2014OCT ENC-102-OL011
Thomas Edison State College
Written Assignment # 2
Submitted: October 10, 2014
Mentor: Miriam Redcay
Assignment: Research analysis.
Research analysis
The first writing assignment for ENC-102 involves some level of research on newspapers articles, journals, or online that discuss the value, soundness, or impact of online education. I began my research on the internet using Google as my search engine. Wanting to know more information about conducting research on how different search engines work. I found that different search engines function very differently. For example, according to internet access review “Google links ranking engines, which mean they consider the relevance and importance of the links that link to a website”. Yahoo rank by general content they look at keywords in the webpage’s content. Therefore, different search engines provide different results”.
For my research topic, I selected “impact of online education” and “trends of online education”. Not surprising I came across an endless list of articles on the impact of online education, from personal experience to scholarly articles. Remembering from previous classes about online research it came to mind that …show more content…
I often use my subscriptions to online library databases like the National Defense University or the Joint Forces Staff College for research. To narrow the research, I utilized the National Defense University library database for articles and other information available on government and educational websites. These more reliable websites are easily identified by their domain names end in .edu, .gov, a reliable site should describe the evidence opinions, or advice should be clearly