EIR Practical 3

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I am really glad that i have attended this lesson as i felt that the lesson that i have learnt today would most probably be the best that i could have learnt in EIR as in today's lesson, i learnt about bibliography and also internet search.

When i say internet search, it doesn't mean that typing the word in the search bar and hitting the enter/search button. i meant that how to search the internet more specifically on the topic that you are looking for. For example, my topic is <Discuss the trends and developments of the genetically modified food industry.>. If i were to put the whole question into the search bar, it would give me a lot of results and at least 50% of them are irrelevant. So to scale down the search results to make it more accurate, i was taught how to substitute words to and to use inverted commas to group the words together so as to make the search more accurate and to make it accurate. So my search would look like this < Trends AND development AND "GM food" AND industry> or < (Trends OR Pattern) AND (development OR future) AND "GM food" AND (industry OR society). So in this way, my search in Google that might initially be 150million results would be scaled down to maybe 5million results.

Next is bibliography. Another word for bibliography is citation. It is very important to cite where you get your information from, who, and also when. Without doing so, you might be deemed as plagiarism. So in today's lesson i am also taught how to do a bibliography. There are also certain ways in doing this citation and not just stating the website on where you get your information from. In bibliography, we have to cite the author's name, date of publication, retrieved date and the url. And all of them have to be in order and if there are multiple citations, it also have to be in alphabetical order.