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RUDOLF PENDIE

This work was created to disseminate breast cancer awareness among the population in my community. It is a great piece to understand the factors that could contribute to breast cancer. Follow the link (my name) to see the powerpoint presentation.

Advance searching comes in when we are getting lost in a poll of information. We know that regular search methods are not the best way to dig up relevant information. Badke has being able to advance my knowledge to search. He ask that one must be able to identify a broader topic which his/her topic maybe part of. Further that, he encouraged using the Boolean search mechanism. Most free popular search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Bing use keyword in search for information but college libraries will have a more sophisticated engine that may look for keywords and topic headings at the same time. We will definitely face some crisis in the future as most people turn to popularity rather than relevance. Searching using Google Schoolar is the best free engine I have used publicly t find resource-able information on the internet which can contribute to my paper.

I am glad to have read this chapter before deciding on my research topic. It has taught me on how to approach and formulate question. Since I started thinking about a question nothing have helped in any direction I looked. I loved Badke statement “a thesis and research questions is a flip side of a coin.” This made me comprehend more on how to model my question so it will not lead me to a dead end while doing the research. Also as a junior student writing many papers I a thought my outline will come from my paper. I now under why it took me so long to write a piece of paper. Badke also warn us to stay away from wikipedia since anyone could edit the information thou it carries a bulk of info. He also commend us to understand the question then gather and synthesis data pertaining to the question.

All three readings were meant to teach us how to narrow down our search results when using different types of search engine. As a result of these readings, I have learned other methods of searching a database even if I don’t know what the database is dedicated for. For instant i learnt that if I am searching a medical database, my differentiation should be other words other than medical terminologies. For example if I am searching diebetes among African-Americans, diebetes will be my keyword but my subsearch will be African-Americans to narrow down my results. I have also learnt how to use stem words to search for words of similar meanings which Badke term it searching using “wildcards.” We’ve also seen that major search engine providers will return different results based on location, time, events etc. Making many factors infleunce results may be good but poor in a sense that one can hardly get a replica of search he/she did earlier.

If i knew Isserman I will like to ask him, When do we have to qoute the original source? I understand that copyright is a little soft on academic usage but does it give us the right to copy? Isserman claims that if a statement is repeated over time it become very common that we do not need to name the source. If we keep leaving the source unknown all the time will finally lost the original speaker. Example is “I have a Dream,” if these words keep flowing around with Martin Luther King’s name we will one day foget about the importance of such speech. Furthermore, the digital age has made it more easier for copy and paste that plagiarism is most common among students than ever. Digital remix has all the worse being the way to destruction of original work of arts. As long as we have this tools distributed to everyone we could only do damage control on copyright because students today have the right to copy.