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Post by The Rocketmen on Aug 20, 2014 11:59:22 GMT -5
smoggier
Web definitions
(smogginess) smog: air pollution by a mixture of smoke and fog
Got that off GOOGLE.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2014 12:05:43 GMT -5
What would you do without Google??
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Post by The Rocketmen on Aug 20, 2014 12:29:28 GMT -5
Probably become you.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2014 12:56:04 GMT -5
I use Google. Sometimes.
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Post by The Sandmen on Aug 21, 2014 0:10:36 GMT -5
Google has all information. It's smart to use Google. As long as you know how to filter good information and bad information.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2014 1:00:39 GMT -5
Yes so no Wikipedia or Ask.com or Yahoo.
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Post by The Sandmen on Aug 21, 2014 2:04:52 GMT -5
Quite the contrary. Wikipedia is a great source of information (as long as you double-check sources about anything suspect). Wikipedia is everything a true encyclopedia should be. It's a society's collection of shared knowledge, filtered and fine-tuned by not just a small group of academics, but everyone (yet still with expert oversight and vandalism-monitoring). Wikipedia is an internet win.  |
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Post by The Rocketmen on Aug 21, 2014 6:42:19 GMT -5
I LOVE wikipedia. If I get stuck on an idea or am just curious about something, it's my go-to destination.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2014 9:38:13 GMT -5
Quite the contrary. Wikipedia is a great source of information (as long as you double-check sources about anything suspect). Wikipedia is everything a true encyclopedia should be. It's a society's collection of shared knowledge, filtered and fine-tuned by not just a small group of academics, but everyone (yet still with expert oversight and vandalism-monitoring). Wikipedia is an internet win. Try telling my teachers that. What I usually do is get my whole project from Wikipedia and then I put different sites as my sources. Works every time |
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Post by The Sandmen on Aug 21, 2014 9:44:28 GMT -5
Yeah, practice NOT doing that. It will teach your brain to not know how to filter information, and especially if you want to be a lawyer or a GM, you need to get used to fact-checking information. Use Wikipedia, find information, then use the links to the sources to find the actual decent information.
ALso, that might work in High School, but come university, you will get SHREDDED. So it's good to get in the habit of doing that BUT taking the extra step to see what the sources were for the wikipedia article and using those, or THEIR sources.
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Post by The Rocketmen on Aug 21, 2014 9:54:45 GMT -5
Also, Google Scholar helps.
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Post by The Sandmen on Aug 21, 2014 9:59:18 GMT -5
J-STOR rocks it. But being a high-schooler, I doubt you have access to that.
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Post by The Rocketmen on Aug 21, 2014 10:03:17 GMT -5
Yeah, that's why I mentioned google scholar instead.
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Post by The Sandmen on Aug 21, 2014 11:00:02 GMT -5
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Post by The Rocketmen on Aug 21, 2014 11:11:59 GMT -5
sigh.
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