DAY.three

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Went through lecture 3 and practical 3 worksheets, learnt quite a few new things. To me is like some hidden research method or so because it does not commonly seen people using such a method to do their research. The method is something like (impact OR effect*) AND (child* or kid*) ...... just putting this important keywords will ended up having the results that we might be looking for. Amazingly, it does helps a lot. It narrows down to the website information that you are looking for.

Worksheets are slowly becoming more challenging and the questions requires a lot of research too. Comparisons between two search engines as well. Even though the search engines (Google and Scholar google) is under the same GOOGLE, it works differently. Basically both google and scholar google categorise their resources, however the way each of them does the search differently.

Next, the participation in discussion forum. I started a post in about.com whereby surprisingly they do have a section just for Alcoholism topics. You can start anything related to that from general to problems to helps. It was a little nervous while starting a new post in the forum because you wouldn't know what the people will reply. They might probably just screw up your whole post or just debate a lot about your topic. Personally, I felt that replying in the forums should be careful with our sentences because people might get the wrong idea and starts to argue in the forums. Somehow that's what happened to my first attempt in the forum. There was a slight arguement.

The replies the people gives, some are rather useful for my research as much as they know what you actually want to know about. Some replies might go a little too in depth till it is a little far off from the answer you actually wanted. People actually share their real life experiences which give you an idea of how it is like. Indeed I felt so much anxious while talking to them. People who you do not know, actually gives you great suggestions and they guide you through if your questions or answers are somewhat wrong. It is great to communicate through forum for some reasons.

That are reasons to do citation and bibliography. One of them is that it will helps you greatly in your work. With the list of citation and bibliography, any time you can refer to the links there if you need them in future. The other reason is that to credit the resources which you use it help out in the research. Furthermore, without proper citation might lead to plagiarism which is an serious offend.

That's it for today..

Puttputt, signing off...