Pratical 3

Hello....

TODAY, the topic i am researching on is "Discuss the impact of drugs abuse on youths"
we need to make use of the various search facilitites to do our research. we need to use the 3 search tools which are the Search engine, Meta search engine and Subject directory.


Search Engine--> http://www.google.com.sg/
Website--> http://www.unodc.org/youthnet/youthnet_youth_drugs.html
Comment--> It gives us more information what are drugs all about, the effect of drug, how do they come about. In addition, it also gives us various ways to conduct drug abuse prevention programmes in our community.


Meta Search Engine-->http://www.kartoo.com/
Website--> http://www.denisonia.com/police/Drug.htm
Comment--> It is not as relevant as it gives us specifically the effect and how the drugs are being used. it does not give us the general reasons and effects on the drugs on the youth


Subject Directory-->http://www.go.com/
Website-->http://www.ncjrs.gov/htm/chapter2.htm
Comment--> The websites give us relatively information regarding the drug abuse on youth, the consequences on the health, and gives us the different information of the common drugs used by the youth nowadays.


Reflection
After doing the research, several learning points i learnt was:

All the search facilities allow us to find relevant information through the inputs of keywords that allows us to find information that are relevant to us. After searching, all of them would show the website title and also a short description.Search engine and subject directory allows us to find relevant keywords easily through the finding of keywords in the website and is easy to navigate as well. However, for the meta search engine I found it rather difficult to navigate as it is being classified to difficult subjects. Overall, I would prefer the subject directory search facility best compared to the other search methods as it helps us to search on the subject we are looking for.

Thanks. Hope you all can leave some comment to tell me if its relevant to you or not.
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