Self-study: "Internet Detective" Tutorial

For the homework tasks of "Internet Detective" Tutorial, I visited the website of Internet Detective at the following address: http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/detective/index.html and found a number of interesting techniques of Internet searching the academic study purposes.

The website tries to introduce a good lesson for using internet effectively in the University. It said, a number of common errors that lead to students' failed examinations or assignments are: (i) Students sometimes obtain needed information for their assignments unintendedly in untrusted websites; (ii) Students do not get all necessary sources of information; (iii) Students got into a trouble called as plagiarism.

To solve the above problem, students should learn to use appropriate internet information for their study by getting to know which website is useful, valuable, up-to-dated, some internet tools to check the quality of internet website, what students need to avoid when searching for information in internet, what students need do to check the content of information and the origin of information and how to do all these things by students themselves. All the things mentioned above will be shaping good skills of Internet searching for students and they are very helpful for students in the University.

The "Internet Detective" also introduces some tips of what students learn by websites' address, plagiarism & copyright, citation & referencing as well as some practice exercises to check students' newly learned lessons, all of which are needed and important for every student in the University.

All the strategies of internet searching mentioned above are not new, but again I find them interesting, useful, helpful and worthy for my University study now and in the future. I will apply this widened knowledge of internet searching to avoid the most common mistakes that the failed students mentioned above committed and this helps me to improve my study results afterward.