How To Do Accurate Searches For An American History Exam
Submitted by: TigerEye
When you study American History, you need a plan by which to hold to those things that are truly important. How do you do avoid those events in past history that clog up your learning of the really revolutionary events ? You can consider the opinions of others who are considered history professionals. You can also do a study yourself. Here we will learn about how to do a good search online that allows you to learn what are the most important events in Amerian History.
The first thing to do is to get good at searching. A search engine has something called "operators" that allow you do very specific searches. You can use this to your advantage when you are studying Amerian History. For instance the search site bing.com allows you to use the quotation marks around a set of words to get an exact phrase. This narrows down your search considerably if you apply it to American History. Put the quotation marks around "American History" and you get a return of only those pages that have that exact phrase. You can get more advanced and use two more words; "most significant" with the first two words. This will give you those pages that hopefully have the "most significant" events in American History. There will of course be extraneous pages that have little or nothing to do with what you are interested in.
Anolther thing you can use is the plus (+) symbol. This makes sure the search engine brings up those pages that have the word on the page that you include after the plus symbol. For example, if you put the phrase; "American History" +1812 ( just like it is written here ) you will of course get those pages that talk about American History during the important year of 1812. You will probably notice that encyclopedia.com is many returns down the list. If you have been using encyclopedia.com to get around, you can no doubt save time with some smart searching in a search engine.
Do not limit yourself to just the above "operators" and symbols.
There are others that are also powerful. One is the asterisk. This is one symbol you will want to use often. An example of using this symbol in your searches is to use it together with quotations. Such as; " * was the first time" "American History" ( just as it is written here ) will give you those pages that have various opinions on first occurences in American History.
Another powerful search tool is the minus sign (-). This allows you to exclude certain words that you do not want in your returns. An example of this is to put in the phrase; "American History" -corruption. This will show only those pages that do have the exact phrase; "American History" and do not have the word "corruption" in them.
You can mix and match the above to cook up your own powerful searches and learn more on American History from pages online. This short learning lesson on how to search online can be applied to other areas also. Once you learn how to exclude the fluff from your searches online you can be more productive with your time. This means you can be more productive with your life. The application of knowledge is power and you can have a truckload of it by learning to use search engine operators and symbols to your advantage.
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