Reviewing types of Sources

With a book as a source, a person will find background information on a specific topic and more in depth information. A book, depending on if it is creditable, is a great source to use in a research paper because I think you can’t go wrong with a book. If a person has a research paper on past events, a book would help more because of the background information and goes in to details on that subject. A person can use a book in their research very easily because of the information the book contains. There is so much information that a person can quote key incidents in the research topic. With a blog post, you can find a person’s opinion on the research topic. Depending on whom the person is and what your topic is about, a blog post can be a good source. If your research topic is about something medical and the blog post is by a well-known creditable medical doctor, you can use that doctor’s blog post in your research paper. You can find an expert on a subject by scholarly journal articles. You will have good information as far as research on the specific topic. It can also be a great source if you are looking at recent topics because you have an expert’s ideas on that topic. You can use them as important parts to your research paper as well. With Wikipedia, you can also find background information on a specific topic and details on it. I think the only reason that makes it a bad source is because anyone can write and edit an article. Other than that, Wikipedia can be used in your research paper by just using some general information about the topic. 

In class assignment 10/29

How I found the Medical article:

• went to library homepage
• clicked on Galileo and Databases
• clicked on search 
• copied and pasted the title of the article in the search bar
• it was the first link 
• clicked on the email tab and emailed it

Homework 10/29

An annotated bibliography is a list of books or articles with notes, which includes a summary of the sources. An annotated bibliography consists of three major parts, which are a citation, a summary and an annotation. With the citation, it just consists of about one or two lines, depending on which citation the professor wants. The summary is no more than a few sentences, while the annotation is the rest of the annotated bibliography. This is when I include most of my information about the topic. I would say how and why the annotated bibliography is important and how it relates and ties into my research topic. I believe the reason why you want us to write an annotated bibliography is because as the guy in the video said, it makes us do our research early and we learn how to do research selectively and carefully. And of course, we learn about how to correctly research topics. It helps us learn about our topic further and the research that has already been done. Another thing it helps with is preparing us for a research project. If we do this, we have an idea of where we want to go and more details on our research project.

Blog 10/24

The topics we have covered in this class have been additional information on things that I have learned in another class. In college, the professors, especially the English professors, have pushed plagiarism into the students mind in order for them not to plagiarize. It is important because there are serious consequences for plagiarism in college and I believe the professors try to avoid those in order to help the students. With library research, these topics are all related as far as looking up information the correct way. With the knowledge learned in this class, applying it to other classes will be simple. The information learned is basic knowledge for all types of research that should be applied. The information is not hard but it is a lot of information to know and keep in mind when doing research. If a person does not follow the guidelines of the basic information, it depends on the severity of it and what can be done to handle the situation. Because we are in college now, we are considered adults and our consequences for bad actions are more severe than what it would be if we were still in high school. These are basic skills people should know and apply to all types of research. I have a clear understanding and I have no questions.  

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October 17th Homework

The Trouble for Elsevier snippet is about the cost of scholarly articles and how it started a major boycott. It is talking about how scholarly articles are being restricted and that universities pay too much to get the articles but it takes too long to get it to the readers. They want librarians to boycott for-profit scholarly articles. The New England Journal of Medicine snippet is about the Journal of Medicine’s 200^th anniversary. The lady talks to the editor and chief about its highs and lows of the Journal including the mistakes they have made over the years. He said that the first treatment of leukemia is one of the published achievements. The Changing Nature of Knowledge snippet is about how the nature of knowledge is shifting on the internet. The guy talking states that knowledge over the internet is turning in to big contradictory connections that travel on forever, that the facts are not the facts anymore, and that the facts do not solve disputes anymore, but the nature of knowledge is more open and has a bigger horizon than it did. How these articles relate to each other is that knowledge is attained to write this journal and scholarly articles. How knowledge is shifting today because of the internet is how some of the scholarly articles are trying to make a profit off of them and that the horizon of knowledge has grown over the years is how the New England Journal’s successes increases by the more informed and better quality of information they write about. I was quite bored listening to these snippets but I can say it was quite informal. These stories definitely have to do with me as an undergrad student because I am in the society where the nature of knowledge is growing and how some of my research is or might be limited because of the major companies trying to make a profit. And for my field of study the Journal of Medicine is a great way of me keeping up with information around the world in the medical field.

