Monthly Archives: November 2012

Source Credibility

I found those three articles very useful because they have allowed me to get some information that I was not aware before. The author of ”Rot and Footnote” discusses the issue of giving credit to work creators. In fact I think that for the common sense, it is not a big deal to borrow someone else belongings, but when you take something from somebody without telling him what you did; it is stealing and punishable by law. It is the same for research paper; when you use a source to support your idea, you must give credit to the author of that source. Next, as Hauptman mentions, no matter what kind of research you are doing, you must always give the references of your sources.

 

 

11-21-2012 Blog Post – Ahmad Woods

Reading an excerpt from Howard’s “Hot Type: A Modern Scholar’s Ailments: Link Rot and Footnote Flight”  describes the purpose of citation and there’s six of them;  acknowledgment, attribution, tracing, validation, protection against accusations of misconduct. I think probably the most important reason for citation is validation.  It’s nice to have that cushion to know someone has done some sort of research on on this because then you know that the topic may be actually worth researching. Needless to say it also makes you look good when you pull out all sorts of references; it validates your research since now you have evidence to support you claims.

HW: Response to “Hot Type: A Modern Scholar’s Ailments: Link Rot and Footnote Flight”

While reading the article, “Hot Type: A Modern Scholar’s Ailments: Link Rot and Footnote Flight” by Jennifer Howard, I noticed a lot of familiar things. One being links not working after a certain amount of time. This never really phased me because I never really reused a source after using it once (meaning I never revisited the source), but reading this article increased my concern. As Mr. Bugeja’s said, I too believe that if we don’t figure out a way to preserve links, all the work we have done is somewhat pointless. It can’t be proven fact or fiction if the credible sources are no longer available. I hope they figure out a successful method for preserving citations and sources.

-Destiny Modeste

 

Notes from today, and homework for Wednesday, November 21

Today we discussed writing an academic research paper and outline. On Wednesday, we’ll discuss the rationale for documentation and citation. Please read Hauptman pp. 7-13; if you missed class get the book on reserve in the library (call number PN171 .F56 H38 2008) and also Howard, Hot Type: A Modern Scholar’s Ailments: Link Rot and Footnote Flight. Your blogging assignment is one reading response blog post of at least 100 words.

Remember, the research paper outline is due by 10 a.m. Wednesday, either emailed to me as an attachment or handed in at the start of class! Please get in touch with any questions you have about the assignment.

If you are looking for links to help with in-text citations, working with Track Changes, or anything else we discussed in class, slides from today are available here.

~Prof. L.

journal entry #2 – joey

In classes I have taken before writing a research paper has been hard especially when it comes to finding good quality research.  Throughout this class many techniques of finding research have been given to us in order to find it.  Some of the things I have already used in order to find different research for different classes but finding research for my topic has been very difficult.  I thought it would be a breeze because of the studies we did to find research but as I learned more the research found wasn’t good enough and I really didn’t think it would be this time consuming.

journal response

In class we reviewed many ways to research that has helped me with numerous amounts of things such as, finding an article or piece of information that is reliable and where to look for them. Databases are helping me find scholarly articles that I need for my paper. JSTOR is one of them. When I was gathering articles/info for my annotated bibliography, JSTOR helped me find articles that dealt with the law aspect of my assignment. Google scholar helped, but not so much as I hoped because when I would type something in the search engine, it would pull up articles in different languages or something that was completely irrelevant. In order to recieve worthy information, I had to put much effort in refining my searches

Hw Journal 2_Miguel olivares

During the past few lectures, I have really discovered some new useful techniques on how to find adequate information on the web. I think the most helpful of them all was Google scholar. I hadn’t heard of it until we covered it in class and I kind of wish it hadn’t taken me so long to discover it. I also didn’t know that we could put in a request for a specific article at the school library if I can’t get access to it on my own. I’ve also become more selective when clicking on links or choosing an article to get information from. Things like the domain, author’s credentials and whether it’s something that has been updated or revised are some of the things that I now tend to look at more than I ever did before.

report of annotated biblliography

While I was searching the sources for my annotated bibliography, I realized that the theory and the practice are two things very far from each other. In fact, after the lecture on the techniques of research, I felt confident because right away I did not try to find the good sources for my project; I wondered that it would be easy for me to find my sources since I knew how to Google scholar, where to find sources on city tech website and so on. However, when I started my research, I found out that to find good source is a tough work, but I have to recognize that without the research technique discussed in class, I would not be able to do what I did.

Hw Journal 2

Through out these past lectures on how to make a better research process, has been helpful. There is more easier strategies that I have learned in order to evaluate sources in any format, and why is important. The keys for internet searching, l and how to use the settings of ibrary catalogs including other databases. Before taking this course I would use the city tech library catalogs but after the lecture we had in using this kind of source was helpful. I would not use the settings right to better find what I was looking for, which made it stressful to find the close enough information related to my topic. Doing a annotated bibliography was my first experience and I would probably take my time to do outside of this course because I feel the sources included in the research paper are important. Summarizing the sources reminds us more of the topic and helps us stay in topic for our research paper to make sense with proper academic information.

RES. jour.2

I thought that looking for information that i can use in my research document would be easy. It was difficult because i was looking in the wrong  data bases. when i went back to my notes i had some terms written down that helped me find some information. Now i need to begin to put the information in order and set my outline up. i think once i do my outline, writing the paper would be easy because I have the information all i need to do is put into order and begin to write the paper. I hope the outline comes along well because i think that is the most important part of a paper.