back. There was a box at the bottom with suggestions, so I chose Internet AND Employment. What came back was:

127 documents found for: Internet AND Employment

The first is from a scholarly journal. It is from the Black Collegian and a no nonsense article with a lot of facts. Bruce is a frequent contributor who worked for a dot-com employment firm and is a member of the Association of Internet Recruiting.

Calvin Bruce.  "The Internet: the Indispensable Tool for Job Hunting. " Black Collegian  1 Feb. 2004: Research Library, ProQuest. Web.  10 Nov. 2011.

This is another one that I found that came from a newspaper

 Jill Rachlin Marbaix.  "Job Search 2.OH!; There are some new rules of the road for searching the Web for work. " U.S. News & World Report  8 Mar. 2004: Research Library, ProQuest. Web.  10 Nov. 2011.

 Finally, I found this one from a magazine:

Calcari, Susan, and Solock, Jack. "What Color Is Your Parachute: The Net Guide / Riley Guide: Employment Opportunities and Job Resources on the Internet. " Choice  1 Jan. 1997: Research Library, ProQuest. Web.  10 Nov. 2011.

The reason I chose this article was because I thought enough people had heard of it and in the abstract it says that "Two online reference guides for job seekers and career changers are discussed" It is 30 pages which should give enough information without having to go out and get the book, a person could glean plenty of information. I would have to order it, though. I was unable to find it anywhere after checking google scholar as well as online in general. I still think it would be interesting to read.

As I mentioned before, I did change my search statement. The first search came back with far too much so I did find the suggestion box at the bottom and tried it. It worked much better, coming back with 127, which was a far more reasonable amount. I didn't feel that I needed to look at any other sites and that 127 was plenty to pick from. I would have to order a couple of these but they did seem worthy of the time and effort to do that after reading the abstracts. I feel that I have a much better understanding after doing this exercise.

reasearch journal, Part 6

Part 1:

1. president* elect* reform (issues or problems or chaleng*) ("electoral college" and "popular vote"
2. tv* ad* ("pharmaceutical" or drug or "prescription") abuse
3. college grad* "earn*" (over or more) HS* (grad* or diploma)
4.AMA "natural medicine" (stand or recomend* or feel)
5. ("US* trade" or globalization)  polic*

Part 2:
Using the internet to do job searches
(job or "employment") internet (search* or look*)