What is the hardest thing about finding information and doing reserach on a topic for you personally?
I have a hard time finding information that is really specific, like diseases or math geniuses, because it is hard to find the exact answer on an online textbook or just a hard cover book. Normally texts are very vague and broad, never exact to what my question is asking. I would love it if there is a website that can answer every question - only there isn't anything like that.
Did this Library Research course help?
Honestly, Library Research were mostly review for me. I knew a lot about plagiarism, how to cite online texts and hard cover books, and how to Google (or search) things. But I think that Library Research helped me know more in depth about plagiarism. I learned that it is still plagiarism even to re-phrase an author's work without citations because you are still using his/her work. I also never knew that a quote from a famous proverb does not need to be quoted because it is basic knowledge. I thought that even if it is basic knowledge, we must give credit to whoever created that quote. Another thing that was interesting was that song lyrics do not need to be cited. Although it is lyrics or words that a person has created, it does not need to be cited which was very new to me.
In what ways did this course help you? (Of if the course didn't help, why not? What would have been more helpful and/or useful to you?)
This class wasn't as helpful as all my other classes that I have. It was mostly review and slightly in depth with the topics we touched so it wasn't as fascinating and informing. It would have been more helpful if we touched a little on the basics of the topics, because I'm sure many of us already know about plagarism and such, but not deeply into them. If we were given more time or even talk more about certain topics, then class would have been much more interesting and also more educational.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
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"Since everything is on the Internet, I don't need books...right?
No, that is not the case. Just because we have an easier way to look things up doesn't mean we do not need books. Even professionals don't always rely on the internet as much as they use it, and continue to use books. Books are easier to gain information for some people - like me because I can hold a book and actually feel like I am reading. It helps me concentrate better and I can annotate and take notes while reading. Although finding things online would be much easier to gain, you cannot really understand the information fully in detail like a book would. Also sometimes, the Internet cannot be reliable. There are times when people upload things that have no sources to back them up and people learn false information. On going with that, there are some sites such as ".com" that may not have the right information because it could be from a gaming website, or even a social website. Books are written work that someone has done with a lot of thinking, education, and knowledge in hand. They know what they are talking about, as they went through a long process of editing and re-editing, proof-reading, and then finally publishing. Authors would have to gain a lot of knowledge about what they are writing about, because it would be on shelves and people would read it. Just because everything is on the Internet, doesn't mean that we shouldn't read books. Sometimes books are better than reading things online, because old versions and special versions of texts aren't always posted online, but instead on paper. For instance, ancient codes or something that only got published on papers because they never had a computer during that time. As much as people love to read and would prefer to read things on the Internet, it shouldn’t always be the case because at times book can be more efficient than online texts.
No, that is not the case. Just because we have an easier way to look things up doesn't mean we do not need books. Even professionals don't always rely on the internet as much as they use it, and continue to use books. Books are easier to gain information for some people - like me because I can hold a book and actually feel like I am reading. It helps me concentrate better and I can annotate and take notes while reading. Although finding things online would be much easier to gain, you cannot really understand the information fully in detail like a book would. Also sometimes, the Internet cannot be reliable. There are times when people upload things that have no sources to back them up and people learn false information. On going with that, there are some sites such as ".com" that may not have the right information because it could be from a gaming website, or even a social website. Books are written work that someone has done with a lot of thinking, education, and knowledge in hand. They know what they are talking about, as they went through a long process of editing and re-editing, proof-reading, and then finally publishing. Authors would have to gain a lot of knowledge about what they are writing about, because it would be on shelves and people would read it. Just because everything is on the Internet, doesn't mean that we shouldn't read books. Sometimes books are better than reading things online, because old versions and special versions of texts aren't always posted online, but instead on paper. For instance, ancient codes or something that only got published on papers because they never had a computer during that time. As much as people love to read and would prefer to read things on the Internet, it shouldn’t always be the case because at times book can be more efficient than online texts.
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