For introduction to fashion, design, or marketing courses that involve research.

This book is geared specifically to information fluency for the fashion industry – covering traditional and non-traditional research – and is meant to help the reader overcome any Internet research phobia. Written to make students more proficient and confident in using the Internet and the computer as a tool for conducting research, this book provides insider industry secrets to researching the Internet for fashion design and/or fashion marketing related information through easy to understand and follow step-by-step exercises. The companion CD contains over 1,600 URLs including links for business, marketing, forecasting, global trade shows, global sourcing markets by country, and a global list of online museums and other historical and art resources. This book will teach students to research beyond Google™, how to use Boolean Logic and Search Engine Math, to conduct an Advanced Search online, and give them a better understanding of how to mine the Deep Web.

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