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...
Structure of Information
Structure of Information (Information Format)
This week's lesson included the three sources of Information
- Primary Source
- Secondary Source
- Tertiary Source
Primary Sources :
A primary source is an original object or document, first-hand information.
These sources produce materials in the time where one may be investigating. It
enables researchers...
Information Literacy
Why should we learn Information Literacy?
- IL skills are the Foundation of modern democratic society
- Using information and technology in an effective way
Problems faced due to lack of information skills
- Using Limited or inappropriate sources of information
- Being disorganized
- Finding incomplete information
- Communicating the information ineffectively
-...
Friday, 12 April 2013
Web Applications
Web Application or Web Apps that an application is a piece of software. It can run on the internet, in our computer, in our phone or other electronic devices. It also refers to any applications or services in internet. For example, Google Documents, Windows Live Hotmail, Turbo Tax online etc. In another reference, Web browers are software applications that alloaws users...
Sunday, 10 March 2013
Trends in the internet and WWW
The internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide. It's a network of networks that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business and government networks of local to global scope that are linked by a board array of electronic, wireless and optical networking...
Database Management
A database management system is a set of software programs that allows users to create, edit and update data in database files, store and retrieve data from those database files. Data in a database can be added, deleted, changed, sorted or searched all using a DBMS. For example: If you were an employee in a large organization, the information about you would likely be...
Information System
Nowadays, society become dependent on information systems. Information systems has help people in their daily life routine. Information system itself bring the meaning of business application in the computer that manage their operations, compete in the market place, accounts and manage human resources.
An information system can be defined technically as a set of interrelated...
Friday, 8 March 2013
Information Technology (IT) & Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
Information Technology and is pronounced (IT). It refers to anything related to computing technology, such as networking, hardware, software, the Internet or the people that work with this technologies. IT departments for managing the computers, networks and other technical areas of their businesses. Actually, IT include computer programming, network administration,...
Data, Information & Information Management
Data is raw material for data processing, data relates to fact, event and transactions. Data refers to unprocessed information.
Information is data that has been processed in such a way as to be meaningful to the person who receives it. It's anything that is communicated.
For example, researchers who conduct market research survey might ask a number of the public to...
