Week 9

Hey friends, this week has considered to be the last week. We really learnt alot of things from our respected lecturer Mam Asna, she was really extra ordinary lecturer. She taught us much about Information Literacy.We will surely miss her a lot. I personally like her way of teaching.I still remember the very first day when she arrived to teach us I thought she is also student but time flies. Beside all this, I want to share In the last week she taught us about Information analysis. We also studied EVALUATION OF INTERNET SOURCES. She told us Criteria for evaluating Internet sources:

• Purpose
• Scope/Coverage/Comprehensiveness
• Authority
• Audience
• Information content
• Design and layout
• Access/Workability

Why we actually Evaluate?

• Because when we use a research or academic library, the books, journals and other resources have already been evaluated by a librarian or by a mechanism set up by a librarian.
• There are no filters in between us and the Internet

 She also highlighted about Audience and Authority which was a bit difficult.
In Information Content she taught us about following :

• Accuracy
• Currency
• Uniqueness

 Further she taught us about:

• Quality of writing
• Design and layout
• Organization
• Navigability 
• Style and functionality
• Colour 
• Multimedia
• Acess
• Ease of Use
• Searchability
• Browse ability
• Software Reliability
• Connectivity
• Cost
• Copy right
• Language 
• User Support and Criteria

In Conclusion She highlighted that on useful criteria for evaluating internet information sources:

Librarians and others working with Internet information resources should create and use lists of criteria appropriate to their users and subject areas and make these explicit in the resource guides that they create.

Establishing and learning criteria to filter information you find on the Internet is a good beginning for becoming a critical consumer of information in all forms.

Week 8

Hey friends this week was also interesting and full of information literacy knowledge. Day by Day Information literacy subject is becoming interesting as well as difficult. Last week we had studied about APA REPORT. This week lecturer taught us about APA CITATION.

She taught us why Source Integration is Important, because :

• Quotations, paraphrases, and summaries

• provide support for claims or add credibility to your writing
  
• refer to work that leads up to the work you are now doing
• give examples of several points of view on a subject
• call attention to a position that you wish to agree or disagree with
• highlight a particularly striking phrase, sentence, or passage by quoting the original
• distance yourself from the original by quoting it in order to cue readers that the words are not your own
• expand the breadth or depth of your writing

The lecturer highlighted again and again on :

Choosing text to integerate

Summarizing

Paraphrasing

Summarizing :

When you summarize, you put the main idea(s) into your own words, including only the main point(s).

TECHNIQUES OF SUMMARIZING :

• Instead of using many direct quotations in an essay, it is better to paraphrase and summarize your sources whenever possible.
• Use your own words.
• Do not use quotation marks.
• State only the most important idea or fact.
• Use as few words as possible

Paraphrasing :

 is a restatement of the meaning of a text or passage using other words.

Quoting :

Quotation is the repetition of someone else's statement or thoughts. Quotation marks are punctuation marks used in text to indicate the words of another speaker or writer. Both of these words are sometimes abbreviated as "quote(s)".

• Quotations use a narrow segment of the source.
• They must match the source document word for word and must be attributed to the original author.
• Use quotes when the actual words are so integral to the discussion that they cannot be replaced.

"You must be the Change, you wish to see in this world. "

Week 7

Last week was really busy and alot of assignments made me tired last week. This week is also was busy but not much. This week I did my exams very well and expecting a good result soon. This week I did a community service again but this time totally different community service. I did blood donation this week. I donated my blood to a blood bank free of cost to serve humanity. I feel really good after donating my blood. I will also suggest all my friends to donate blood to needy persons to save their lives.

This week lecturer taught us about Citation. We have never listen this world before that is why it was a bit interesting for us. Citation or we can also call it as Bibliography.

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
• Year of publication

Lecturer also taught us about plagiarism.The next she taught was about Citation and Documenting.

The most important APA REPORT. She taught us 100 times to make us confident and good in writing APA REPORT.

