Week Nine

On week nine i learnt about evaluation of internet sources,in today's world growth of the internet give us opportunity to find data and information to all over the world. Companies, organizations  educational insinuations, community and individual people all serve as information through the internet. But sometimes internet doesn't provide the accurate information so when evaluate the internet resources to judge the quality or appropriateness of information for a particular query or user. Therefore user evaluate the internet sources. Here are some of the criteria for evaluating sources. It should be evaluated on the basis of the following broad levels of analysis:

Purpose

what are the author's or producer's goals and intention?

How they inform or explain their users?

Does the site promote of product?

Scope

Is the information most complete available? is it extensive?

What subject area, time period, formats or types of material all are covered?

Authority refers to the author or other source of the information.

Is the author's name available?

What is the author's training, education, experience in the field?

Can the author be conductance for clarification or to be informed of new information?

Audience

Who are the intended users of this resource?

Will the resource satisfy users need?

Information content - its all about the currency - how old is this information?, Accuracy refer to overall excellence of the information.Is the information logical, well-organized and supported by evidence?Is a subject specialist available who could advise as to the accuracy of information content? and uniqueness - is the resource original, or has it been derived from other sources?

In design and layout organization  navigability, style & functionality and color are included. And in access /work ability user friendless, site search engine, required computer environment, brows-ability  software reliability, language etc are included.

Week Eight

Week eight was all about the Summarizing, Paraphrasing and Quoting.

PARAPHRASING: paraphrasing is a passage borrowed from a source and rewritten in our own words. It should be true the original authors idea which is more focused on part of the source and condense it slightly.And if we follow the steps like read the martial several times, try to rewriting the material in your own words without looking at the original source then it will be benefits for us. such as it helps to avoid cases of plagiarism and it looks like an industrious enthusiastic student who choose to spend hours researching. when you do the paraphrase yo have to cite the sources which is authorized a reader to locate the passage to which you are referring as well as to pull their own conclusions.

QUOTING: Where we have to repeat a passage from a author or statement by someone. For short quotations we use quotation mark but if our quotation has more than forty words we don't use the quotation mark. Use quotes when the author's words are so accurately stated that they cannot be paraphrased.

SUMMARIZING: is to give brief statement of the main points. when we do the summarizing of about something we must use in our words and it must be attributed to the original source. Summarizing helps us to remember the big idea of the what you are reading in text and you will be able to pick out the important idea.

WEEK SEVEN

After one week holiday, we start our lesson about introduction to citation and citation & documenting information sources so in this week i get opportunity to know how to do citation with APA style and why we use it and rule of APA style.Citation is the way of telling the readers about the sources which you utilized in that particular work and its included the title of author name, name of publisher, the date of publishing etc. citation have different-different style such as APA, MLA,ASA,ACS etc but the most common style is APA style.  

American Physiological Association(APA) style its established on 1928 by social science professionals which is help us to express the key factors of quantitative results and described the individuals with accuracy and respect.And Its used for term papers,research papers, empirical studies, literature reviews, theoretical articles, methodology, case study. 

APA style has some rules like rules for author,rules for title, rules for documentation. which we have to follow when we do the citation. 

WEEK 6

In this week also we learnt about search strategies Truncation,Wildcards and Phrase Searching.  

Truncation is a broadens searches which is provide us with further flexibility in searching. Its allows the computer to search for multiple forms of word and we use truncation symbol at the end of the stalk for example: music*- musical, musician, musicians, musicality, music's.

Wildcard allows us to increase the broadness of a search by using the symbols question mark (?)  and asterisk(*) to replace particular letters or order of letters.Questions mark we can use to replace a single character for example educat?? will return results for both educator and educated, and asterisk we can use to represent different character for example wh* finds what, white, and why.

 Phrase searching allows us in a database to search for particular words in a particular order  and we use quotation marks to search separate phrase it is the easiest and quickest technique.