Thursday, 11 July 2013

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:



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