Section 2: Identifying what Information You Need

Exercises

Exercise Instructions For the following questions, determine whether the examples are Scholarly, Magazine or Trade/Professional Journals or articles.

Cover of "Wired" including the title article "Robospaien Revolution:  Life as We'll Know It"
Scholarly journal
Magazine
Trade / Professional journal

Cover of "ComputerScope" with the title article "Broadband Blues Bedevil Business"

Scholarly journal
Magazine
Trade / Professional journal

 

Cover of "Journal of Computer and Systems Sciences"

Scholarly journal
Magazine
Professional / Trade journal

 

Cover of "Web Designer's Guide to Graphics PNG, GIF and JPEG"

Scholarly journal
Magazine
Professional / Trade journal

 

An article discussing ways to protect your personal privacy while shopping online.

Scholarly article
Magazine article
Professional / Trade article

An article that is a study about online shoppers' reluctance to provide personal information.

Scholarly article
Magazine article
Professional / Trade article

An article about how to fix a security weakness in a common encryption application.


Scholarly article
Magazine article
Professional / Trade article


  




 
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