Plagiarism vs Copyright

Plagiarism to me is when someone takes another person’s work(s) and uses it for their own benefit without giving the original owner credit. Even if a person rewords someone else’s work and does not give credit to the original author, it is still a form of plagiarism. Some people reword the works and cite the owner but only changes a few words are still considered plagiarism. If a person truly rewords someone else’s work and puts the information in their own words and give the owner credit is not plagiarism. The difference between plagiarism and copyright violation is basically the law is involved. Plagiarism is just a form of being dishonest. A copyright violation is a violation of law and can be an end result of being sued and fined. It is very hard to tell the difference and I thought in order for something to be copyrighted a person has to trademark whatever it is, which is not the case anymore. An example of plagiarism that is not a copyright violation is when a person is writing a paper and uses someone else’s work as their own without giving credit. An example of a copyright violation that is not plagiarism is the case of the Ohio Marching band where the song they did was well known and assumed everyone knew it and made it their own is copyrighted. Because they didn’t buy the rights to do the song is a violation and they could be sued.

Jumping into a Conversation

If I wanted to join a conversation to show that I know the topic at which the people are talking about, I would gently say “Excuse me, but I overheard you talking about (the subject the people are talking about). I (and whatever it is that I know about the topic).” When I actually do jump into a conversation, I turn to the person or people and smile and just ease my way into the conversation. If I know what I’m talking about, then the information will just flow out easily and the people would understand what I am talking about and they really wouldn’t mind that I eased my way into the conversation. You really can’t just “jump” into a conversation that you were not in originally. If a person just “jumped” into a conversation I was having with another person or people, I would be kind of annoyed because they were not in the conversation in the first place. That is why I say you have to ease into a conversation not jump in. I know some people may know what they are talking about, but the information does not flow easily, but if the information seems correct and makes sense then, I wouldn’t mind because that’s more information than I knew and they didn’t just “jump” in the conversation; they eased in the conversation.

Filter Bubbles With Different Databases

I think that filter bubbles can be in the different databases. I do think that no one really takes the time to delete website searches, cookies, passwords, and other things that were said on the webpage about how to get rid of the filter bubbles. When students or just people in general use the databases in the library, they do not think to delete what they search for. I am not sure if the librarians or other people that work in the library take the time out to delete the history and the other stuff, but they all build up and I think Google or any of the other search engines do the filters and I think the search engines limit future searches even more. I personally have not noticed any searches, but I think if I, or someone else, were to bring their personal laptop to the library and search the same topic on their laptop and the computer in the library, I do believe that there would be different searches. I still think that it is crazy how the simple research Pariser did with his friends is a great example of the filter bubbles and I think if someone did the same simple research with different library databases and home computers or laptops will yield the same results as Pariser, different results for the same topic. 

Filter Bubbles

Filter bubbles can be good and bad at the same time. The good thing about filter bubbles is that it is basically catered to what us as an individual research about or look up. The bad thing about filter bubbles is that we don’t even choose our filter bubbles. Eli Pariser said that search engines like Google and Yahoo and even Netflix and Facebook do the filters for us as individuals. I think it is horrible that we don’t even get a say on what we would want to filter our search on. Some people probably would not want to have filter bubbles, but because people do not know about it, they cannot say anything about it. I think just the simple research that Pariser did as far as have some friends look for a specific topic, which was Egypt. The fact that two of his friends had different results is not cool at all. I think it is crazy that this is actually happening and we do not have a say in what gets filters for us. When trying to do research for any type of topic, even if a person is just looking for some simple quick information, they will not get all the information. The filter bubbles stop people from getting all the possible information they could obtain for that specific topic. With academic research especially, we as students or individuals, are researching to get all types of information for that topic, but if there are filter bubbles, we can’t get all the information which could make a difference for a grade of a B to an A, or just well-rounded knowledge on that specific topic. I think the page that Ms. Pashia had on this assignment is a good way to get rid of the filter bubbles and it turns out that I have already been eliminating filter bubbles because I randomly clear out my history and delete cookies and do some of the other things that are on the site. I would definitely suggest that people should do this in order to eliminate these filter bubbles.