Zhu Ye
LIBY1551
Revised Essay Response: Web Sites & Journal Articles
After I watched the Advanced Formats Presentation, I feel really regret that I didn’t watch this video earlier. When I was writing essays for other class, the professor always ask us to use scholarly resource to back up our claim. And list a reference in our writing; such as books, school articles and journal to support my idea. And I just search my topic and claims by Google, then find something related and linked to my essay. I cannot properly evaluate my searched website and wasted many time. There are many differences between a scholarly journal article and a website. However, I used to think that scholarly journal articles and websites are almost the same, just appear in different places. But now I have a clearly recognize that these two things are different.
For this essay, the basic question for us to answer is “What is the difference between a scholarly journal article and a website?” I don’t think this is a fair question for me about the fairness issue. I get really confused about this question. What’s the point about this question? Is it asking that web site and journal articles are different or not? Of course they are different, but they also get somewhere similarly. I don’t think this question is a good way to differentiate between the two formats fair.
As the “Advanced Formats Presentation” says that “Web sites, to some, signify ‘junk’ information.” While the “printed book, journals and newspapers, signify reliable, quality information to them”. They have similar and difference. One article can appear both in scholarly journal and website. The website and journal can offer exactly same article.
The scholarly journals’ articles are known as “peer-reviewed, academic, refereed, or professional journals”. The characters of scholarly journal can be separated from different parts. First of all, the author is researcher or scholar in the field and famous; for example, a mathematics professor in Harvard University is more expert than a primary teacher who teach math at elementary school. Secondly, the audiences are other scholars and professionals or students who familiar with the field, not people with few education. And the purpose for scholarly journals is not for commercial use or trade, but to report original research, experiment, or theories. And it cited its sources clearly in the references list.
In other words, a scholarly journal should have a nice general title and give us detail of content, such as references list; also some specific authors mentioned and affiliations with known reliable sources. We can conclude as clean authorship, a specific date, brief but fairly substantial and useful information for academic writing. Government documents can be used in scholarly journals also. Scholarly journals are some available online and they have their own web sites too. So we cannot say scholarly journals are absolutely inked and printed.
Another question for me to think about is the way that different formats manifest themselves online and does the process used to create the information in those formats change when online or in print. The scholarly article always have a simple and sententiousness look and don’t have any advertisement. But the website comes both ways, some schools have their own communication website and both professor and students upload their articles to share and revised. When we view them, it’s in HTML format (website), but when we want to download it; it has an option of document format. We can skip the mass of advertisements and only download the article. It’s a good use of website.
We need reliable information in our academic research, so we don’t need “off limits” web sites which is unsuitable and useless in our research. The website with many ads is not trustworthy for academic research. The purpose for that website is to sell stuff rather than offer you academic knowledge. Uncertain authority and very sloppy references is main characters of an “off limits” website. Blogs is important and widely used today, but we cannot use personal blogs as a college-level research source. These social networks are very easy to recognize, so you don’t want to use people’s diary in Facebook or MySpace as a support sources. But we can still find sources for academic writing in web sites. A website with a .org or .edu may more reliable than others in research. There is a link “about us” tells the information about who created this website and response for the article it posted. By checking these, we can decided if it is “off limits” or suitable for use.
2009年8月20日星期四
Revised Essay Response: Authority
Zhu Ye
LIBY1551
Revised Essay Response: Authority
Well, to me, it seems that if you want to be an expert in something, you must familiar with it. That’s the basic thing. Then after you get to know it, you have your own opinion of it. And you share it with your friends and learn from them. After a while, you may feel that it is not enough for you. And you start to learn from the internet or from the library. If you don’t have the chance to use these ways, you learn from strangers. And you correct yourself from the learning; your knowledge growth by time. And people who talked with you learn from you. You also learn from your experience. The longer you learning in one area or in one thing, the more you learn. And the more you learn, the more you get closer to be an expert. And talking about authority, in our mind, the authority always occurs to the field of professor or those people who are filled with knowledge. We all know that the knowledge and authority are all from people, from many experiments. But we also have social knowledge, they are from society, which means each person may have own opinion, and these opinions may be the authority in the future.
