Y . UIR practical 6a . Sunday, January 20, 2008 .
For UIR practical 6a, I'm suppose to choose a topic for my assignment 2 and find the keywords that I wish to use. I'm suppose to think of variations for each keyword too. Finally, I will need to search for two resources with search phrases we have created and evaluate one of the Internet resource.
My group has chosen the topic 'Discuss the impact of terrorism on the world economy'. The keywords my group have found out were 'impact', 'terrorism', 'world', 'economy'. For impact, we have variations words like effect, affect, influence, outcome. For terrorism, we have variations words like foreign attack. For world, we have variations words like global. For economy, we have variations words like financial progress.
We then come out with 1 search phrease: (impact OR effect) AND (terrorism OR “foreign attack”) AND (world OR global) AND (economy OR financial progress)
I found my first resource and the URL is: http://bluered-bluered.blogspot.com/2007/05/terrorism-and-world-economy.html
This website is actually found in a blog and it bascially give me some important information about the impact of terrorism on the world's economy like foreign investments drop after terrorism occurs which is overall result in a great impact of the world's economy.
The article in this website actually gets its source from another website. In that website, they have examples of how they calculate the impact of the economy, other risks which may affect the economy, graphs and statistics on the economy.
From this practical, I've learnt how to use boolean operators much better and with the help of key variations, I'm able to get more relavant results that I want. It is a very useful skill as I would apply it when I need to do a research on any my project or read up on any subject.