Unit 5

Cannell Library

Search Term(s) used:
  Internet

Citation information for one book: (author, title, city of publication, publisher, publication date)
Jeff Kalwerisky, Voice-over Internet Protocol (VoIP) audit/assurance program, Rolling Meadows, Ill., ISACA, 2012

 Subject Headings (taken from the Subject Field)

Internet telephony -- Auditing. Computer network protocols.

 Is this a Circulating Book or an E-Book?
E-Book but also available in print

 Location and Call Number for the Book
Online Resource

What clues in the book record lead you to believe that this book is credible, or trustworthy? (Remember the ASAP criteria from IRIS):
written very recently (2012)
DOES have bibliography




Summit

Search Term(s) used:  Internet, internet piracy


Citation information for one book: (author, title, city of publication, publisher, publication date)
Torr, James D. Internet Piracy. Detroit: Greenhaven Press/Thomson Gale, 2005. Print.

 Subject Headings (taken from the Subject Field)

Copyright -- Electronic information resources -- United States. Sound recordings -- Pirated editions -- United States. Piracy (Copyright) -- United States

 Is this a Circulating Book or an E-Book?
circulating


 Location and Call Number for the Book
Cannell Second Floor

KF3024.C6 I58 2005 c.2  

What clues in the book record lead you to believe that this book is credible, or trustworthy? (Remember the ASAP criteria from IRIS):
not written recently for a book about the internet (2005), might be outdated as opposed to not credible because of both the relatively young age of the internet and the extremely fast rate at which it has grown and evolved (piracy included).



IT Pro

With advanced search you can search for things such as ISBN's, full text, author or publisher.  You can also add additional criteria such as copyright year, categories/words to specifically search or even not search for and whether to use all or any of the criteria. You can also search in specific folders.



Google books


Search Term(s) used:
Internet
History of the Internet


Citation information for one book: (author, title, city of publication, publisher, publication date)
Ryan, Johnny. A History of the Internet and the Digital Future. London, England: Reaktion, 2010. Print.

What clues in the book record lead you to believe that this book is credible, or trustworthy? (Remember the ASAP criteria from IRIS):

recently published (2010) which is good for a history book on a subject as young as this
has good reviews BUT there are only 8 reviews so far on google books



Summary


My favorite was summit, i found it to be very intuitive and detailed, cannell was my least favorite, i found it hard to navigate and to find information for citation. Summit was easy to search and narrow down topics as well as having a citing tool for MLA as well as APA, Chicago, Harvard, and Turabian (whatever that is).  Summit also shows the availability in libraries across the nation as well as clark

 

Research Journal, Part 4: Types of Information The

1) Is a vegetarian diet healthier than a meat-based diet?
I would look for comparison studies through trade publications and scholarly works. Opinion articles from magazines seem like a poor choice because they might not be as in depth or reliable when compared to a study that tests the differences over a period of time; the longer being the better.

2) Target often forces musicians to alter lyrics in order to have
their CDs sold in Target stores. Is this censorship?
being a very open-ended question i would use opinion articles from both sides and find interviews of people who had to do this and their own thoughts about it. I would use Scholarly Journal articles to find a general history about the topic itself and how it was viewed in similar situations in the past.

3) How much more can a college graduate expect to earn over
someone with a high school diploma?
i would find statistics showing the comparison of each from trade publications and articles from trusted/reliable groups such as a government agency or even a book/academic encyclopedia since this topic has been a popular topic throughout history to promote getting a education beyond high school, and to know the proportional differences (if any) between the 2 from past to present.


4) Should educators use commercial services to combat
plagiarism?
also being an open-ended topic, opinion articles would be good as well as books too; as plagiarism has been a controversial topic for a very long time.  i would also try to find out if this has been done before and if it has, what were the results?

5) Is the current lack of sunspot activity affecting global
warming?
i would use scholarly and/or reliable sources since this is a very controversial topic and as a result: bias about it is very common. anything that has been verified as reliable (Scholarly Journals being the best example) would be good. i would try to find  information on sunspots themselves as well as global warming, in addition to whether sunspots affect global warming or not.

1.  how has online online piracy affected the way products are sold both on the web and in physical stores?

i would try to find information on how online stores/purchasing has evolved in recent years and how products were sold before online stores, when they first become popular and in present to make a comparison.  i would use trade publications to learn more about piracy itself and books to help make the comparison between digital and physical products sold in both online stores and regular ones and the differences in methods  sale and protections from before online stores and present day.

