Monthly Archives: November 2012

Citation

Acknowledging and honoring the individauls that has molded and created whether it was an equation, a screenplay, a poem etc is not only the right thing to do but the obligation of whom uses any of thier ideas/work. If its used in its original state or revised its only natural that you mention and validate the person who created that baseline for you to continue on. I believe that in learning from the past you build new possiblities for the future, always keeping present that validating those who had the curosity to invent the passion to thrive and the dedication to accomplish their goals should always be honored.

Notes from today, and assignment for Wednesday, November 28

Today we discussed standards, methods and styles for citing text and non-text media. Slides from today are available here. We will continue our discussion of documentation on Wednesday with a discussion of the practical applications of documentation.

Your assignment for Wednesday is the draft of the research paper, either handed in at the beginning of class or emailed to me as an attachment by 10 a.m. on 11/28. I will post the guidelines for the final version of the research paper on the site later today and distribute paper copies in class on Wednesday.

Good luck with finishing up the draft, everyone! Please get in touch or refer to the guidelines if you have any questions about the assignment.

UPDATE: I posted guidelines for the final research paper and will distribute a print version in class on Wednesday.

~Prof. Leonard

paper blog post

As a non writer this is continually a difficult process, there is so much to read and digest, that must then be turned into something informative but not being “regurgitated”. I have made slow progress, this is a a very heavy writing term for me. Conveniently, searching for information and using libraries is nothing new for me, im quite sure its the only reason why i’m still surviving this class. Knocking out this paper and a passing grade in the class will allow me to de-stress , that is, until next semester starts. I like to think that a topic as dynamic as mines is helps because theres always something new going on. An example is a recent email facebook uses have been sent regarding policy.

Writing Headache

I completely agree with my classmates on the starting of research paper writing. Although, we all have our outlines and annotated bibliographies ready, we are very far from the end of the problem. Moreover, for each title and subtitle we must brainstorm, and organize ideas from the brainstorming. Another problem is the familiarity with your topic. Also, one of my classmates mentioned the fact that sometimes we the recent sources we find online are not generously available for the public, but I think that if you tell a librarian, he can give you access to the source for free. My advice is; for any problem encountered on the city tech library website, just ask a librarian for help.

hw11 journal 2

I normally use Google scholar or the database provided by the college, when doing a research paper.  I regularly use Yahoo as my main search engine due to the fact that I find it to be helpful and very easy to navigate and getting my ideas together.  In general I find that most search engines (i.e. Google, Bing, Explorer etc.) are not reliable.   At the times it is unknown who is providing the information. Let alone if the person is knowledgeable in the field.  As for scholarly sources, it is reviewed by experts in their field of study.  One of the problems I encounter while searching on Google scholar is that some the scholarly sources have to be purchase.

 

homework#10

I find coming up with research topic to be simple.  One of my difficulties I encountered was creating a good research topic question.  This is the first time in which I have to create a research topic question for a research paper. I normally have to write a thesis statement.  My strategy was to write a thesis statement the way I’m custom to writing it, I wrote the thesis statement and transformed into a research topic question.   Another strategy I used is searching my topic online.  I am able to expand my knowledge on the topic with the information obtained on the online search.

Blog/Citing

Citing information is important and necessary for many reasons and one of them is acknowledgment for who wrote the book/article. To me citing makes your source relevant, and supports what ever work you are doing. People who read your work always want to know where your information came from, It validates your work. because if you do not put where it came from, people will judge your work and may not believe its factual. People also may think you plagiarized your work or copy it because it was not cited. Cite work by posting the web address or you could always use easybib.com, to cite works.

 

 

Notes from today, and reading/blogging assignments for Monday, November 26

Today we discussed documentation and the rationales for acknowledgement, attribution, tracing, validation, and commentary.

For Monday, please read Badke, chapter 9 and review the OWL MLA and APA style guides. Pay special attention to the MLA guidelines for in-text citations. Your blogging assignment is one 100-word comment on a classmate’s blog post (or 2 comments totaling 100 words).

Remember, your research paper draft is due on Wednesday, November 28. Please get in touch with any questions you have about the assignment.

Slides from today are available here.

Enjoy the holiday weekend!

~Prof. Leonard

Citing and credibility- Miguel Olivares

The articles made some good points about citations. I believe that citations are more important to me now than ever before because it subconsciously validates what the author is saying in my mind. I think it establishes a sense of trust which allows you to take in the information without having second thoughts about what you are reading. The citing of sources also gives the reader more options to help answer any question that they have after reading the main article or paper. No need to scroll through Google results for ten minutes from you have work cited right there in front of you that you can refer to.

blogg post/citing

Citing information is important and necessary for several reasons and one of them being the most impotant, to me, is acknowledgment for the author. While reading a excerpt from Howard, Hot Type: A Modern Scholar’s Ailments: Link Rot and Footnote Flight, I realized that there are many reasons one should cite informatiom, that are all equivelantly important. Cititng reliable sources also validates conclusions that are made or presumed. We can not state facts that can not be supported by proper research. quality should also be considered when citing  source. Links to the sources trace the information and represent the gatheresd information