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especially to MISS ASNA..
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#NOTE
 each of the animation of the post show my felling when I update the post.. :)

week 9

assalamualikom..

hello everyone....
this is last post for this blog..
its even hard to say but i need to do that...because we need to submit this blog for our beloved lecture. even thought our lesson until week 12 but blog is one of our assessment.in the other word 10% of on going mark for the final.. this blog is quite different from information technology blog because it more like tutorial blog for information literacy.. it make me easy when i want to study for this subject i just put my URL links : http://syafawati-literacy.blogspot.com/ for revision.

opzz...
sorry its out of my topic today..
hehehe..in this week we learnt about information analysis

SESSION 1 : introduction to of information analysis.

INFORMATION ANALYSIS..

• Companies, organizations, educational institutions, communities and individual people all serve as information providers for the  electronic Internet community.
• This sharing of resources and information is an example of societal cooperation on a grand scale and has fostered professional and personal communications throughout the world.

EVALUATE..

why?

• When we use a research or academic library, the books, journals and other resources have already been evaluated by a librarian or by a mechanism set up by a librarian.
• When we use an index or a database to find information on any given topic, the index or database is often produced by a  professional or scholarly organization that selects the journals to be indexed on the basis of their quality.

CRITERIA FOR EVALUATING INTERNET SOURCES.

  1.  Purpose

•What is the purpose of the resource?

•Resource should make their purpose obvious at first sight.

•Does the site promote a product?

•Does the resource fulfill the stated purpose?

•If a site provides its own mission statement, the user can verify whether the content matches this statement

•A good resource will not be ambiguous and will not deflect potential users, due to its poor communication of  purpose.

 2.  Scope

•Does the resource cover a subject adequately?

•Breadth : Are all aspects of the subject covered?

•Depth : To what level of detail in the subject does the resource go?

•Time : Is the information in the resource limited to certain time periods?

•Format: Are certain kinds of Internet resources (for example telnet, Gopher, FTP) excluded?

 3. Authority

Institution

•Does the address, specifically the domain, suggest the perspective from which the site was designed and does this suit our purpose?

      For example, ".edu," ".com," ".gov" respectively imply education, commercial, and government origins - a tilde "~" usually indicates a personal web directory, thereby reflecting a personal rather than institutional viewpoint.

Author

•Is Author/Producer  identifiable?

•Does Author/Producer has expertise on the subject as indicated on a credentials page?

•What are the author's professional affiliations?

•Can the author be contacted for clarification or to be informed of new information?

Resource

•Is the information credible and of high quality?

•Is the information objective?

•Is there an obvious bias? Is this site designed for promotional purposes?

•How long has a resource been available (either in print or as an electronic version)?

 4.Audience

•Who are the intended users of this resource?

•At what level is the resource pitched: a subject expert, a layperson, or a school student?

•Will the resource satisfy the needs of the intended users?

•Does your user group correspond to the intended audience?

SESSION 2 AND 3: Criteria of Information Analysis

5.Information content

Accuracy

•Is the information in the resource accurate? Check this against other resources,   or by checking some information about which you have special knowledge.

•Is the origin of the content documented? Are facts verifiable and accurate?

•Is the information factual, or opinion? - Can its objectivity be assessed?

Currency

•Is the resource static or reliant on regular updating?

•Can you rely on this source over time to provide up-to-date information?

•Can the currency of the information be ascertained? Is it possible to assess the currency relative to another source?

    - In case of a document, is a date given?

    - For software, is there a version number?

Uniqueness

•Is the resource original, or has it been derived from other sources?

•Is the information in this resource available in other forms (for example other sites, Gopher, WWW, print, CD-ROM)? What advantages does this particular resource have?

 6.Design and layout

Organization

•Are the resources well organized and logically presented?

•Are the individual Web pages concise, or do you have to scroll forever?

•How big is the resource? - If a resource is particularly large, it should really be sensibly and logically divided into unique and separate segments of information with good navigation links between each segment.

 7.Style & Functionality

•Functionality is of primary importance - Is the general layout of a resource functional?

•Whatever the level of technology employed, it must function well and allow the user to progress logically through the information.

That all for this week.. i do my best to finish this wonderful subject's blog...

see you next semester with the other subject..

i will miss you forever.. <3..

i will miss this awesome literacy's class,

friends

 and

 OUR GORGEOUS LECTURE... MISS ASNA KHAIRUN BINTI ABDUL RAHMAN..

week 8

Hello..

