ABSTRACT

One of the main strengths of the Internet is that anyone can make a resource available to anyone else, anywhere in the world. Making the most of online resources is an essential feature of studying so it is important to know what is involved and to think about the opportunities and challenges. This chapter gives some tips on searching for and making effective use of online resources. It also tells about good practice when using online resources for academic study and covers a very important issue: how to avoid plagiarism. The chapter gives some guidelines for searching and researching using a variety of online tools. Plagiarism is a major problem in student coursework which one can avoid by developing sensible search strategies and in making appropriate use of the resources which one find. Finding good quality Internet resources can be time consuming.