Monthly Archives: April 2013

Notes from today, and blogging assignment for Thursday, May 2

Posted on April 30, 2013 by Anne Leonard

Today we delved into a discussion on process documentation. Slides from today are available here. Your last blog post of the semester is due on Thursday! Please write one post of at least 100 words in response to the following: … Continue reading →

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How to use track changes in Word

Posted on April 30, 2013 by Anne Leonard
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Notes from today, and assignments for Tuesday, April 30

Posted on April 25, 2013 by Anne Leonard

Today we discussed standards, methods, and styles for citing text and non-text media. Your examples of citation style that reflects our community of inquiry were interesting and thoughtful interpretations of the “three rules,” and are available in the docs on … Continue reading →

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Notes from today, and reading and blogging assignments for Thursday, April 25

Posted on April 23, 2013 by Anne Leonard

Today we discussed the rationale for documentation and citation, as well as the “link rot” phenomenon and various aspects of documentation from the Hauptman article. Slides from today are available here. On Thursday we will continue our discussion on documentation … Continue reading →

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Documentation Purpose

Posted on April 23, 2013 by Tojo

The article talks about the function (purpose) of Documentation. According to the article, Documentation has six mutual exclusive purpose: acknowledgment, attribution, tracing, validation, protection against accusation of misconduct, and tangential substantive commentary. This article also explained the importance of references … Continue reading →

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Documentation Purpose

Posted on April 23, 2013 by Harpreet Kaur

According to this reading, Documentation, through some form of allusion or citation, serves six purposes: acknowledgement, attribution, tracing, validation, protection, and commentary. The purpose of citation is not only give credit to the person who has inspired you and whose … Continue reading →

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Documentation and Citation

Posted on April 23, 2013 by Madi

Howard speaks about link rot studies. Not all link’s used to cite your sources last forever. Many times when you return to your references, you may not find the information you used in your work. Link’s do not last forever, … Continue reading →

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Research journal post

Posted on April 23, 2013 by Jovi

My research paper is currently underway. Progress is being made everyday. I have become far more acquainted with certain databases that are essential for my topic. They have provided me with my necessary news sources for the paper. The internet … Continue reading →

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Preserving sources on the web

Posted on April 23, 2013 by Jessica

Link rot is the common occurrence of links and or URL’S ceasing to work. In the past we were would store important scholarly information on analog devices that could be pulled for reference and stored for further use. With the … Continue reading →

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The Life of a Link

Posted on April 22, 2013 by Chito2500

Almost all information that we use in our daily lives have links that will take us to whatever  we need to research. It almost seems that these links virtually last forever. The truth is that they will eventually cease to … Continue reading →

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