| Getting Around
Each part of the ENG312 Module Web Site can be reached by using the Index in the Contents Frame of the Home Page, or else by clicking on the relevant title in the Green Navigation Frame on the left of the Contents Page. In most cases, links will carry you back and forward but in some cases a link will create a new page which appears over the current one. Here are some useful tips in either case.
Browser “history”
Most people use the “Back” and
“Forward” buttons in the Menu Bar to move through the pages they have visited in any internet session. This is made possible by Javascript, an internet code which records your browser “history”. Those moves can always be made using CTRL and the left/right keys on your keyboard.
| TIP: You can switch off the “Standard Buttons” in the View Menu of the browser in order to gain more screen space for text and images on your monitor. |
New pages/windows
Most times, a new page appears in the contents frame of this website, replacing the one previously displayed. In some cases, the new page will appear on top of the old one without closing it. A “pop up” window of this kind has no navigation frame on the left hand side. It can be moved around the screen, maximised or minimised.
| TIP: Did you know that double-clicking on the horizontal bar at the top of any window has the same effect? |
Because it is a separate window, you
can return to where you where before the new page opened by clicking anywhere on the old one. To close it, you only have to click “X”
at the top right-hand corner. Otherwise, you can click the “Close” command which I have placed in the navigation bar at the bottom
of each one of these “pop-up” pages.
| “Pop-up” pages on this web site supply extra information that is not part of the academic contents of the site - like this one. |
Get toggling!
If you minimise a window it can be brought back by clicking on the relevant tab on the Status Line of your Internet Browser unless this is turned off in Menu View. (Better turn it on now!) Alternately, you can “toggle” from one window and/or application to the other.
Toggling can be done by clicking on the top bar of the applications in question, or by minimising the current one so that you can see the other. But it can be done more easily using the keyboard combination ALT+TAB at the same time.
| TIP: Try toggling between applications or internet pages using the thumb and index finger on your left hand. |
The great advantage of “toggling” between applications is that you can trawl through web pages and write an essay in your word-processor at the same time - copying material from one to the other!
Do’s & Don’ts
Quite of lot of information relating to the authors on this module can be found on internet at sites other than those which are named in the Reading List. You can find these using Google search engine. There is nothing wrong with using Google or any other method of retrieving information - but use your head!
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Prioritise the links you discover and only follow those which are relevant to the subject ...
Use a wordprocessor to record the important things you find there ...
Use “Add to Favourites” to keep a record of sites you visit so you can return to them in future ...
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| Don’t |
Assume that the information and presentation on any page is accurate and acceptable ...
Rely on Google to the exclusion of the Module Reading List, the Library and the Online Catalogue ...
Quote textual material whose author(s) you cannot cite by personal or institutional name ...
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You probably know all these things and more already! If you have any corrections or suggestions for my benefit or that of other students, please don’t hesitate to contact me here to pass them on.
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