1.What was discussed today in class?
Answer: Today in class we discussed about the 3 different kinds of periodical.
2. Describe the differences among a "popular," a "trade/professional," and a "scholarly" journal.
Answer: Popular journals are useful for news, current events, general interest and many more. Their audience are usually general public and its appearance is colorful with lots of ads on a glossy paper. While trade/professional journals are useful for trends in an industry trade, contains company information, statistics, charts and many more. Their audience are members of specific industry, profession, or association and its appearance is usually colorful with lots of ads targeted to the trade or profession on a glossy paper. And as for scholarly journals, they are useful for in-depth analysis. Their audience are researchers, scholars, and students with some background in that field. The appearance of a scholarly journal is mostly black and white with tables, graphs, and chart, usually plain and serious looking with few ads.
3. What are the advantages and disadvantages of print and electronic forms of periodicals?
Answer: I think that the advantage of print form of periodicals is that some users are more comfortable in using print and like sometimes there may be technical problems with accessing the electronic version so the print is needed as a back-up. And I think that the disadvantage of a print form is that not many users can access the same article at the same time whereas in an electronic form it is possible. Morever, with electronic form periodical is accessible from any computer on campus or any computer off-campus or at any time of the day or night, so there is no need to make a trip to the library. But the only thing is that if the server is down or any technical problems occurs there's not much we can do with the electronic form of periodical.
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Research Log Entry 8
1. Write a brief topic sentence and statement of exploration for your topic.
Answer: Ancient Greek theatre (my topic). Ancient Greek theatre is comprised of 2 emotions; tragic and comic. Tragedy and comedy have survived for over two thousand years, because small numbers of people thought they were worth preserving.
2. Formulate appropriated search terms that you might use to begin your research process.
Answer: ancient greek theatre, greek theatre, theatre created, ancient theatre, greek and theatre, ancient greek and theatre.
3. Examine the various library databases available to you through this library and list the possible database you might use to begin your search process.
Answer: Academic Search Premier and Britannica Online.
Answer: Ancient Greek theatre (my topic). Ancient Greek theatre is comprised of 2 emotions; tragic and comic. Tragedy and comedy have survived for over two thousand years, because small numbers of people thought they were worth preserving.
2. Formulate appropriated search terms that you might use to begin your research process.
Answer: ancient greek theatre, greek theatre, theatre created, ancient theatre, greek and theatre, ancient greek and theatre.
3. Examine the various library databases available to you through this library and list the possible database you might use to begin your search process.
Answer: Academic Search Premier and Britannica Online.
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Research Log Entry 7
1. What was discussed today in class?
Answer: Today in class we discussed about all different kinds of database. For example, Britanica and Lexis Nexis.
2. What points were particularly important to you and why?
Answer: The point that was particularly important to me was that different database have different results, it is upto me to look for the clues hidden in the result and to key in the right terms in each database to get satisfying results.
3. When engaging in the search process, what techniques might you use to ensure that you can continue your exploration without running into a dead end?
Answer: When engaging in the search process one must act like a detective, always curious and looking for clues so that one can continue exploring without running into a dead end.
Answer: Today in class we discussed about all different kinds of database. For example, Britanica and Lexis Nexis.
2. What points were particularly important to you and why?
Answer: The point that was particularly important to me was that different database have different results, it is upto me to look for the clues hidden in the result and to key in the right terms in each database to get satisfying results.
3. When engaging in the search process, what techniques might you use to ensure that you can continue your exploration without running into a dead end?
Answer: When engaging in the search process one must act like a detective, always curious and looking for clues so that one can continue exploring without running into a dead end.
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Research Log Entry 6
1.What was your final question?
Answer: What is Greek mythology all about?
2. What terms did you use to conduct your search? Did they work or not? Why?
Answer: Greek mythology. Yes it worked!
3. Did you need to try alternate terms? If so, what terms did you choose? Did your new terms work any better?
Answer: Yes, mythology and greek, the new terms gave me more results.
4. How would you evaluate your final results? Did you have too many, too few, or just about right? What number do you think is appropriate and why?
Answer: I think my final results is just about right. Not to many and not too few. I think around 5oo to 1000 results is fine because for me personally it doesn't hurt the eye to scan through 500 results and select the links that I think might be useful in my research.
5.How well did your results answer your question? Comment on whether all or some or none of them answered your question.
Answer: I think the results were good, it kind of answered my question.
6. How do you use Boolean operators to refine or manipulate resutls?
Answer: By using the words AND, OR, and NOT to combine keywords when searching electronic databases to get more precise search results.
Answer: What is Greek mythology all about?
2. What terms did you use to conduct your search? Did they work or not? Why?
Answer: Greek mythology. Yes it worked!
3. Did you need to try alternate terms? If so, what terms did you choose? Did your new terms work any better?
Answer: Yes, mythology and greek, the new terms gave me more results.
4. How would you evaluate your final results? Did you have too many, too few, or just about right? What number do you think is appropriate and why?
Answer: I think my final results is just about right. Not to many and not too few. I think around 5oo to 1000 results is fine because for me personally it doesn't hurt the eye to scan through 500 results and select the links that I think might be useful in my research.
5.How well did your results answer your question? Comment on whether all or some or none of them answered your question.
Answer: I think the results were good, it kind of answered my question.
6. How do you use Boolean operators to refine or manipulate resutls?
Answer: By using the words AND, OR, and NOT to combine keywords when searching electronic databases to get more precise search results.
