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Team MAK

Posted on December 19, 2012 | Leave a comment

Miguel

Ahmad

Kenien

https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/maklib1201fall/

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Documentation: For Dummies series

Posted on December 5, 2012 | Leave a comment

A good example of documentation, are the “For Dummies” books. This franchise offers books on just about any topic you can imagine. They take this topic and break it down step by step so that you can get the hang of it. I recently purchased a “Photo Retouching & Restoration For Dummies” because I would be doing a lot of work with Photoshop and other programs like it. Since I had no experience with these programs, the vocabulary used in class left me a bit confused so this book really helped with its explanations of what the key terms were and also the step by step of how to make a basic picture stand out. -Miguel Olivares

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Citing and credibility- Miguel Olivares

Posted on November 21, 2012 | 2 comments

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.

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Hw Journal 2_Miguel olivares

Posted on November 19, 2012 | 1 comment

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.

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Advance Research_HW 11

Posted on November 7, 2012 | 1 comment

Until Monday, I had never heard of Google scholar. I was having a bit of an issue with finding credible sources of information about my research topic. I found that there was a lot of opinion filled articles and editorials which come in handy but wasn’t exactly what I was looking for. I found that the tips that were showed in class did help eliminate some of that. By forcing the search engine to look for specific domains and using quotations to find something specific, I felt more comfortable with the search results. The one thing I did notice was that even though some of the results were of higher quality, they weren’t available for me to use. Why not make information available to everybody? It’s very frustrating.

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Hw 10- Issues and Strategies with Research proposal

Posted on October 28, 2012 | Leave a comment

The main issue I had when coming up with a topic, was keeping my research topic proposal as a single question. I ended up using about 3 other questions aside from my main question so I’m having a hard time narrowing the focus of my research. I do believe however, that this can benefit me as I will end up with more information that I can later on start trimming down. It gives me more of a selection of information to put in my paper. One of the things that I have found to be helpful is sharing my research questions with other people and seeing which question got a better response or debate going.

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Copyright/ plagiarism- Miguel Olivares

Posted on October 9, 2012 | 1 comment

 

The idea of copyrights is one I find very interesting. After watching the videos, I kept thinking back on two things from the previous class. The first was the idea that kaavya Viswanathan plagiarized her book. Part of me wants to believe that her explanation was legit. Maybe she did unknowingly write similar passages because she had read the novels back in high school. Then again, if she had read the novels more than once back and enjoyed them as much as she claimed, shouldn’t the similarities have become more obvious?.  After the lecture and the videos, I did some research and found that its estimated that 85% of all work published in the U.S between 1923-1963 is now in the public domain. That seems like a really high figure and it makes me wonder whether it’s because the publishers want to share their work or because they deem it not worth the trouble to copyright. 

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Hw 7_ plagiarism_ Miguel Olivares

Posted on October 3, 2012 | Leave a comment

My thoughts on plagiarism are probably the same as everyone else. There’s no excuse for stealing someone’s ideas or words. At the beginning of every semester, we listen to professors talk about the syllabus and put extra emphasis behind the plagiarism rules but nothing ever seems to come of it. Ever since junior high school, i’ve heard students talk about copying someone’s paper or copying and pasting from the Internet but  I’ve never known a fellow student who’s gotten caught plagiarising and who has faced penalties. Part of me thinks that professors are tentative about accusing a student because there’s a fine line between blatantly copying someones work and being influenced by someone’s work.

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My thoughts on Facebook- Miguel Olivares

Posted on October 1, 2012 | Leave a comment

After reading the article on Facebook, I came away feeling the same way I did before reading it. I understand that some  people feel like Facebook can sometimes be used as a tool to invade their privacy but everything on the web has its pros and cons. Just like you can pay your bills online because it is more convinient but at the same time can become a target for pepole who are trying to steal your personal information. Same thing with dating. Might be easier to date online but that also has its negatives. When signing up for Facebook, we need to understand that we are signing part of our privacy over

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The negatives and positives of wikipedia

Posted on September 19, 2012 | Leave a comment

After reading The Charms of Wikipedia, all i could think about was how this website went from an obscure place where people could be editors to a website where millions of people go to research and share information with the world. However, some things just seemed to annoy me while reading this piece. It goes back to something i read in the Badke book. He mentioned this “gatekeeper” idea where one of the questions asked was is the information worthy to be published? This came to mind when Baker talked about other people not deaming his articles on wikipedia to be of importance or relevance. This is why part of the “gatekeeper” idea doesnt sit well with me. To me, all information is important and thus, gives us the right to publish or share with others no matter how irrelevant some might find it.

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