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CST 227: Business & Professional Communication (Aquila-Alexandria)

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Evaluate websites that have information you would like to use in your assignments. 

Look on each website for an "About Us" page to answer some of the following questions:

  • Who is the author?        
  • What are his/her qualifications?
  • Why was the website created?
  • When was it last updated?
  • How reliable is the information?

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What's the employment outlook for graphic designers?

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Here's how to craft a better search to get fewer and more relevant results:

  • Identify the main ideas in your research question.
          What's the employment outlook for graphic designers?
     
  • Use quotation marks around 2 or more words that need to be together.
          "graphic designer" 
     
  • Limit your search to a specific domain, such as .edu, .gov, or .org.
          "graphic designer" outlook site:.gov

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