2. how has the flow of information  changed from the way it was 30 years ago?

academic encyclopedias and books would be my first choice in order to compare it.  i would look how long it took for information to travel across various distances and and how the methods of doing so have changed over time.

3. how has the rate of growth of the internet changes over time, and how has that affected things that do (or did) not use the internet right now, e.g. a physical newspaper, telephones, etc.

Unit 3: Summary

i learned better ways to narrow topics and come up with a research question,   GVRL has less information than Wikipedia but is a much more acceptable source, as well as not always being as general as Wikipedia.
but Wikipedia has much more articles and are easy to find , and scrolling down to the bibliography and going to those sources is also a good idea, rather than citing Wikipedia itself.
   And when narrowing a topic, looking up synonyms for words helps to find articles that you may not have found with just 1 word, and taking keywords from an article you found after you narrowed the results is also helpful.

Unit 3: research questions

1.  how has online online piracy affected the way products are sold both on the web and in physical stores

2. how has the flow of information  changed from the way it was 30 years ago

3. how has the rate of growth of the internet changes over time, and how has that affected things that do (or did) not use the internet right now, e.g. a physical newspaper, telephones, etc.

Unit 3: Wikipedia

topic: Internet

Tool Used: Wikipedia

Key Words/phrases:
IP address
HTTP
ISP
DNS
Email
P2P
dial-up
boadband
wi-fi
3G
4G
VPN


Wikipedia contributors. "Internet." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 12 Oct. 2012. Web. 14 Oct. 2012.

Unit 3 Post: Internet

Topic: Internet

Tool Used: Gale Virtual Reference Library

Keywords/Phrases: social network
internet
information
youtube
search engine
blog
wiki
voip
online video game
internet piracy
mege upload
individual privacy
world wide web
google
deep web
online stores
anonymous
media

"Internet." Gale Encyclopedia of American Law. Ed. Donna Batten. 3rd ed. Vol. 5. Detroit: Gale, 2010. 489-495. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 14 Oct. 2012.

Unit 2: Plagiarism

1. Last summer, my family and I traveled to Chicago, which was quite different from the rural area I grew up in. We saw the dinosaur Sue at the Field Museum, and ate pizza at Gino's East.

      CORRECT: no citation needed for 

2. Americans want to create a more perfect union; they also want to establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty for everybody.

CORRECT: no citation needed for the authors opinion

3. I find it ridiculous that 57% of high school students think their teachers assign too much homework.
INCORRECT: citation needed to confirm the statistic

Numbers 4, 5, and 6 all refer to the following passage from Martin Luther King's "Letter from the Birmingham Jail":

You deplore the demonstrations taking place in Birmingham. But your statement, I am sorry to say, fails to express a similar concern for the conditions that brought about the demonstrations. I am sure that none of you would want to rest content with the superficial kind of social analysis that deals merely with effects and does not grapple with underlying causes. It is unfortunate that demonstrations are taking place in Birmingham, but it is even more unfortunate that the city's white power structure left the Negro community with no alternative.

4. Martin Luther King was certain that nobody would want to be contented with a surfacy type of social analysis that concerns itself only with effects and doesn't deal with root causes.

INCORRECT: need to cite where that quote is from.

5. Martin Luther King wrote that the city of Birmingham's "white power structure" left African-Americans there "no alternative" but to demonstrate ("Letter from the Birmingham Jail" para. 5).

CORRECT: credit given to MLK and in text citation is correct

6. In "Letter from the Birmingham Jail," King writes to fellow clergy saying that although they "deplore the demonstrations taking place in Birmingham, your statement fails to express a similar concern for the conditions that brought about the demonstrations."

CORRECT: source cited and credit given 

7. My friend Kara told me that she loves living so close to the ocean.
INCORRECT: only an anecdotal and not cited

8. Americans are guaranteed the right to freely gather for peaceful meetings.

CORRECT: common knowledge

citation is important and I've learned that if i plagiarize swat teams will bust in and giant robots will "Terminate" (The Terminator, 1984) those who plagiarize, and people will break into a spontaneous musical number about how to not plagiarize.
    some steps that i take to avoid plagiarism is to read over your writing whenever possible especially when you add new content, and getting other people to read over it will also help greatly. and when in doubt, Always ask your instructor or another qualified person to check your writing.