In the article “The Book Stops Here”, Daniel H. Pink discusses the way that the encyclopedias’ creation has changed by time. He tells us about the story of Wikipedia, an online self repair and free encyclopedias. How does it come from and who can contribute to it. And he also compares it with the traditional printed encyclopedias which created and worked by the “expert” approach.
He presents Wikipedia as a model and discusses it in many ways. The key of this model is free and fluid. It is open to anyone and the information may update any time. I think Wikipedia makes more sense than the traditional encyclopedias. People who edit in Wikipedia wants to contribute on it and share their knowledge with other people, not in purpose of harm the project. And it they offer the inaccurate information which misleading readers, other “crowd of amateurs” may find this error and correct freely and quickly.
For the “Crowd of amateurs” such as encyclopedias like Wikipedia, it is “fluid, fast, fixable, and free.” Anyone can contribute to it and made it better. However, the information they provide may radicalness or misleading people. But like the printed encyclopedias, their knowledge is limited. Just like the “expert” approach. Ignore this fact, the “expert” approach is more neutrality than “Crowd of amateurs”, all the articles are written without any bias.
Like the example gives in “The books stop here”, “Wikipedians are directed not to take a stand on controversial subjects like abortion or global warming but to fairly represent all sides.” Here we can see that neutrality is important to any encyclopedias; not only in “expert”, but also in “crowd of amateurs”.
The authority changes in different contexts, from the early autobiography, and then people were trying to get a model to organize those authorities of expert people, people finally learned to use computer to be their medium. For example, in the academic journals, the professor in famous college may consider authority if they teach for many years or published many academic scholar journals. For the books, the author must know if very well in order to write so many words. For Wikipedia, we talked about this above.
For students like me in college, we have to evaluate the quality of an information sources and tell if it is match for our academic writing. My understanding of authority is the library; the books store in the library must be authority. People who published a best seller book must be an expert in it. Also the encyclopedias are authority to me; both published and online. I will get authority from library, and I will use them that I learned to enhance my opinion or cripple others’ opinion. Those authorities will help me to display my thinking. However, when I face to a newest thinking or I never met before during academic work and non-academic work, I will never blindly trust a new authority, I should use more and more knowledge and self-estimation to solve those works.
LIBY1551
Revised Essay Response: Authority
Well, to me, it seems that if you want to be an expert in something, you must familiar with it. That’s the basic thing. Then after you get to know it, you have your own opinion of it. And you share it with your friends and learn from them. After a while, you may feel that it is not enough for you. And you start to learn from the internet or from the library. If you don’t have the chance to use these ways, you learn from strangers. And you correct yourself from the learning; your knowledge growth by time. And people who talked with you learn from you. You also learn from your experience. The longer you learning in one area or in one thing, the more you learn. And the more you learn, the more you get closer to be an expert. And talking about authority, in our mind, the authority always occurs to the field of professor or those people who are filled with knowledge. We all know that the knowledge and authority are all from people, from many experiments. But we also have social knowledge, they are from society, which means each person may have own opinion, and these opinions may be the authority in the future.
In the article “The Book Stops Here”, Daniel H. Pink discusses the way that the encyclopedias’ creation has changed by time. He tells us about the story of Wikipedia, an online self repair and free encyclopedias. How does it come from and who can contribute to it. And he also compares it with the traditional printed encyclopedias which created and worked by the “expert” approach.
He presents Wikipedia as a model and discusses it in many ways. The key of this model is free and fluid. It is open to anyone and the information may update any time. I think Wikipedia makes more sense than the traditional encyclopedias. People who edit in Wikipedia wants to contribute on it and share their knowledge with other people, not in purpose of harm the project. And it they offer the inaccurate information which misleading readers, other “crowd of amateurs” may find this error and correct freely and quickly.