APA STYLE :

American Psychological Association (APA) style is an academic format specified in The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, a style guide that offers academic authors guidance on various subjects for the submission of papers to the publications of APA.[1] The APA states that the guidelines were developed to assist reading comprehension in the social and behavioral sciences, for clarity of communication, and for "word choice that best reduces bias in language."[2] [3] The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association contains guidelines on many aspects of academic writing as it is seen appropriate by the APA. Among the topics covered are information on the structure of research papers of various kinds, spelling rules, an author-date reference style, construction of tables and graphs, plagiarism, formatting of papers, and much more.

APA STYLE is used for :

• Term papers
• Research Reports
• Empirical Studies
• Literature Reviews
• Theoretical Articles
• Methodology
• Case Study

RULES FOR APA STYLE ARE :

TITLE-----RULES ----- AUTHOR------DOCUMENTATION

RULES FOR AUTHORS :

a) Start with family name for authors which have family names, follow with coma and initials

    for other part of the names.

 Eg:   Micheal Jackson      = Jackson, Micheal/ Jackson, M.

                                            Peter Garry Means = Garry, P.

 For names without family names, cite as they are known.

                                       Eg:          Osman Hamzah= Osman Hamzah

                                                      Nik Ismail Nik Ishak

If two authors, use ampersand (&) before the last author.

       Use coma after family name.

                                Eg:          Sawyer, C., & Parkin, G. F.

More than six authors, use et al. for the seventh or more author              names.

                                                Eg:          Lofland, L. , Moore, M.H., Estrich. S, McGillis, D.,                                                                               Spelman, W., Parker, K. ,et al.

Like rules for authors she also taught us :

• RULES FOR TITLE
• RULES FOR DOCUMENTATION
• CONDITIONS IF BOOKS ARE WITH 1, 2 OR MORE THEN 2 AUTHORS

The most important part was that when she taught us the APA FORMATS of  following:

1.         Book

2.         Chapter from books (Edited book)

3.         Magazines

4.         Dictionary

5.         Blog 

6.         Online Journal 

7.         Article from Informational/educational website 

8.         Conference Proceedings 

9.         Corporate Bodies

10.      Thesis/ Dissertation 

Some of the formats and their examples are as follows :

1.         Book with Author and Title

Format:
Author,  A. (Year). Title of book (Editor name, Ed.). Place Publication: Publisher.

Examples:
Taparia, N. (2000). Columbia world (T. Heideman, Ed.).  

 Chicago: Columbia Press.

2.         Chapter from books (Edited book)

Format:

 Writer of the chapter. (Year). Title of the chapter. In Name of  the editor. (Ed./Eds.), Title of the book. (pages of the chapter). Place of publication : Publisher.

               

          Damodararao, T., & Sastry, C. A. (1996). Water extraction from sea water acquifer. In C. A. Sastry (Ed.), Water treatment plants (pp. 437-444). New Delhi : Narosa Publishing House.

          Chieffi, G., & Pierantoni, R. (1987). Regulation of ovarian  steroidogenesis. In D. O. Norris & R. E. Jones (Eds.), Hormones and reproduction in fishes,amphibians, and reptiles (pp. 117-144). New York : Plenum Press.

3.         Magazines

Format:

Author,  A.  (Month Day, Year). Name of the Article. Name of   Magazine, volume, page number(s).

Examples:

Pressman,  A. (September 29, 2008).  Bottom fishing in rough   waters. BusinessWeek,  27.

4.         Dictionary

Editor. (Ed.). (Year). Name of Dictionary (Edition, Volumes).        Place publication: Publisher.

Examples:

Weber, C. (Ed.). (2002). Webster's dictionary (4th ed., Vols. 1-4).

                Chicago: Webster Press.

5.         Blog 

Zompist. (2009, September 30). Star wars: Hope not so new anymore

                [Web blog message]. Retrieved January 8, 2012 from     http://zompist.wordpress.com.

This is all we learnt in week seven. Information literacy is getting difficult and difficult by weeks.

Lets see how will be the coming topics.