week 9

INFORMATION

ANALYSIS

—Criteria for evaluating Internet Sources: purpose, scope/coverage/comprehensiveness, uthorit, audience,information content, design and layout and access/Workability.

Criteria for evaluating Resources

Purpose

—What is the purpose of the resource?

—Resource should make their purpose obvious at first sight.

—Does the site promote a product?

—Does the resource fulfill the stated purpose?

Authority

Institution

Is this the official site of an organization or association?

Is the publisher a  recognized organization?

 Information Content

1. Accuracy: Is the information in the resource accurate? check this against other resources, or by checking some information about which you have special knowledge.

II. Uniqueness: Is the resource original, or has it been derived from other sources? or Is the information in this resource available in other forms (for example other sites, Gopher, WWW, print, CD-ROM)? What advantages does this particular resource have?

Quality of writing

—Does the text follow basic rules of grammar, spelling and literary composition?

Organization

The organizational scheme must be appropriate, for example chronological for an historical source, or geographical for a regional resource

Colour

—Are backgrounds or other visual elements distracting or cluttered?

                                                 Plagiarism

Words, ideas, images and sounds need to be documented and given credit if they are not your own

After all we have summarize a list of useful criteria for evaluating internet information sources. exploring all these criteria is a good beginning for becoming a critical consumer of information in all form 

week 8

CITATION & DOCUMENTATION INFORMATION SOURCE:

• Provide support for claims or add credibility to your writing.

• Refer to work that leads up to the work you are now doing.

Summarizing: we use own word to summarize a text and we have to be brief and take note for key words  and we have to avoid using the author words.

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 Paraphrasing: when we paraphrase we are trying to rewrite the author text by using our own word and we have to state only the important things such as ideas or facts.

Quoting:
we can define it as using  the author's words exactly or using quotation marks and only for short quotation, it must be identical to the original.

Example : Olweus (1999) says that "Many studies have shown that both children and adults behave more aggressively after having observed someone else, a ‘model’ acting aggressively" (p. 43). 

Signal Phrases and In-Text Citation:

—Signal phrases: introduce someone else’s work – they signal that the words and ideas that are about to be offered belong to someone other than the author of the paper.

Example: in text citation

. . . end of paraphrased sentence, in which you convey the author's ideas in your own words (Krepp, 1985, p. 103).

" . . . end of quoted sentence" (Krepp, 1985, p. 103).

week 7

Apply selected tools and strategies to locate information

Introduction to Citation

Do You Know What is Bibliography?

Do you think Citation/Bibliography is Important?

•  Bibliography/ reference is a list of books & other materials which have some relationship to each other.

ØAuthor

ØTitle

ØPlace of publication

ØPublisher

ØYear of publication

Bibliography

 —Bibliography/ reference is a list of books & other materials which have some relationship to each other.

  —The material listed contains the following components: Author, Title, Place of publication, Publisher and Year of publication

Plagiarism

• Plagiarism is using others’ idea and words without clearly acknowledging the source of the information.

APA Style: The Basics

— By definition it is American Psychological Association, the —Style was  established in 1928 by Social Science professionals it makes the text more readable by those who assess or publish them.

Used for APA Style:

It is use for: —Term papers, Research Reports, —Empirical Studies, —Literature Reviews, Theoretical Articles, Methodology and  Case Study