Today, I use the "Internet Detective" tutorial to learn more about doing online research for academic work at http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/detective/index.htmlQ1. What is the traditional quality control system for work published by academics?
Peer review
Q2. You've just been set an assignment. Where should you start looking for sources?
The library web site
Q3. What should you do if you are unsure whether a web site you are thinking of using as a source for your work is genuine?
Leave it out of your work
try and crack this case ...
Take a look at the eSharp journal [ http://www.sharp.arts.gla.ac.uk/ ] (Open the link in a new window, or use the live link below)
Q1. What does the URL suggest about this journal?
They are based at a UK university
Q2. Is this journal ...
An academic journal?
Q3. Is the journal peer reviewed?
Yes
get on the case with some search engine results ...
Search for Global Warming
a) Global WarmingDispelling myths of global warming by exposing flawed economic, scientific, ... Peyton Knight of the National Center for Public Policy Research responded, ...www.globalwarming.org - 75k - 17 Jan 2006
b) Global warming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia'Global warming' is a specific case of the more general term 'climate change' ... her survey of 928 peer-reviewed scientific abstracts on climate change ...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming - 98k - 17 Jan 2006
c) The EPA Global Warming Kids PageFocuses on science and impacts of global warming or climate change, and onactions that help address global warming. Features games, events, and links to ...www.epa.gov/globalwarming/kids/ - 10k
d) Journal home : NatureNature is the international weekly journal of science: a magazine style ... news@nature.com ...www.nature.com/nature/ -
Q1. Supporting your research
Which of the above sites would you choose to look at first if you were looking for articles to support your dissertation research?
Journal home : Nature
Q2. Helping with homework
Which of the above sites would you choose to look at first if you wanted to help your 12-year-old cousin with his homework?
The EPA Global Warming Kids Page
Identity Parade
Which of these web sites is the real web site for the American White House? (links should open up in a new window)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/
keep the right side of the law
Q1. The Penalties of Plagiarism
What could happen to a student who is found guilty of plagiarism?
They fail that essay completely.
Q2. Plagiarism
Which of the following would you consider to be plagiarism?
Cutting and pasting a few paragraphs from a web site into your work.
Taking information from a web site and using a thesaurus to put it into your own words (paraphrasing) and then into your work.
Stating a piece of information in your work that is common knowledge.
Putting information from a web site into your work in quotation marks.
Paraphrasing information from a web site in your work and citing and referencing the source.
Working together with your friends to find web sites for your essay.
Q3. Copyright
If a web site does not have a copyright symbol © you can copy information, ideas or images from it for use in your own work and you do not need to say where you found them.
False
Q4. Citing and referencing
What information do you need to give in your reference to a web site?
The URL of the web site
The year of publication
The name(s) of the author(s)
The name of the web site
The date you accessed the web site
Q5. Citing and referencing
Which of the following shows a correct example of a reference to a web site using the Harvard style?
WALKER, A., 2002. WTO falls victim to spoof web site. British Broadcasting Corporation [online] [cited 5/12/05]
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