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Exercise 2
Instructors using this tutorial in conjuction with
an engineering course may use this exercise as a team
assignment.
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An engineering problem will be provided
for each team
Each team will use one search engine and perform
the following exercise :
- Determine the best term(s) to use in
your search strategy
- Narrow your search
- Open a second window
- Narrow your search again using a different
method
- Open a third window
- Expand your search
Now you should have three windows open each
with the results of a different search strategy.
- Compare the results from each of the
three searches.
- Number
of hits
- Number
of sites
relevant
to your
topic
among
the first
10 hits
- Number
of sites
that
are worth
using
- accuracy,
timeliness,
technical,
reliability
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