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News Writing and Reporting for Today's Media, 7/e
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Exercise 11.1
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Exercise 11.7

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Computer-Assisted Reporting and Research

Review Questions



1

Define the following.
  1. CAR

  2. World Wide Web

  3. Internet

  4. Web browser

  5. Search engine

  6. Listserv

  7. Usenet news group

  8. Primary sources

  9. Secondary sources

  10. URL

  11. HTML

  12. e-mail

  13. Moderated listserv

  14. NICAR-L

2

What book started the computer-assisted reporting movement? Who was the author?
3

Name a Website for:
  1. A directory of Web sites

  2. Free e-mail

  3. A directory of e-mail listservs

  4. An archive of newsgroup messages

  5. A Web index generated by spider/robot software

  6. A metasearch database

4

What is the likely URL for:
  1. Ford Motor Co.

  2. Arizona State University

  3. The Audobon Society

  4. United States Marine Corps

5

What type of organization would use each of these domain name suffixes?
  1. .com

  2. .org

  3. .edu

  4. mil

  5. .net

6

What are the five criteria for evaluating a web page? List them below.




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