For the “Crowd of amateurs” such as encyclopedias like Wikipedia, it is “fluid, fast, fixable, and free.” Anyone can contribute to it and made it better. However, the information they provide may radicalness or misleading people. But like the printed encyclopedias, their knowledge is limited. Just like the “expert” approach. Ignore this fact, the “expert” approach is more neutrality than “Crowd of amateurs”, all the articles are written without any bias.
Like the example gives in “The books stop here”, “Wikipedians are directed not to take a stand on controversial subjects like abortion or global warming but to fairly represent all sides.” Here we can see that neutrality is important to any encyclopedias; not only in “expert”, but also in “crowd of amateurs”.
The authority changes in different contexts, from the early autobiography, and then people were trying to get a model to organize those authorities of expert people, people finally learned to use computer to be their medium. For example, in the academic journals, the professor in famous college may consider authority if they teach for many years or published many academic scholar journals. For the books, the author must know if very well in order to write so many words. For Wikipedia, we talked about this above.
For students like me in college, we have to evaluate the quality of an information sources and tell if it is match for our academic writing. My understanding of authority is the library; the books store in the library must be authority. People who published a best seller book must be an expert in it. Also the encyclopedias are authority to me; both published and online. I will get authority from library, and I will use them that I learned to enhance my opinion or cripple others’ opinion. Those authorities will help me to display my thinking. However, when I face to a newest thinking or I never met before during academic work and non-academic work, I will never blindly trust a new authority, I should use more and more knowledge and self-estimation to solve those works.
Get to know web-based apps (optional extra credit)
Directions:* Choose two applications from different categories above.
I choose Google docs from Office functions categories and Gliffy from Visual/mindmaps categories.
* Create an account for each application and/or install application on your browser (if necessary).
I use my Gmail to apply an account and set the password and account name. And I also sign up for Gliffy for free. I use the same account name in order to remember.
* Create a simple document/spreadsheet/presentation/mindmap/note/whatever and play around and check out the features of each application.Answer the following questions about each application:
1. Tell me about the application and what you found out while exploring it. Post a link to your creation in your workbook.
There are many uses for Gliffy, as on the website, we can do “Flow Charts, Network Diagrams, Business Process Diagrams, Org Charts, Floor Plans, Technical Drawing, SWOT Analysis, UML/Class Diagrams, UI Wireframes” and so on. I like the Floor Plans very much. It’s very funny for me to do the floor plan online. By Gliffy, I don’t need to draw the pictures and can create the room’s organized in my mind.
http://www.gliffy.com/gliffy/#d=1797979&t=bedroom_plan
This is the link for my bedroom plan. I will develop it in the future when I have more time to do it. There are many options on the floor plan. I get something belong to living room and add them into my bedroom. I did mix the stuff together. I put pool table into my living room. I like pool!
And for the Docs Google, after I upload one of my essays, I found that it is similar to Windows Office Word, it got spelling check, it can insert pictures, diagram and blank pages and it almost has everything I need to write an article. And the most important thing is that it is free! Also it has the option of share. I can share it with whoever I want easily. I just need to post it into Google docs and send the links to my friends; I can receive their feedback immediately and can view different editions.
http://docs.google.com/Edit?docid=dcq6cpgd_6d67rj7hr
And this is the link for Docs Google, I share it with your email address, I hope you get it.
2. What might you use this application for in your school and personal life? What special feature of this application do you like best and how does it work?
For the Floor Plan, I will use it in personal life in the future absolutely. It’s really a useful tool. I have a lot of fun in doing this, and it encourages my ability of organization and creation.
For Docs Google, I think it’s a good way for me to upload and save my essays. I can edit it online in case I forgot my U disk or didn’t bring the laptop. Also I can share it with other people safely and quickly. When I renew it, I don’t need to send it again. I’m sure there will be more beneficial, I just didn’t get them all in short time. That’s why I will keep use this in both my school and personal life. They are free and helpful!
I choose Google docs from Office functions categories and Gliffy from Visual/mindmaps categories.
* Create an account for each application and/or install application on your browser (if necessary).
