Super Searcher, Author, Scribe: Successful Writers Share Their Internet Research Secrets

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Summary: 300 Internet resources that have the highest recommendations
Review: Super Searcher, Author, Scribe: Successful Writers Share Their Internet Research Secrets is an informed and informative look at the enormous impact the Internet has had on the craft of writing, especially in its offer of a quick and easy way to search out up-to-date information on almost anything - assuming the savvy researcher knows how to weed out the genuinely useful content from the hype, errors, and disinformation! Fifteen professional journalists, book authors, writing teachers, and literary researchers share their wisdom in finding what one needs to know quickly, efficiently, and effectively. The additional Super Searchers Web Page features link to nearly 300 Internet resources that have the highest recommendations. Super Searcher, Author, Scribe is enthusiastically recommended as a superbly presented, "user friendly" reference manual for anyone eager to optimally exploit the 24 hour, 7 day a week easy-access wealth of informational resources that the Internet provides.

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Summary: How best to utilize the power of the Web
Review: The impact of the Internet on the writing profession is revolutionary, and Super Searcher Author Scribe draws upon experiences of leading journalists, authors, and researchers to tell how best to utilize the power of the Web. Links to almost 300 Internet resources accompany tips of successful writers.

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Summary: Will Greatly Contribute to Online Researching Endeavors!
Review: The Internet has become an ever-growing depository of information on every imaginable topic. Businesses, researchers, reporters, investigators, students, authors, shoppers, and Internet enthusiasts of all kinds make use of this information resource on a daily basis. Do they make the best use of it? Online researching is a discipline and there is a definite art and science for doing it right!

Loraine Page and Reva Basch have produced an outstanding collection of online researching experiences. Super Searcher, Author, Scribe features the experiences and advice of fourteen professional writers - a variety of authors, researchers, and Internet devotees who have proven track records. They offer quite different but equally successful approaches to using the Internet to gather information.

In a convenient question and answer format these writers discuss topics such as what their favorite search engines are - and why, what their favorite online information sources are, sorting through online information, how the Internet has helped their professional writing careers, the use of personal Websites, what kind of computer hardware and software they use, what kinds of online connectivity they have, and other general information. Additionally, they provide their own "super searcher power tips" for readers to pay particularly close attention to. An appendix lists cited Website URL's and other resources.

Readers will find this book insightful. The varying research experiences and methods shared will greatly contribute to their own online researching endeavors. Readers will glean from the contents of the book and develop their own individual strategies, determining what specific approaches will work best for them, resulting in more efficient use of their own research time, effort, and resources. This book is excellent reading for small businesses, teachers, students, researchers, and of course - writers!