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Research Log Entry 5
1. What was discussed today in class?
Answer: Today in class we discussed about how we could separate each search term using the words and/or in a search engine.
2. What points were particularly important to you and why?
Answer: The points that was important to me was how we could find different results by just adding the word and/or after the search term.
3. How can you use the techniques discussed in class today?
Answer: I could use the techniques discussed in class today to help me find more accurate answers to the questions I have.
4. What ideas and thoughts do you have about this search strategy?
Answer: I think it's a good search strategy because it certainly saves a lot of time in going through each results, with this search strategy you get the kind of results you asked for only.
Answer: Today in class we discussed about how we could separate each search term using the words and/or in a search engine.
2. What points were particularly important to you and why?
Answer: The points that was important to me was how we could find different results by just adding the word and/or after the search term.
3. How can you use the techniques discussed in class today?
Answer: I could use the techniques discussed in class today to help me find more accurate answers to the questions I have.
4. What ideas and thoughts do you have about this search strategy?
Answer: I think it's a good search strategy because it certainly saves a lot of time in going through each results, with this search strategy you get the kind of results you asked for only.
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Research Log Entry 4
1. What was your first question?
Answer: What is the difference between Catholics and other Christians?
2. List all the intermediate questions that you formed between the first question and you final question?
Answer: Who are the Catholics and what are their beliefs? How many kinds of Christians are there? What do Catholics practice? What do other Christians practice?
3. What approaches and ideas did you implement in each of these stages?
Answer: It got me closer to the answer of my question. Now I can see clearly what all links to the question I first had. For example, my question is a tree and all the other intermediate questions are the branches that points out the ideas that would help answer the main question.
4. How would you evaluate your final question? Is it more complex? Do you think you could continue further with this process and come up with something even more complex?
Answer: I think my final question is pretty clear and yes I think I could continue further with this process and come up with something even more complex.
5. What other questions might help you to continue your exploration?
Answer: How was Catholicism created and who was the founder? Which Christians were first to spread the gospel? What caused the differences between Catholics and other Christians?
Answer: What is the difference between Catholics and other Christians?
2. List all the intermediate questions that you formed between the first question and you final question?
Answer: Who are the Catholics and what are their beliefs? How many kinds of Christians are there? What do Catholics practice? What do other Christians practice?
3. What approaches and ideas did you implement in each of these stages?
Answer: It got me closer to the answer of my question. Now I can see clearly what all links to the question I first had. For example, my question is a tree and all the other intermediate questions are the branches that points out the ideas that would help answer the main question.
4. How would you evaluate your final question? Is it more complex? Do you think you could continue further with this process and come up with something even more complex?
Answer: I think my final question is pretty clear and yes I think I could continue further with this process and come up with something even more complex.
5. What other questions might help you to continue your exploration?
Answer: How was Catholicism created and who was the founder? Which Christians were first to spread the gospel? What caused the differences between Catholics and other Christians?
Sunday, October 7, 2007
Research Log Entry 3
1. What was discussed today in class?
Answer: Today in class we compared news sources from different web sites.
2. What points were particularly important to you and why?
Answer: I think that the point that was particularly important to me was that "everything is market driven." All the web sites show us what we want to see. And that one site differs from another site depending on political affiliation.
3. What change will you make in your approach to research?
Answer: The changes I will make in my aproach to research is that I will try to be more curious and persistant while researching on my topic.
4. What other ideas and thoughts do you have about researching the authority of a source, whether it's news, a web site, or some other information source?
Answer: By recognizing if the information is a fact, data, opinion or whether is it subjective or objective.
5. What other ideas and thoughts do you have about topic development?
Answer: To identify important concepts, subjects and key words. And also to select appropriate types of information resources.
Answer: Today in class we compared news sources from different web sites.
2. What points were particularly important to you and why?
Answer: I think that the point that was particularly important to me was that "everything is market driven." All the web sites show us what we want to see. And that one site differs from another site depending on political affiliation.
3. What change will you make in your approach to research?
Answer: The changes I will make in my aproach to research is that I will try to be more curious and persistant while researching on my topic.
4. What other ideas and thoughts do you have about researching the authority of a source, whether it's news, a web site, or some other information source?
Answer: By recognizing if the information is a fact, data, opinion or whether is it subjective or objective.
5. What other ideas and thoughts do you have about topic development?
Answer: To identify important concepts, subjects and key words. And also to select appropriate types of information resources.
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Research Log Entry 2
1. What question did you try to answer?
Answer: What are the symptoms of anorexia?
2. What web search engine or engines did you use?
Answer: Google
3. What search terms did you use to ask your question?
Answer: symptoms of anorexia
4. What was your evalution of your results?
Answer: It was pretty good. I got accurate details and the answer to my question.
5. What other search strategies could you try?
Answer: Maybe do "phrase searching" or add unique words as much as possible.
6. What other questions came into your mind to continue your exploration?
Answer: What are the effects of anorexia? What is the cause of anorexia? Are there any diagnosis or treatment?
Answer: What are the symptoms of anorexia?
2. What web search engine or engines did you use?
Answer: Google
3. What search terms did you use to ask your question?
Answer: symptoms of anorexia
4. What was your evalution of your results?
Answer: It was pretty good. I got accurate details and the answer to my question.
5. What other search strategies could you try?
Answer: Maybe do "phrase searching" or add unique words as much as possible.
6. What other questions came into your mind to continue your exploration?
Answer: What are the effects of anorexia? What is the cause of anorexia? Are there any diagnosis or treatment?
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