techniques, and compare

 Our goal will be to try out two new techniques, and compare how effective they are for meeting our search needs.  Specifically, we will search out information about our dream jobs–the career we hope to one day attain.  (If you’re independently wealthy and just in school for the fun of things, you’re welcome to consider ideal volunteer positions rather than careers…)

We will try several of these strategies as homework assignments throughout this module.  You will pick two to focus on specifically in your essay, from these options:

• a basic Google search
• a Google search by Reading Level
• a Google search using “related searches”
• a Google search using modifiers (specify which ones)
• a subject database, like About.com’s Jobs & Careers page (Links to an external site.) or iPL2 (Links to an external site.)
• a visual search engine, like Search-Cube (Links to an external site.) or Oolone (Links to an external site.)
• a tag cloud search engine, like Quintura (Links to an external site.)

Essay Requirements:
This essay should be at least 750 words (about 3 pages double-spaced, depending on your font size). Your essay should also include a title.  We will be incorporating MLA style & citation elements into this essay–more on this to come.

This will be a thesis-driven essay, meaning that your essay will need to include a statement that indicates which search strategy is better for finding accurate, useful information about your chosen career. Assume that your readers are people like yourself who are interested in the same career.