Citation and Documenting information sources.2

This week also we learnt about CITATION & DOCUMENTING INFORMATION SOURCES. 

We have understood the deference of Quotations, paraphrases, and summaries. 

             Quotation ,you use exact words from Author quotation mark. paraphrases, you use the idea and use your own words while summaries is used to summarize something in a short way, to do this you use the main idea and important information from the resource you are summarizing it.
            
             Signal phrases: introduce someone else’s work – they signal that the words and ideas that are about to be offered belong to someone other than the author of the paper. 

             In-text citations are the parenthetical pieces of information that appear usually at the end of a quote, paraphrase, or summary (though they sometimes appear before). Really it was amazing and i enjoyed this week.
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Citation and Documenting information sources

This week was the best week since we started information literacy because, we learnt important lesson which is Citation. 

              The meaning of Bibliography / Reference: Bibliography/ Reference is a list of books & other materials which have some relationship to each other. It has materials which contain:

Author ,

Title,

Place of publication,

Publisher,

Year of publication. 

The important thing was how to write APA style . APA style helps you to find out the information where it come from, who wrote it and when it was produced.

It`s used for:

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

 In addition we learnt the rules for AUTHOR, when you are writing references example;Start with family name for authors which have family names, follow with coma and initials for other part of the names, and so on. moreover we understood the rules of the title when it will be underlined and what words should be capitalized.from now we can find the references of the following; books, chapter of the books ,magazine, dictionary, blog,newspaper article,conference paper, and so on.

Examples of references of books are:

Search Strategies Basic.2

This was very interesting week to me because I learnt new things such as Truncation and Wildcard. 

Truncation is using a wildcard at the end of a root word to search multiple variations of that root word. Example of truncation: teen* will return teen, teens, teenage, teenager, etc.). I understood everything about truncation. A wildcard is a special character, such as an asterisk (*), question mark (?), or pound sign (#)

, that replaces one or more letters in a word , and it represents single character, also is used in the middle of the word. Example:wom?n will return woman, women, and womyn.in addition to that, the lecturer explained about Phrase searching.
It defined as is when you use a string of words (instead of a single word) to search with.also receives few results.this week i was concentrating too much even a photo was taken while i was focusing .

Search Strategies Basic

      This week was very interesting because we learnt, When should we use keywords, subject headings,phrases, single words? Selecting keyword is used when you're first starting to formulate your research question.

     Also we have learned examples of subject headings;
     a. Library Subject Headings;Used as the "official vocabulary"
     b.Science Subject Headings;Used to describe the content of documents in the Library at AIU
     c. Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms;used by American Psychological Association indexers to describe the content of documents in the database.

   In addition to that we learnt Boolean Operators, its definition and how it works.
          examples are;
                               a. AND; is used in between words you limit the search.                                     b.OR;is used in between words it expands the search.
                               c. NOT; is used in between words and excludes a word       from search.

Structure of InformationInformation Formats

This week we learnt the difference, definition and examples of Primary , Secondary and Tertiary Sources Primary sources :is an event written by the person who witnessed or experienced it /original documents. And examples of primary is; Diaries, Letters Secondary sources: is something written about a primary source. Examples are; dictionaries and text books n Tertiary sources :A tertiary source is an index and/or textual condensation of primary and secondary sources. Some examples of tertiary sources are almanacs, guide books, survey articles, timelines, and user guides. Depending on the topic of research, a scholar may use a bibliography, dictionary, or encyclopedia as either a tertiary or a secondary source. also newspaper can be primary and also secondary . this week was very interesting and the lecturer tought us very well and i understood everything.

BIG 6

We started Information Literacy course with the topic clalled ¨Big 6¨. 

    

BIG 6 is a six stage process that  help to make a decision and or to solve problems using information. It is very helpful thing, coz. we do a lot of assignments and research projects. 

  Six stage process contains itself the following concepts:

Each of these steps will lead you to make a good decision.