A synthesis is a written discussion that draws on one or
more sources. It follows that your ability to write syntheses depends on your
ability to infer relationships among sources - essays, articles, fiction, and
also no written sources, such as lectures, interviews, observations. This
process is nothing new for you, since you infer relationships all the time -
say, between something you've read in the newspaper and something you've seen
for yourself,...
Monday, 1 July 2013
Information Analysis
This week we were taught about the evaluation of Sources,
why we must evaluate and the criteria for the evaluation. Since the Internet is
ever-growing and countless numbers of information are being put up by many
people. Therefore Information may not be
reliable. The evaluation of the sources is becoming more important due to this.
There are 7 criteria that needs to be considered for
evaluating the Internet sources. They are:
1. Purpose- ...
Paraphrasing, Summarizing and Quoting
We learnt about the integration of
sources. There are basically three ways in which we use our sources to provide
evidence for our arguments. They are Quotations, Paraphrases and Summaries. We
learnt that it is important to integrate sources for various reasons such as
expanding the depth of the writing, giving examples on several points of view
on a subject, etc.
Choosing text to integrate:
noting key ideas and main points, summarizing...
Citation Documenting Information Sources
Bibliography/Reference
Bibliography is a list of books and other materials which
have some relationship to each other,
The listed materials contain the following components:
-Author
-Title
-Place of publication
-Publisher
-Year of publication
For e.g.,
Drucker, P.F.(2000).Innovation and entrepreneurship:Practice
and Principle.London:Heinemann
Plagiarism:
Plagiarism is using others' ideas and words without
acknowledging the...
Search Strategies Basics ( Transactions and Wildcard & Phrase Searching)
Transactions and Wildcard
This week was spent on learning the usage of truncation and
wildcard. These two help to broaden our search capabilities by allowing us to
retrieve multiple spellings of a root word, such as singular and plural forms.
Truncation: Using a wildcard at the end of a word to search
for multiple results. It expands the
search to locate all words beginning with the same root. Example: Teen* will
give teen, teens,...
Search Strategies Basics
When to use keywords, subject headings, phrases, single words?
This week's lesson was on the topic of how to search for information using
basic strategies, like which terms to be used in order to get the broader
result. Usually keywords are widely used when searching or brainstorming on
some concerned topic. There is also the Subject headings which uses a
standardized vocabulary, usually giving you more specific resources on your
topic. Some...
Sunday, 30 June 2013
Search Tools
This week in class we were taught about the tools we can use to seek out
information.
The main search tools are the INTERNET, Databases and Library catalogs.
A Library Catalog is a file cabinet containing individual
cards with bibliographic information about specific items in the Library. There
is OPAC, an online catalog through which we can search for the items required.
It provides details about the book, audio-visuals and...
