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Even experienced users will learn tips for getting around on the Internet!, May 20, 2008
This review is from: About.com Guide to Online Research: Navigate the Web—from RSS and the Invisible Web to Multimedia and the Blogosphere (About.com Guides) (Paperback)
I thought I was pretty good when it came to getting around
on the Internet, but was I ever pleasantly surprised to learn
that I could still learn a great deal . . . and did by reading
THE ABOUT.COM GUIDE TO ONLINE RESEARCH by Wendy Boswell.
You'll also learn, too, regardless of your level of computer
sophistication . . . the material is very readable and
oh-so-informative . . . for example, to find the weather for
where you live, just go to the google website and type-in
weather: then your five-digit zip code . . . you immediately are
taken to a very visual listing that will provide all the information
you need by just looking at it (and not having to click further).
You'll get many tips that I've never seen elsewhere; e.g., this one
deals with how to deal with bibliographies:
There's EasyBib. a free automatic bibliography
composer; Cornell University Library's excellent in-depth article on how
to prepare an annotated bibliography; and writer Diana Hacker's informative how-to tutorial . . . all the specific web citations can be found in the book.
And you'll also find websites galore on such topics as finding crime
statistics, weird news, comparison shopping, job hunting, specific
diseases, and everybody's favorite, time wasting.
Lastly, if such terms as "blogs" and "RSS feeds" still throw you,
you'll no longer need to fear them if you just spend a little
time this most informative guide . . . I'd tell you more, but
it would take away from the time that I still want to spend
on trying just some of the things I've learned from Boswell's book.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Great help for all skill levels, March 23, 2009
This review is from: About.com Guide to Online Research: Navigate the Web—from RSS and the Invisible Web to Multimedia and the Blogosphere (About.com Guides) (Paperback)
Highly recommended, even though the title is a bit misleading in that it seems to emphasize "research" when in fact the book is more of a tutorial (for all levels of experience) on many current web tools and practices. Given that every page has numerous url's (web addresses) as tips to find good sites, a few pages make the price a bargain. Easy to read, and you can start anywhere. Or use the index for the item you're interested in and chances are you'll immediately find something useful.
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Great ideas..., April 26, 2009
This review is from: About.com Guide to Online Research: Navigate the Web—from RSS and the Invisible Web to Multimedia and the Blogosphere (About.com Guides) (Paperback)
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