I use my Gmail to apply an account and set the password and account name. And I also sign up for Gliffy for free. I use the same account name in order to remember.
* Create a simple document/spreadsheet/presentation/mindmap/note/whatever and play around and check out the features of each application.Answer the following questions about each application:
1. Tell me about the application and what you found out while exploring it. Post a link to your creation in your workbook.
There are many uses for Gliffy, as on the website, we can do “Flow Charts, Network Diagrams, Business Process Diagrams, Org Charts, Floor Plans, Technical Drawing, SWOT Analysis, UML/Class Diagrams, UI Wireframes” and so on. I like the Floor Plans very much. It’s very funny for me to do the floor plan online. By Gliffy, I don’t need to draw the pictures and can create the room’s organized in my mind.
http://www.gliffy.com/gliffy/#d=1797979&t=bedroom_plan
This is the link for my bedroom plan. I will develop it in the future when I have more time to do it. There are many options on the floor plan. I get something belong to living room and add them into my bedroom. I did mix the stuff together. I put pool table into my living room. I like pool!
And for the Docs Google, after I upload one of my essays, I found that it is similar to Windows Office Word, it got spelling check, it can insert pictures, diagram and blank pages and it almost has everything I need to write an article. And the most important thing is that it is free! Also it has the option of share. I can share it with whoever I want easily. I just need to post it into Google docs and send the links to my friends; I can receive their feedback immediately and can view different editions.
http://docs.google.com/Edit?docid=dcq6cpgd_6d67rj7hr
And this is the link for Docs Google, I share it with your email address, I hope you get it.
2. What might you use this application for in your school and personal life? What special feature of this application do you like best and how does it work?
For the Floor Plan, I will use it in personal life in the future absolutely. It’s really a useful tool. I have a lot of fun in doing this, and it encourages my ability of organization and creation.
For Docs Google, I think it’s a good way for me to upload and save my essays. I can edit it online in case I forgot my U disk or didn’t bring the laptop. Also I can share it with other people safely and quickly. When I renew it, I don’t need to send it again. I’m sure there will be more beneficial, I just didn’t get them all in short time. That’s why I will keep use this in both my school and personal life. They are free and helpful!
2009年8月6日星期四
Academic Search Premier
There are 6 main types of published works you will find in Academic Search Premier
1. empirical research articles (in which experimental research is documented) [academic journals]
2. theoretical or review articles [academic journals]
3. commentary/response articles [academic journals]
4. magazine and newspaper articles [popular literature]
5. book reviews [both academic and popular]
To answer the following questions, you will need to find each article in Academic Search Premier using the information provided. You may need to limit by specific fields and explore other limiters from the Refine Search menu in order to do this, take your time. Once you find each article, read its abstract and answer the questions.
1. Which of the above types of published works would be considered primary sources?
+ empirical research articles
+theoretical or review articles
+magazine and newspaper articles
2. The author is Tripathi and the article title is “Land of the blessed.” What type is it? Cite it in correct APA format.
The type is a book review.
The APA format :Tripathi, S. (2008, January 21). Land of the blessed. New Statesman, 137(4880), 55-56. Retrieved February 20, 2009, from Academic Search Premier database.
3. The author is Carpenter and it was published in “Prevention” in 2008. What type is it? Cite it in correct APA format.
I believe there are actually two articles that are able to answer this.
a. This is a popular literature- magazine or newspaper article.
The APA format: Carpenter, S. (2008, February). joy: how to make it last. Prevention, 60(2), 182-187. Retrieved February 20, 2009, from Academic Search Premier database.
b. This is a popular literature- magazine or newspaper article.
The APA format:Carpenter, S. (2008, December). IS YOUR PARENT OVER-MEDICATED?. Prevention, 60(12), 142-151. Retrieved February 20, 2009, from Academic Search Premier database.
4. The author is Boehm and it was published in “Journal of Career Assessment.” What type of article is it? What is the main conclusion of the article? Cite it in correct APA format.
