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My lessons ended early today, and so I was early for my class! When the teacher arrived, she immediately told us what to do for today and also for the next week because our next tutorial happens to fall on Hari Raya, so we have no physical class for next week!

After which, my teacher showed us practical 3 and ask us to do a research on the search engine- Google.com and Google scholar.com.

I started with Google's search functions because I have always been using it whenever I need to do my project or have any doubts in my studies. Thus, I think that it will be easier for me to gather information because I’m more familiar with it.

For google.com, I think that it has much more features as compared to Google scholar. It allows us to search for videos and images, whereas we can’t do so on google scholar.com. Other than that, whenever we need to search information on a particular topic, what we need to do is just to type in the keyword or the synonyms of it which is related to the topic. Millions of URL links would then appear on the monitor. From the headings of the URL, I can easily pick the website I want visit and to obtain the information I needed. Besides this, if we have any spelling mistakes on our keyword search, google.com has the automatic correction or suggestion keyword to help rectify the mistake.

As for google scholar, it is my first time I have heard of it. I was wondering what website exactly is it? Why would the teacher give us such a weird website name that I have never come across before? Alright, after I typed in the URL, it really appeared! I realise it is actually a website for us to search on books, magazines or journals together with the author's name and when is the book published.

For me I preferred google.com because I think that google.com showed us more information which is straight to the point whereas google scholar.com showed us only books. Moreover, I think that some books are not up to date because it will take quite a long time for the authors to upload it.

At the end of the lesson, I also learnt that citation is also very important. It is consider as plagiarism if a report is not cited. Thus, it is very important to always acknowledge people's work when you adopt their words or ideas from them. Bibliography are also needed because we have to give readers the opportunity to identify the accuracy of the information shown in the passage. And it also offers additional information to readers who may wish to further pursue the topic.