Thursday, September 06, 2012

 

Cyber-Assignment Library Research

In three (3-4) paragraphs reflect on the research process and include three examples of why research is important. Post your response here.

How does asking questions help us clarify our topic and what we want to say about it?

How do we check our sources? What is the CRAAP Test?

Discuss what plagiarism is and how proper documentation helps us avoid this dilemma.

Comments:
Michelle Chen
Professor Sabir
English 1A 11-11:50
6 Sept 2012
Library Research

Library is a perfect work place. It's quiet and has almost all the electronics and materials you need to work on your assignment.There's books if needed, text books if you can't afford to buy it, newspapers to let you know what's happening around you, articles and magazines just to read for fun. Another great thing is the computer, once your lost on something you can always depend on Yahoo or Google or if you're looking for some text in the library and you don't know where it is, the computer will help you locate it.

When you don't know the answer to something, asking questions is the number one best thing to do. Well, in my opinion. Teachers usually say "there are no dumb questions" and I completely understand because everybody learns on their own pace and not everybody knows what others know. Asking questions will help you focus on the problem more and encourage you to do some research on the topic and when you finish you'll get the answer and possibly even more than you needed to know which is always good.

How we check our sources at College of Alameda is easy. If you are searching for a book or text book you can go to Library - Book Catalog and use keyword search! It will show books for all the Peralta campus unless you limit your search to just COA. If your just looking for a article, you go to Library - Article Database and type the topic you want. One awesome thing is that you can email the articles to yourself if it interests you and you can even print it out. A CRAAP test is a useful guide to evaluate website resources.

Plagiarism might not seem like a big deal but it really is. Never plagiarize on any of your assignments! It isn't hard to find out. Plagiarizing is when you do an essay and you take a part of it on the web or the book and not give it credit. How you can avoid that problem is not to forget, use MLA style to cite sources! It's easy, you put the name of the article, who it's by, the year it was published and where you got it from.
 
Caroline Lee
Professor Sabir
English201A
6 September 2012

Response to the Library Orientation

Library is one of the good places for student who want to study and do research. The library’s homepage divided into different parts which is very convenience when doing some research work. Also there is some print resource for students to print out their homework or research information.
Moreover, article database and web resources are very useful on doing project or paper. Those sources in the library provide the best ways for us to finish the work.

Why research is important. It is because you may only know a part of the book or the information you want to search. Those research resources such as “Yahoo!”, “Google” ,”Microsoft” and so on can help you to find out what you want to know and direct you to the related website. It can help you to make the research process time shorter after you use it.
When you do not know something and ask, it can makes you more clearly and make sure you understand the things you are doing. It is because when there is many question marks in your mind, you will not know how to start the work, and waste a lot of time to find out the ways to solve it. Also, when you ask others question you will know what you need in the conversation.

The CRAAP test is a research tool which can help to evaluate information and articles. It basically divided into six ‘wh-‘ .questions in this CRAAP websites. When you are doing research, decide which part of the book or information you want to search about. If you only know about the keyword or subject of the things you want to search, type it and the tools will help you to find out the most similar information that related to the topic you search.

 
Jamon Barfield
Professor Sabir
English201B
9 September 2012

The Library is a good place students can go to get some work done. It’s very quiet and there is always the librarian there to help when it’s needed. You can also do homework group there. One of the things that I really like about the library is the computers they have you fast and easy to do research. The library’s home page has an article data page which is basically an easy way to find articles and books.
It’s easy to think we know something but it’s better to be 100 percent about knowing it. Asking questions is never a bad thing. That’s why they have the internet to search anything we’re not certain of or just want more information on the subject. Also if you’re in the library there is always a librarian there willing to answer any question if they don’t know the answer they will lead you to the right reading material or help us browse the net.
Checking for our sources is very easy, if you’re searching for an article, text book or even magazine you can just go to the book catalog and type in what you’re looking for in the keyword search area. To make it even more easier they break it down to so you can do an article database search and you can print out the article when you find it and there’s always printers I the library. What do about this you can also access it from your home. The CRAAP Test stands for Currency Relevance/Coverage, Authority, Accuracy and Purpose. The CRAAP Test is a list of questions you can ask you make the search easy. It’s another reliable search engine.

Plagiarism is turning in someone else's work as your own. This is done by copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit. If you’re going to use someone’s specific word or words, you must place those words within quotation marks and you must credit the source. You can take the idea but use your own words and that would be ok. You have to cite it and also at the end of your paper you must make a citation page to show you gave credit to the writer. This is done MLA format.

 
Jamon Barfield
Professor Sabir
English201B
9 September 2012

The Library is a good place students can go to get some work done. It’s very quiet and there is always the librarian there to help when it’s needed. You can also do homework group there. One of the things that I really like about the library is the computers they have you fast and easy to do research. The library’s home page has an article data page which is basically an easy way to find articles and books. It’s easy to think we know something but it’s better to be 100percent about knowing it. Asking questions is never a bad thing. That’s why they have the internet to search anything we’re not certain of or just want more information on the subject. Also if you’re in the library there is always a librarian there willing to answer any question if they don’t know the answer they will lead you to the right reading material or help us browse the net.