Academic Journal article- theoretical or review article
Conclusion: The author talks about how happiness is what makes a successful workplace, rather than happiness just coming from the workplace.
The APA format: Boehm, J. (2008, February). Does Happiness Promote Career Success?. Journal of Career Assessment, 16(1), 101-116. Retrieved February 20, 2009, from Academic Search Premier database.
5. The author is Farmer and it is published in “Foreign Affairs.” What type is it? Cite it in correct APA format.
This is a commentary/response article to the essay "The Challenge of Global Health."
The APA format: Farmer, P. (2007). From Marvelous Momentum to Health Care for All. . (pp. 155-159). Foreign Affairs. Retrieved February 20, 2009, from Academic Search Premier database.
6. The authors are Levin, Reysen & Ganz and the article title is “The kindness of strangers revisited.” What type is it? Cite it in correct APA format.
This is an Academic Journal article- empirical research article
The APA format:Levine, R., Reysen, S., & Ganz, E. (2008, February). The kindness of strangers revisited: a comparison of 24 US cities. Social Indicators Research, 85(3), 461-481.
1. empirical research articles (in which experimental research is documented) [academic journals]
2. theoretical or review articles [academic journals]
3. commentary/response articles [academic journals]
4. magazine and newspaper articles [popular literature]
5. book reviews [both academic and popular]
To answer the following questions, you will need to find each article in Academic Search Premier using the information provided. You may need to limit by specific fields and explore other limiters from the Refine Search menu in order to do this, take your time. Once you find each article, read its abstract and answer the questions.
1. Which of the above types of published works would be considered primary sources?
+ empirical research articles
+theoretical or review articles
+magazine and newspaper articles
2. The author is Tripathi and the article title is “Land of the blessed.” What type is it? Cite it in correct APA format.
The type is a book review.
The APA format :Tripathi, S. (2008, January 21). Land of the blessed. New Statesman, 137(4880), 55-56. Retrieved February 20, 2009, from Academic Search Premier database.
3. The author is Carpenter and it was published in “Prevention” in 2008. What type is it? Cite it in correct APA format.
I believe there are actually two articles that are able to answer this.
a. This is a popular literature- magazine or newspaper article.
The APA format: Carpenter, S. (2008, February). joy: how to make it last. Prevention, 60(2), 182-187. Retrieved February 20, 2009, from Academic Search Premier database.
b. This is a popular literature- magazine or newspaper article.
The APA format:Carpenter, S. (2008, December). IS YOUR PARENT OVER-MEDICATED?. Prevention, 60(12), 142-151. Retrieved February 20, 2009, from Academic Search Premier database.
4. The author is Boehm and it was published in “Journal of Career Assessment.” What type of article is it? What is the main conclusion of the article? Cite it in correct APA format.
Academic Journal article- theoretical or review article
Conclusion: The author talks about how happiness is what makes a successful workplace, rather than happiness just coming from the workplace.
The APA format: Boehm, J. (2008, February). Does Happiness Promote Career Success?. Journal of Career Assessment, 16(1), 101-116. Retrieved February 20, 2009, from Academic Search Premier database.
5. The author is Farmer and it is published in “Foreign Affairs.” What type is it? Cite it in correct APA format.
This is a commentary/response article to the essay "The Challenge of Global Health."
The APA format: Farmer, P. (2007). From Marvelous Momentum to Health Care for All. . (pp. 155-159). Foreign Affairs. Retrieved February 20, 2009, from Academic Search Premier database.
6. The authors are Levin, Reysen & Ganz and the article title is “The kindness of strangers revisited.” What type is it? Cite it in correct APA format.
This is an Academic Journal article- empirical research article
The APA format:Levine, R., Reysen, S., & Ganz, E. (2008, February). The kindness of strangers revisited: a comparison of 24 US cities. Social Indicators Research, 85(3), 461-481.
