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Text Analysis: Q & A sites on
the Internet
Do you need the answer to a
tricky question? Would you like some help understanding a difficult concept?
You can always try one of the Question and Answer (Q&A) sites on the World
Wide Web. These are places you can submit a question for an expert to answer.
Before you start clicking, however, there are a few things you should know.
Most
Web sites offering expert assistance also keep an archive. This is a collection
of all previous questions and answers—or at least the most frequently asked
questions (FAQs). So check out the site’s archive before submitting your question. If
your question has already been answered in their archive, some sites will not
respond to your e-mail.
Other
sites require a certain time frame to respond—perhaps two days, or even longer.
Still other sites select and answer only one question of all those received in
a day or a week. And they answer it only on a message board. That means you
have to visit the message board frequently to see if your question was chosen.
Some interesting Q&A sites are listed below. Just remember that Web sites
change frequently. If one site doesn’t work, try another one!
• www.howstuffworks.com
for help with science projects
• www.science.ca/ask/
150 Canadian scientists answer
your questions
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• www.ipl.org/youth/
great references for kids from
the Internet Public Library
Dr. Math accepts math
challenges.
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(Taken from Science and Technology Words,
Quinley, 2002, p. 93)
Read the text above to do the following
exercises!
A.
Words in context
Circle a letter to show the meaning of the boldface
words in the sentences.
1.
Many Web sites provide FAQs to provide help quickly.
a. Fast Accurate Quotes
b. Facts and Quality
c. Frequently Asked Questions
2.
If you can imagine a subject, you can find out about it on the Internet.
a. international network of electronically
connected computers
b. a search engine such as www.yahoo.com
c. Web pages with customized information
3.
Your question may be answered on the site’s message board.
a. an
organization’s list used for regular mailings
b. area
on a Web site where users post comments and read
the
comments of others
c. an
educational chat room for regular users
4.
Some sites respond only within a certain time frame.
a. date
and time of day framed on the screen
b.
information about the time an event occurred
c.
period of time during which something is planned to take place
B. Synonym
and Antonym
Write S
or A next to each word pair to show whether the words are synonyms
(words with a similar meaning) or antonyms (words with opposite
meanings).
1. _____ submit / receive 5. _____ frequently / rarely
2. _____ perhaps / maybe 6. _____ require / need
3. _____ respond / answer 7. _____ expert / amateur
4. _____ chosen / rejected 8. _____ previous / earlier
C.
Homonyms
Homonyms are words that sound alike but have different meanings and sometimes different spellings. Clue words are homonyms of words from the reading. Use words from the reading to complete the crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
3.
sights
4.
to
6.
no
7.
sea
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DOWN
1.
knot
2.
weak
3.
sum
4.
ewe
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