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=TSCA Conference - October 9, 2009=

Mark Batik, Jesuit College Prep
An analysis of how to use online tools to aid the research process across all events, includ-ing: policy, LD, congress, extemp, and public forum. Presenters will look at online jour-nals, search engines, news services, news feeds, and databases.

1. Overview
- Patience, Practice, Planning - Let your computer work for you - Stay connected with Alumni

2. Available debate resources
- [|Open Evidence Project]- free files! - [|NDCA Wiki] - case lists - Dartmouth Debate Institute research guides - [|GA Forensics Daily - Camp Lectures] - College caselist

3. Internet research tools
- [|The googles] - Web - News - **Scholar - 1. cited by, 2. similar articles

- [|GAPS] - proximity searches in google

- [|UT Library]

5. "Pimp your browser" Ross Smith
- Google Reader - Delicious - Zotero - [|Debate add-on] for firefox -[| Deeper Web] for firefox - [|Screenshot Pimp] for firefox

6. Improving your searches
- STEAL LANGUAGE (copy and paste whole phrases) - Use boolean operators - Quotations " " - searches the exact phrase - in google - capitalize AND, OR, - - search within a website. site: www.gpoaccess.gov - Search settings - 100 hits - BOOKS

7. Briefing and processing evidence
Naveen Ramachandrappa's guide to research and templates [] How to do some document processing using Word 97-03

8. Rostrum resources (from [|wikipedia])
Great articles! Somewhat dated, but highly useful. David Cheshier's article, in particular, offers many useful tips that we couldn't cover today because of limited time.
 * Bauschard, Stefan. (2002). [|Debate Research on the World Wide Web]. //Rostrum//. Retrieved December 30, 2005.
 * Cheshire, David. (2002). [|Improving Your Research Skills]. //Rostrum//. Retrieved December 30, 2005.
 * Ludlum, Marty. (1999). [|Using Legal Materials in Debate]. //Rostrum//. Retrieved December 31, 2005.
 * Massey, Jackie. (2001). [|Using Internet Research in Competitive Debate]. //Rostrum//. Retrieved December 30, 2005.
 * Dartmouth Debate Workshop (2008). Evidence/Briefing instruction handouts

9. Team resources
- Google groups - Wikispaces - Dropbox