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Those of you writing papers on topics related to intellectual property, freedom of online communications, and the government’s role in monitoring the use of the internet would do well to keep up with this bill, “Preventing Real Online
5 Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual
6 Property Act of 2011,” or the Protect IP Act. See current news articles for analysis, opinion, and more (and let me know if that link is broken).

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~Prof. L.

No matter how much we try to create something of out own we still need some sort of inspiration. Regarding who we are it does not matter. the R. Hauptman passage gives us some form of clue when it comes to using someone else work as long as you give them credit for there work. It does not matter who you are but at the end of the day to create something you will need some form of idea that was previously engineered and look upon that to see what can you do to either strengthen it or make it better. You may try and not use someone else work but sometimes to better explain something, you need another individual to better capture the meaning of what you are trying to convey to the audience. By giving the credit deserved to whom ever that you are quoting is a good idea because it lets you use someone elses work without jeopardizing your masterpiece.

Before this course I knew what google scholar was and what it was used for. I however did not know how to use it effectively. Limiting keywords, shortening phrases and even searching for topics related to the direct subject matter were a couple tools of trade I am able to take away with this course. Even though my research project is turning out to be a little more difficult than I originally planned it is a good challenging experience for me to now have to use these library catalog databases and expland my research methods. This is definitely something I will be using to write any extensive research papers I may have in the future in my other classes and I feel as though this experience was helpful.

-Tarik

Based 0n what we’ve discussed in the past week, i’ve learnt just how ineffective google scholar is. I got nothing from the site, it didn’t help in the least. I also learnt about city tech’s vast research database made me proud to be a student at this school (for once). I also experienced first hand how unreliable it can be, because it didn’t work when i needed it to. I also learnt how effective worldcat can be, just a tad effective for books only. It has a neat feature that lets me see what books are available in the city tech libraryThis is something that is actually helping my research right now actually. I plan on taking out an online restraining order against google scholar, it has to stay 5 clicks away from any site i’m visiting at all times. I plan on going back to the research database more often(hope it’s working now).