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

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.