2009年8月1日星期六
Essay two
Well, to me, it seems that if you want to be an expert in something, you must familiar with it. That’s the basic thing. Then after you get to know it, you have your own opinion of it. And you share it with your friends and learn from them. After a while, you may feel that it is not enough for you. And you start to learn from the internet or from the library. If you don’t have the chance to use these ways, you learn from strangers. And you correct yourself from the learning; your knowledge growth by time. And people who talked with you learn from you. You also learn from your experience. The longer you learning in one area or in one thing, the more you learn. And the more you learn, the more you get closer to be an expert.
In the article “The Book Stops Here”, Daniel H. Pink discusses the way that the encyclopedias’ creation has changed by time. He tells us about the story of Wikipedia, an online self repair and free encyclopedias. How does it come from and who can contribute to it. And he also compares it with the traditional printed encyclopedias which created and worked by the “expert” approach.
He presents Wikipedia as a model and discusses it in many ways. The key of this model is free and fluid. It is open to anyone and the information may update any time. I think Wikipedia makes more sense than the traditional encyclopedias. People who edit in Wikipedia wants to contribute on it and share their knowledge with other people, not in purpose of harm the project. And it they offer the inaccurate information which misleading readers, other “crowd of amateurs” may find this error and correct freely and quickly.
For the “Crowd of amateurs” such as encyclopedias like Wikipedia, it is “fluid, fast, fixable, and free.” Anyone can contribute to it and made it better. However, the information they provide may radicalness or misleading people. But like the printed encyclopedias, their knowledge is limited. Just like the “expert” approach. Ignore this fact, the “expert” approach is more neutrality than “Crowd of amateurs”, all the articles are written without any bias.
Like the example gives in “The books stop here”, “Wikipedians are directed not to take a stand on controversial subjects like abortion or global warming but to fairly represent all sides.” Here we can see that neutrality is important to any encyclopedias; not only in “expert”, but also in “crowd of amateurs”.
The authority changes in different contexts, for example, in the academic journals, the professor in famous college may consider authority if they teach for many years or published many academic scholar journals. For the books, the author must know if very well in order to write so many words. For Wikipedia, we talked about this above.
For students like me in college, we have to evaluate the quality of an information sources and tell if it is match for our academic writing. My understanding of authority is the library; the books store in the library must be authority. People who published a best seller book must be an expert in it. Also the encyclopedias are authority to me; both published and online.
In the article “The Book Stops Here”, Daniel H. Pink discusses the way that the encyclopedias’ creation has changed by time. He tells us about the story of Wikipedia, an online self repair and free encyclopedias. How does it come from and who can contribute to it. And he also compares it with the traditional printed encyclopedias which created and worked by the “expert” approach.
He presents Wikipedia as a model and discusses it in many ways. The key of this model is free and fluid. It is open to anyone and the information may update any time. I think Wikipedia makes more sense than the traditional encyclopedias. People who edit in Wikipedia wants to contribute on it and share their knowledge with other people, not in purpose of harm the project. And it they offer the inaccurate information which misleading readers, other “crowd of amateurs” may find this error and correct freely and quickly.
For the “Crowd of amateurs” such as encyclopedias like Wikipedia, it is “fluid, fast, fixable, and free.” Anyone can contribute to it and made it better. However, the information they provide may radicalness or misleading people. But like the printed encyclopedias, their knowledge is limited. Just like the “expert” approach. Ignore this fact, the “expert” approach is more neutrality than “Crowd of amateurs”, all the articles are written without any bias.
Like the example gives in “The books stop here”, “Wikipedians are directed not to take a stand on controversial subjects like abortion or global warming but to fairly represent all sides.” Here we can see that neutrality is important to any encyclopedias; not only in “expert”, but also in “crowd of amateurs”.
The authority changes in different contexts, for example, in the academic journals, the professor in famous college may consider authority if they teach for many years or published many academic scholar journals. For the books, the author must know if very well in order to write so many words. For Wikipedia, we talked about this above.
For students like me in college, we have to evaluate the quality of an information sources and tell if it is match for our academic writing. My understanding of authority is the library; the books store in the library must be authority. People who published a best seller book must be an expert in it. Also the encyclopedias are authority to me; both published and online.
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