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Study Guide: Internet Skills
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Proficiency Test

  1. Go to the TekXam website http://www.tekxam.com.
    Use the bookmark feature in your browser to add this web page to the list of bookmarks.

  2. From the web page that you accessed in item 1, go to the home page of the browser.

  3. Go back to the previous page. After you complete this instruction, your URL address should be http://www.tekxam.com.

  4. Use two search engines to search for the following topic: Harry Potter Movie
    Describe the results from each search in terms of the following:

    5.  

    Search engine #1 _______________ (List the search engine name)

    Total number of sites:_____________

    First source listed:_____________________________

    Type of information presented in the annotation for the first source:____________________

    Search engine #2 _______________ (List the search engine name)

    Total number of sites:_____________

    First source listed:_____________________________

    Type of information presented in the annotation for the first source:____________________

  5. Indicate whether the following web sites belong to the advocacy, business/marketing, informational, news or personal categories.
  1. www.cnn.com ________________
  2. www.aclu.org ________________
  3. www.apple.com ________________
  4. www.state.wv.us/bep/lmi ________________
  5. www.lynchburg.edu/public/academic/business/murray.htm ________________

  1. Evaluate any two of the five sites in question 5, in terms of authority, accuracy, objectivity, currency and coverage.

    2. Site_____________________________________________________________

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    Site_____________________________________________________________

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  2. What documentation style do you expect to use when you write a research paper for an English class?__________________________________

  1. What documentation style do you expect to use when you write a research paper for a psychology course?____________________________

  2. What is the URL of the TekXam main page?

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