Welcome to Syafa’s blog.

I hope you all in a good and fine day…In this week I quite busy because I have a lot of assessment that need to submit in week 9 and 10.. ohh.. 1 more thing in this week also we have midterm examination for all ICT subject. So what I want to share in this week is still about citation.. As already mention in last week.. In this week I will continue about APA citation.. Here I put my own note that I summarize from my lecture’s slide show.. Hope you enjoy it.

1. What is paraphrasing? 

• Paraphrasing  involves putting a passage from source material into our own words.
• Attribute paraphrases to their original sources.
• Paraphrases are usually shorter than, but may be the same length as the original passage.
• Paraphrases take a more focused segment of the source and condense it slightly.
• Use our own words.
• Keep all the details of the original.
• Cite the source and the date.
• Do NOT use quotation marks

• Summarizing is when we put the main idea(s) into our own words, including only the main point(s).
• Summarized ideas must be attributed to the original source.
• Summaries are significantly shorter than the original.
• Summaries take a broad overview of source material.
• Instead of using many direct quotations in an essay, it is better to paraphrase and summarize our sources whenever possible.
• Use our own words.
• Do not use quotation marks.
• State only the most important idea or fact.
• Use as few words as possible

1. What is quoting? 

• Quoting use the author's words exactly.
• Use quotation marks only for short quotations.
• If our quotation has more than 40 words do not use quotation marks. Indent quotations of more than 40 words.
• Quotations must be identical to the original.
• Quotations use a narrow segment of the source.
• They must match the source document word for word and must be attributed to the original author.
• Use quotes when the actual words are so integral to the discussion that they cannot be replaced.
• Use quotes when the author’s words are so precisely and accurately stated that they cannot be paraphrased.

SIGNAL PHRASES AND IN-TEXT CITATIONS

 Signal phrases introduce someone else’s work – they signal that the words and ideas that are about to be offered belong to someone other than the author of the paper.

 In-text citations are the parenthetical pieces of information that appear usually at the end of a quote, paraphrase, or summary (though they sometimes appear before).

 A simple rule:  Author or Title, Year, and Page: what isn’t signaled up front must be cited at the end.

Summarize of Why source integration?

Quotations – must be identical to the original.

Paraphrases – involved putting a passage from sources material into your own words 

Summaries – put the main idea into your own words. Including only the main point

Single phrases – introduction someone else’s work

In-text citations – are the parenthetical pieces of information that appear usually at the end of a quote,paraphrase, or summary (though they sometimes appear before).

that's all for this week.. see you with the new topic next wekk.. da da da!!

mid term examination...

 hello.....

 in this week.. we have mid term exam.. hope all of us can do the best for this examination.. pray for us..thank you..

there have 45 question.. all the answer are quite confusing.. it make me felt afraid to know my result..
bye!!

week 7

assalamualikom

In this week we learnt about citation. It is one of the tools and strategy to locate information. This topic very useful for our individual assessment: APA report and written report. For me this chapter quite interesting but confusing because we need to memorize all type of citation. In information technology class I already learnt about this topic but we are using references that already given in Microsoft word. By the way for information literacy all the type of citation we need to understand because we need to write without using references that already given in Microsoft word. Let’s me show you what I learnt in this week.

Session 1 : introduction to citation

Another name for citation is bibliography.  It is list of references. Another word is Bibliography / References is a list of books and other material which have some relationship to each other. This material list contains some of component such as author, title, place of publication, publisher and year of publisher.
Why we need to use citation. It can avoid plagiarism. Plagiarism is using others’ idea and words without clearly acknowledging the source of the information.

CITATION AND DOCUMENTING INFORMATION SOURCES

APA styles
What is APA Style and why we use it.
APA Style is American Psychological Association. It style lends consistency and makes texts more readable by those who assess or publish them. It is usually used for term papers, research paper, empirical studies, literature reviews, theoretical articles, methodology and case study.

Rules for citation are author, title and documentation.

FORMAT FOR CITATION.

1. Book

• with one author

 Grainger, A. (1993). Controlling tropical deforestation. London: Earthscan.

• two or more authors

Sawyer, C., McCarty, P., & Parkin, G. F. (1994). Chemistry for environmental engineering.
       (4th ed.).  New York : McGraw-Hill.

