Conducting Electronic Research

The following demonstration illustrates a News search for articles regarding Chinese oil drilling off the Cuban coast. A preliminary list of keyword phrases might include the following:

• Chinese oil drilling
• Cuban offshore oil fields
• Cuban-Chinese Treaties
• supplying Chinese oil needs
• oil in international waters
• oil drilling Florida straits

The researcher uses Ask.com News to search for one of the phrases on the list above. Feel free to click on Ask.com News and become the researcher yourself. The screen-shot below illustrates the home page.

Notice the directory menu on the right side of the browser window is preset to the standard Web default. Any keywords you type into the search field will search the entire Web. However, if you select News from the menu the search will confine itself only to news organizations with a Web presence.

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