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Research Jornal: Advance Internet Searching -Destiny Modeste

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The topic I choose to research was how do teen users of social networking (Facebook) sites understand and comply with the privacy policies of these sites, and how well they understand will affect their professional and academic future. In order to begin research in this topic, I started using google scholar once again. In the search box, I typed in “teen Facebook privacy.”  Multiple things appeared; including a scholarly source entitled, “Imagined Communities: Awareness, Information Sharing, and Privacy on the Facebook.”‘ opposed to using just the normal Google search engine, I found hat scholars gave me a more narrow search in which I prefer. Google Scholars was extremely easy to use and I belief it gives out credible sources. 

-Destiny Modeste

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Homework _11 advance search strategies

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I only used google scholar once, I was starting to look for related articles about my proposed topic. I did have trouble because I found articles that were not really giving me the information related to my topic. In Mondays class I was able to understand how to use google scholar and its settings, and now I have practice by searching again related articles. I did find a couple and very interesting articles which I have posted it in easybib. This would help me get back to the articles I have found making it easier instead of just going back to the website to find the articles again. The articles are somewhat different because the last articles I found are up to date then the other articles I have found before. Which makes it interesting because my topic relates to social networking and it is what is being used the most and changing frequently.

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hw#11 journal response

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In class we discussed many strategies that we can use to help advance our searches. This has been very successful with helping me locate useful information for my research paper. My favorite is google scholar. I like google scholar because it is much more trust worthy than regular google searches and,
I feel more comfortable and secure using it. Eliminating stop words has also taught me how to advance my searches. Before knowing about google scholar, I was nervous about writing my paper. Now that we went over a few different strategies, I now have more confidence. Easybib has been a great help as well because it teaches us how to be organized, it locates reliable information and my favorite part about easybib is how it sites the articles.

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Reading and blogging homework for Wednesday 11/7

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By tomorrow we should get an update of how we’ll make up the classes missed due to the college closure during Hurricane Sandy. I’ll let you know as soon as I find out. In the meantime, I posted an updated schedule of readings and assignments. Today we discussed advanced internet searching, including Google Scholar and the importance of setting up Library Links in your Google Scholar settings, various browser add-ons such as LibX for searching and Zotero for citation management, and briefly touched on EasyBib, which we investigated a few weeks ago. EasyBib also has browser extensions for Chrome (and Firefox?) that allow you to quickly cite or evaluate a website or online article or e-book. Please note that the library’s EasyBib demo now ends on November 30. On Wednesday, we’ll discuss searching & finding in library catalogs. Please read Badke, ch. 5 pp. 89-93 and review the Library of Congress Classification Outline.

Please write one research journal blog post in response to the prompt below:

In class today you tried out advanced search strategies and scholarly internet resources from the Badke reading to search for sources on your research topic. Describe 1 advanced strategy or scholarly resource you used. Did you find different information sources than you found doing a regular internet search (just using Google, Yahoo, etc.), and if so, how are they different? Did you encounter any difficulties that you haven’t encountered in a regular internet search?
Slides for today are available here.
Go vote tomorrow! Check the updated list of NYC polling sites that have been changed due to Sandy damage if you think there’s a chance that your usual polling site has been moved.

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My opinion

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I read the chapter six and seven of Badke’s book “Research Strategies” fourth edition; I was already aware of most of research tips in those chapters. However, there are several websites that I had no ideas about their existence such as CiteSeer and Scirius that are quite useful for me as student in chemical technology. Next, I’m a little bit lost about your suggestion for my research topic proposal because you want me to narrow down my research topic in order to be more focus on only one aspect of my topic, but I think that if I have to answer only one question, I won’t have a lot to say. Thus I want you to let me investigate on the effect on producers and consumers and also I want to compare the law of the United State and others countries. Still, if you insist about your suggestion, i will try.

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Updated schedule of readings, blogging, and assignments

Posted on November 1, 2012 by | 2 comments

hi everyone,

I posted an updated class schedule on the course OpenLab site. You can find it under Syllabus. Some of the blogging assignments may be adjusted a bit to accommodate due dates of other written assignments. The annotated bibliography is NOT due Monday, November 5. It is now due on Wednesday, November 14.

See you Monday! Stay safe.

~Prof. Leonard

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hw # 10 journal blogg

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The issues that I have come across while doing this research project is finding reliable sources. I am also dealing with an issue that i’ve always dealt with which is, writers block. I try to think of ways on how I could attempt to write this paper such as, what my opeining sentence might be. I have been using google extensively to try and develop ways on where to locate my sources. During class, we have gone over ways that can help us locate a better source especially on how to use a search engine. Now I am more aware on how to formulate a sentence on google that can strengthen my search.

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