Document (#18782)

Author

Hill, J.R.

Title

¬The World Wide Web as a tool for information retrieval : an exploratory study of users' strategies in an open ended system

Source

School library media quarterly. 25(1997) no.4, S.229-236

Year

1997

Abstract

Reports on a exploratory study of the widely popular but little understood open ended system, the WWW. Includes a case study of 10 adults taking an introductory course on technology for educators, thus providing insights into the strategies peole use for extracting information from the Web. Points to the importance of both cognitive and metacognitive strategies to successful searching

Theme

Internet

Object

WWW

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