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Within my research for my paper topic “privacy” I have realized how helpful an annotated bibliography actually is. Being able to provide an annotated bibliography gives a great understand of your sourceses being provided and how vital they are towards your paper. One of the reasons behind citing sources and compiling a general bibliography is so that you can prove you have done some valid research to back up your argument. An annotated bibliography provides proof of that this valid research has been done. Readers can refer to a citation in your bibliography and then go back and look up the material themselves.

11/4/13

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The main difference between the search engine and a library database, as soon as i started typing “Invasion of Privacy” on google it suggested multiple search keywords, but on ebsco no suggestions were given. Ebsco focuses mostly on academic articles/journals, not that google doesnt have it in their search engines. EBSCO has these academic journals organized and more simpler to locate   . When i clicks on a new york times article, it provide me with the journalists name, year of publication and a link to the article but upon clicking the link it took me directly to the NYTIMES homepage. On google, it provides you a direct to the link to the article website. Google provides you with wikipedia and also links to videos, also at the bottom of the 1st page on google all the way at the bottom it provides me with more search keywords. Though most of them were no help and google also provide information on a movie title “Invasion of Privacy”.

Notes from today, and reading for Monday 11/18

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Today we discussed the rationale for documentation and citation. We broke into groups to discuss Hauptman; we’ll wrap up our discussion of Hauptman on Monday, so be sure to bring the article and any notes you made on your small group discussion & questions that you generated. Slides from today are here.

About blogging amnesty: you can get credit for the blog posts that were due on 11/4 (research journal) and 11/6 (comment) if you post them by 10 a.m. on Friday 11/15. For the research journal blog post, make sure that the title of your post indicates the original due date for the post.

On Monday 11/18 we will continue our discussion of documentation, this time focusing on standards, methods and styles for documenting text and non-text media. Please read Badke, chapter 9 and review the Purdue OWL sections on MLA and APA style.

As I mentioned in class and posted in my last post, the research paper draft is now due by 10 a.m.  on Thursday, November 21, emailed to me as an attachment.

~Prof. Leonard

 

^ Giving Credit, Final Reading Response Blog, City Tech, 2013.

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Recreating is in a human’s nature. Authors, artist, musicians, scientist for example have been inspired from other works that have come before them. This inspiration gives birth to new creation; almost in the same way a parent gives their child DNA to form the makeup of a new person. Hauptman believes it is necessary to give credit to the source of inspiration which causes new creations. The same way our last names are carried on to carry on our family’s origins. Now with keeping this idea of origins, leaving traces to lead back to the origin is not simple. Bugeja & Dimitrova, write about the difficulty in the reliability of footnotes. Footnote’s sources become altered, and leave a dead end. Giving credit is the responsibility of the creator, to truly understand the real creation is to know of its source.

The origin of footnotes.

I’d like to thank…11/13

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After reading the Haupman article, it intrigued me as to how writers may publish their gratitude towards friends and/or colleagues. I understood the concept of footnotes, however, I didn’t give it much thought when it came to acknowledgements. If a person decided not to leave a footnote stating where he/she had gotten the information it may lead to unwanted legal trouble.Of course, I do read the extremely short acknowledgements, the ones that usually comes up before a story starts. But in scientific articles I have never checked to see who actually partook in the article. It is also imperative to give credit when credit is due. When authors named their contributors I never figured they would list them out in a line of who they favored above the other; I just figured it was who had the most relevant/useful information. In the other article from Vanishing Act, we are able to learn as to why sometimes footnotes aren’t there anymore. Nonetheless, sites with the hyperlink ending in “.gov” or “.org” were the most stable and reliable which shouldn’t come as a shock to any of us since we are discouraged from using websites like Wikipedia.com, Google.com. It is necessary to document any and every piece of information before we are charged with any charges against us even if we didn’t intentionally do it.

Purpose of Citation

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Robert Hauptman writes about documentation and its purposes. He also writes about the history of  and how the concept dates back to even the ancient times all the way to the present. He discusses that documentation is meant for six different reasons, that being: acknowledgement, attribution, tracing, validation, protection and commentary. Haputman tells his audience that citations are a way of giving credit to the source that you have used. He argues that “scholars who are experts don’t need to spend time crediting because they are the source, whereas the inexpert needs to credit all their sources.” Its always right to give credit to work you used in your own to show the previous author that you acknowledged them and built upon their ideas.

Hauptman

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Documentation is a necessity as discussed in this class throughout the course. To acknowledge the source and from whom the work is being produced from is highly important. Hauptman discusses this is great detail. Footnotes are mentioned within this article the reasons of footnoting ,citations and the role they play in acknowledging the source on where the information is coming from. The issue of URL changes came up within this article which was very interesting. I have had questions regarding citations including URLs in the past in terms of changes and the URL being too long etc. Citations based on URLs can be a bit frustrating especially of the URL is too long. There are times where you would like to review the citations and check out the URL but the page wouldn’t come up. Resolving this issue can be a problem.

Learning About Research

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Before taking this course i had knowledge of where and how to find information for research purposes. While taking this course i realized how limited i was before taking the course, I learned more ways to find resources such as scholarly work which i always seemed to have trouble finding.  Learning the new tools taught in class has enhanced my ability to conduct better research which would allow me to produce better work. Not only are these tools used for the class they can be useful to me for the future. Badke’s research tips has helped me to be able to narrow down my searches and to be aware of what to do and what not to do.

Disappearing Act 11/13

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 The Hauptman article, discusses the reasons for documentation.  I think two of the more important reasons for documentation are for acknowledgement and attribution. It is important to acknowledge where you retrieved a certain idea and to attribute it to its creator. In the Bugeja & Dimitrova article, they discuss research in which they try to determine that factors that affect online footnote/citation permanence. Many of the factors have to do with updates and restructuring that lose footnotes in the process. In the example of footnotes that link out to other pages, if the URL is too long, someone creates a new folder to place similar content and produces a failed footnote. It would make more senses to leave a footnote unchanged but over time it can turn out unusable because the web page might be heavily changed or deleted altogether.

IF the LIBRARY and WIKIPEDIA had a BABY

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Google ! Our friend? Our Enemy ? Our Poison Our Medicine? Google for years have been the only place that I could find information it was the only platform for me to gain insight But now, New sites and places have been brought to my attention its sort of like being introduced to new foods and new places EBSCO and Jstor though it holds more dense and broad information it is more reliable and legitimate information   than you’ll find on Google if doing research . it is an great tool to use if your on the path for information that will be the meat and bones of a paper instead of a Wikipedia anybody written outlook on things