Reflections on UIR Practical 6a

In this assignment 2, there were quite a few topics that were quite interesting and we found them closed to our daily lives. Topics like impact of drugs abuse on youths, usage of blogging in businesses After a short and brief discussion, the group decided to choose the developments in the market for 3G mobile devices as this topic is something that we, teenagers are most aware of these days. The ever changing technologies strike our heads and we believed that we could do a good job on this topic.

The keywords used in the Yahoo! Search included development, 3G market, 3G devices and 3G hand phones. With the help of the thesaurus, I managed to find out about the key variations of 3G Advancement, 3G improvement, Growth in 3G business, Growth in 3G market, Development of 3G equipments, appliances, accessories and 3G cell phones, 3G mobile phone, Third generation market growth and more. With these search phrases, I began my research at Yahoo! Search. However, there were too many search results, i applied what i had learnt in assignment 1, that was using the advanced search option to enhance and get better search results.

Basically it was still difficult to start and search for a good and reliable source to evaluate. I ended up with an source at searchmobilecomputing.com on Mobile and Wireless Protocols. Base on the template provided, I started evaluating and at the same time, browsed through and clicked on all links to find out more about the site so that i could evaluate more in depth. Following the template, I evaluate each criteria which included purpose, coverage, authority, accuracy, currency, accessibility, presentation and arrangement, usability and overall. As this was the first time i ever evaluate a resource with so many criteria, i started off carefully. The guide point in the template provided an idea on what should be written on each. With the additional help of lecture notes downloaded, I added on other points not written in the template to improve my overall evaluation.