Checking for our sources is very easy, if you’re searching for an article, text book or even magazine you can just go to the book catalog and type in what you’re looking for in the keyword search area. To make it even more easier they break it down to so you can do an article database search and you can print out the article when you find it and there’s always printers I the library. What do about this you can also access it from your home.

The CRAAP Test stands for Currency Relevance/Coverage, Authority, Accuracy and Purpose. The CRAAP Test is a list of questions you can ask you make the search easy. It’s another reliable search engine.

Plagiarism is turning in someone else's work as your own. This is done by copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit. If you’re going to use someone’s specific word or words, you must place those words within quotation marks and you must credit the source. You can take the idea but use your own words and that would be ok. You have to cite it and also at the end of your paper you must make a citation page to show you gave credit to the writer. This is done MLA format.

 
John Pham
Professor Sabir
English 201A
09/10/12

Library is a pretty nice place to find information from. They provide the books you need even if you can afford the books. They also usually provide computer to help further you in your research in case they don't own the book themselves.

The CRAAP test is a research tool which can help to determine if the information and articles is useful. It's divided into five category. currency: the timeliness of the information, relevance: the importance of the information for your need, authority: the source of the information, accuracy: the reliability, truthfulness, and correctness of the informational content, and purpose: the reason the information exist.

Plagiarism is taking the ideas or words of another and passing them off as one's own. In an academic community, intentional plagiarism is an especially serious violation of trust. To avoid this, just as we give credit for ideas, so too we give credit for words by enclosing them in quotation marks and indicating the source
 
Tova Solomon
Professor Sabir
English 201a
11 September 2012
Why is research important?
Research is long and tedious, and there’s no circumventing that, but it is necessary and all useless if the right information is not gotten. It starts with the research question. After that comes preliminary research to help choose a thesis and makes the question more specific. So if someone starts out with the question “what is the history of ice cream?” after preliminary research they will have enough basic information to choose what they want to do a paper on and it will be more specific, like “would modern day ice cream exist without slavery in the US?” It can be more specific because the person probably didn’t even know enough about ice cream to know that slavery played an important role in it’s history.
Then is the main research, and this is the most important part, but it wouldn’t work right without preliminary research, but it can be the worst part because it’s only for the paper. For me, I like preliminary research the best because I want to know as much as I can about the topic, but the main research is just for the paper. Part of it is learning about the topic, but mostly it’s to pick out facts to use in the paper and ignoring ones that disprove the thesis. With the ice cream example, someone would say in their paper that one rumored creator of modern day ice cream was an American slave, because it helps their thesis but they’d leave out that there are many rumored creators and it’s all shrouded in mystery because even though that might be more interesting, it doesn’t help the thesis.
The final paper will just be a list of facts that prove a point, and if research is done right than the actual writing of the paper will just be adding context and transitions in between the facts, so the paper is already practically finished when someone is done with their research. So you say Nero used slaves to get snow so he could have what is essentially shaved ice and ice cream was kept alive before refrigeration through people wealthy enough to have ice and slaves who could spend an entire day making ice cream and add in some filler and the paper is already finished.
How do we check our sources? What is the CRAAP Test?
We check the sources by how current they are and who is supplying the content. Also we consult other sources to back it up or disprove it. The CRAAP Test is to check sources. It stands for Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, and Purpose.
Plagiarism is stealing not only someone else's ideas, but their actually work and claiming it is your own. It is avoided through proper citation.
 
Shuluo Fu
Professor Sabir
English 201A
September. 08.2012

Library research

According to the Library instruction from professor David, I find that the library of Alameda College is very useful for student because it is a practical place for studying and researching what you want to know. The professor David introduces the library to us in four parts: Library Resources, Research Topic, C.R.A.A.P Test, and Plagiarism. It is absolutely clear and impressive, which enable me to realize that there are some differences between the research process and contents. Meanwhile, professor David shows us the homepage of library. It is very convenient for students to find which resources they need in the website. When it comes to the importance of research,I will give some examples. I just remembered some words what professor David tried to tell us, that is:"Library is helpful cause you are able to find whatever you want in it whenever you want if you are interested in it". Definitely, we must collect different references if we want write a essay. However, you knowledges about different references is limited. If you are not able to make a good use for those references, you are not able to write a excellent essay. At this point, library researching is of importance because it provides some channels to collect different resources you need. On the other hands, reading is necessary for our learning, but it is so expensive for buying a printed book..

From the lecture of professor David, I realize that we have several library resources to checks the resources we want, including print resources, article database, and web. Resource. All of these resources can be found in the library and the homepage online. We can check the "book catalog" on the web through searching the key words. We can also use the printer to print it out our resources. However, what is about the CRAAP Test? The CRAAP is a statement about informations we get from our resources, That is: The timeless of information, the importances of this informations, the sources of information, correctness of the information content, and the reason the information exist. The CRAAP Test is very helpful for the informations we get from our resources.

When we clarify a topic we want, we firstly ask these question at the end of reading: what is interesting to me about it, have I understood the informations about my reading? The best strategies the professor introduced to us are narrowing a topic for a reading and using our brainstorming or mapping. To clarify our topic, we must be clear what is my main idea and what detail should we use. Some informations is very important for a topic: brief summary, detail explanation and so on.
 
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