• More than six authors

Lofland, L., Moore, M.H., Estrich. S, McGillis, D., Spelman, W., Parker, K. ,et al.(1999) The    new criminology : For a social theory of deviance. New York : Harper & Row.

SESSION 2 AND 3 – INTRODUCTION TO CITATION

FORMAT:

1. CORPORATE BODIES AS AUTHOR
Malaysia. Kementerian Sains, Teknologi  dan Alam Sekitar. (1990). Industrial technology      development : A national plan of action. Kuala Lumpur : Kementerian Sains, Teknologi dan Alam Sekitar.

2. Book more than first edition
Carlton, D. W., & Perloff, J. M. (1994). Modern industrial organization (2nd ed.). New York : Harper Collins College Publishers.

3. Edited books
Freeman, H. M. (Ed.). (1990). Hazardous waste minimization. New York:McGraw-Hill.

4. Journal article
Brown, R. G. W. (1985). Laser fibre optics in biotechnology. Trends in Biotechnology, 3 (8),  200-203.

5. Journal article from internet
Bauer, F. (1997). Selenium and soils in Western United States. The Electronic Green Journal, 7, 3-10. Retrieved October 25, 1999, fro http://egj.lib.uidaho.edu/egj07/bauer.htm

6. Article from internet
Bauer, F. (1997). Selenium and soils in Western United States. Retrieved October 25, 1999, from http://egj.lib.uidaho.edu/egj07/bauer.htm

7. Chapter from books
Damodararao, T., & Sastry, C. A. (1996). Water extraction from sea water acquifer. In C. A. Sastry (Ed.), Water treatment plants (pp. 437-444). New Delhi : Narosa Publishing House.

8. Book with author and editor
Taparia, N. (2000). Columbia world (T. Heideman, Ed.). Chicago: Columbia Press.

9. Article from edited book.
Ernsberger,  P. (2009).  Does social class explain the connection between weight and health.  In E. Rothblum & S. Solovay (Eds.), The fat studies reader (p.  25). New York: New York University Press.
10. Translation book
Taparia, N. (2000). Columbia (M.  Wann, Trans.). Chicago: Columbia Press.

11. Introduction, preface, forehead
Taparia, N. (2000).  Foreword.  In E. Rothblum & S. Solovay (Eds.),The fat studies reader. Chicago: Columbia Press.

12. Magazine article
Pressman,  A. (September 29, 2008).  Bottom fishing in rough waters. BusinessWeek,  27.

13. Newspaper article
Wan Hasnan Hasan. (1998, September 24). JPS baiki aliran sungai elak banjir. Utusan Malaysia, p.11.

14. Magazine through internet
Petrovsky,  A.,  & Miller, L. (2005, August 17). China's new restructuring. The Economist. Retrieved May 25, 2005, from http://www.economist.com/china

15. Dictionary
Oxford dictionary (7th ed.). (2000). Hinsdale. IL: Penguin Press

16. Encyclopedia
Smith, J. (2004). In McDonald (Ed.), Encyclopedia of science and religion. London: Babson Press.

17. Wiki
Star trek planet classifications. (2012). In Wikipedia. Retrieved January 7, 2009, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_planet _classifications

18. Blog
Zompist. (2009, September 30). Star wars: Hope not so new anymore [Web blog message]. Retrieved January 8, 2012 from http://zompist.wordpress.com.

19. Internet video
Crusade2267. (2006, November 02). For the uniform: One fan's obsession with Star trek, part 1 [Video file]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI5Q.

20. Power point presentation
Oard,  D. W. (2001). Bringing Star trek to life: Computers that speak and listen [PowerPointslides]. Retrieved from University of Maryland website: http://terpoconnect.umd.edu.

21. Conference paper
Jaynes, E. T. (1985). Microscopic prediction. In Hanken (Ed.), Complex systems, operational approaches in neurobiology, physics, and computers : Proceedings of the International Symposium on Synergetics at Schloss Elmau, Bavaria, May 6-11, 1985, (pp. 254-269). Berlin : Springer.

22. Unpublished conference paper
Mohd Amin Mohd Som, Ahmad Jusoh, & Abang Abdullah Abang Ali. (1992, September). Perancangan sumber air untuk kesejahteraan sejagat. Kertaskerja dibentangkan dalam Seminar Perancangan Sumber Air, Skudai, Johor.

