Searching for Sources

If you're not in a library database, you're probably googling.  More on that.

Click around in Google -- see Google Scholar?  Anything else?

You have time to search.  On Monday you must have your sources identified and ready to enter into a bibliography (Works Cited page).

Homework:

Finalize decisions about sources, take notes, add paraphrased information to paper.

The C.R.A.A.P. Test

What is it about the internet? Sources and reliability. Google: famous failures. See this? Compare to this.

Let's think about the C.R.A.A.P. test for this site. Currency? Relevance? Authority? Accuracy? Purpose?

Pay attention to these factors as you look at database sources. Tomorrow we'll look at Google for sources.

Revised schedule for this paper:

Friday: Google and sources.

9/10 Monday: EasyBib -- Have at least three sources for your paper. Be ready to creat the Works Cited page.

9/11 Tuesday:  Shared In-Class Essay (you must type it during class inside Moodle).

9/12 Wednesday: Draft to share (only one draft for this paper. Submit to TurnItIn and bring to class).

9/13 Thursday: Revising

9/14 Friday: Final Version Due

9/17 Monday: Last Short Essay  Final Daybook check

9/18 Tuesday:  Count your pages -- Portfolio work

9/19 Wednesday:  Final

Homework:

Be finding useful sources, take notes, and add paraphrased information to your paper.

Library Databases

I return your Problem/Solution papers. I hand out the next paper's assignment sheet.

Now an example of giving credit where credit is due: Virginia Lee Burton. Who leads us to this story.

We look at the SCC databases. You go to the LRC on The Hub (under Student Services) or click here. Click around on the different collections; the most useful to you will be EBSCOhost and Gale/Cengage. Each one works a little differently, but each inside each one, if you find something useful, find the button that emails it to you.  That way you don't have to remember anything about it; it's in your email.

I hand out a worksheet. This must be filled out before this research is done.  You may or may not use the sources you list here; this is to practice finding the information. You do NOT have to fill out all the blanks; they don't all apply to every source.

Then off to the lab to look at possible sources and fill out your worksheet.

Homework:

1.  Find three sources through databases and record them on this worksheet.  These may or may not be used in your paper. The worksheet will be part of the LAST daybook check.

2.  TWFTD: paraphrase in OED.

Intellectual Property

 

This comic comes from XKCD.com, where you see this permission:

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License.

This means you're free to copy and share these comics (but not to sell them). More details.

This is in contrast to The Lincoln Journal Star's Terms of Use. 

Today you type up your short essay in response to the prompt handed out last Thursday. Here it is:

Think about the difference between "having" an idea, "using" an idea, and "stealing" an idea. Do you “own” your ideas? How should this be enforced?

 

Come up with a statement reflecting how you think we should treat the ideas of others, and then support your thesis with two or three paragraphs.  Use specific, interesting examples to back up your views.

 

You might focus on the issue in school, on the internet, or on a specific industry.

 

You might also consider specific types of ideas: music, inventions, films, books or software. Don’t try to cover it all.

Turn in your daybooks.

Homework:

1. This essay must be turned in at the beginning of class tomorrow.