23. Thesis / dissertation
Safiah Abdullah. (1996). The community structure of fish and prawns in small mangrove creeks in Sungai Sementa Kecil, Selangor, Peninsular Malaysia, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur.

24. Journal article using database on CDROM
Bonner, J.T. (1999, March). The evolution of evolution. Natural History, 108(3), 20-23. CDROM. GPO. Disc No. 99-13-01

That all what I learnt in this week.. But don’t worry next week I will continue with the same topic..daaa.. See you later.

midterm break

hello..

now. i'm in mood holiday..enjoy the midterm break.. but we did't do our midterm for this subject yet..haha..but so far i really enjoy for it..because 7 of us o to Langkawi...

this is some picture while we in Langkawi.. just want to share..

even we in holiday mood but we still don't forget one thing... mid term examination...

bye!! i just wanna to share... my mid term holiday :-P

week 6

Hello........ :-)

Assalamualikom!!!

How are you for this week? Hope all of you happy like me. :-)...

 As you know, every week I need to update my literacy blog. I have learnt something new in this week. For this week, we already learnt about truncation and wildcards. What is that? I do not know even heard about that term before. I am very surprise. hahahaha… over right!!

SESSION 1

For your information, truncation and wildcards are used to broaden our search capabilities by allowing us to retrieve multiple spellings of a root word or word stem, such as singular and plural forms.

TRUNCATION 

Truncation is using a wildcard at the end of a root word to search multiple variations of that root word.
In this search example: protect* OR conserv* OR regulat* would retrieve multiple spellings of these synonyms.
Some databases may allow us to use truncation at the beginning of words or within words (this is called internal truncation)
Truncation expands the search to locate all words beginning with the same root.
Example:  teen* ---> teen, teens, teenage, teenager, etc.)

       

WILDCARD

A wildcard is a special character, such as an asterisk (*), question mark (?), or pound sign (#), that replaces one or more letters in a word.
A wildcard usually represents a single character.
A Wildcard is used in the middle of a word to match usually known variants of a term.
Example: wom?n --->woman, women, and wormy.

SESSION 2 AND 3

PHRASE SEARCHING

Phrase searching is when we use a string of words (instead of a single word) to search with.
We will retrieve fewer results!
Example: We might be looking for information on information literacy. Each one of these words has a different meaning when standing alone and will retrieve many irrelevant documents, but when you put them together the meaning changes to the very precise concept of “information literacy".
We should put our phrase between brackets ( ) or inverted commas ".
Type our search as follows:  “information literacy" or (information literacy)

inverted commas

That all for this week..bye!! bye!! Bye!!

see you later!

week 5

Hello..

Week 5 with new topic..
In this week, I have learnt about apply selected tools and strategies to locate information. My lecture taught us on clearly about this topic. As we know, keywords usually give us more resources or a broader search. Selecting keywords in our research can make our terms become broader and narrower.

Besides, we also learnt about subject headings. Subject headings, which use a standardized vocabulary, usually give us more specific resources on our topic. The official words used by catalogs and many indexes to identify all of the books or articles dealing with a particular topic are called subject headings. Subject headings can be one word, two or more words, a phrase, a city, a country, a person, etc.

SESSION 1 – brainstorming for search terms

Examples of subject headings are:

• Library Subject Headings:

Used as the "official vocabulary" of the Libraries catalog as well as many other library catalogs.

• Science Subject Headings:

Used to describe the content of documents in the Library at AIU as well as in catalogs of other medical and health sciences libraries.

• Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms:

This controlled vocabulary is used by American Psychological Association indexers to describe the content of documents in the database.  These subject headings are sometimes called index terms or descriptors.  The library has copies of the printed volume and the thesaurus is also available online, searchable from within the database.

SESSION 2 AND 3

Then, we also learnt about Boolean operators. This topic is quite an interesting to explore. This topic makes us easy to find the information we need.

Boolean operators is (named for George Boole, 1815-1864, a mathematician) combining terms such as AND, OR, and NOT used in building a search statement or in putting several sets together.
Allows us to group words together in an electronic database or environment such as the World Wide Web to receive a number of different types of results.

Words that connect a search that may add or subtract a concept to our search.

limit the search

expend the search

exclude the search

difference between three of them..

that all for this week..keep smiling..see you next post!!

bye