Unit 6: Database Features and Searching Techniques

Practice Questoins:

1. Will presidential election reform solve the issues with the electoral college and popular vote?
president* elect* AND issue AND electoral college AND popular vote AND sol*

2. Does television advertising by the pharmaceutical industry have an impact on prescription drug abuse?
(television OR TV) advertis* AND pharmac* AND prescri* drug abuse

3. Target often forces musicians to alter lyrics in order to have their CDs sold in Target stores. Is this censorship?
Target AND censorship AND music* AND (alter OR change) lyric*

4. What are the similarities between the Great Depression of the 1930s and the current economic problems?
similar* AND great depression AND (current OR today*) AND econom* problem*

5. What breeds of dogs make good therapy pets?  dog* AND breed* AND therep*

My Research Question:

I really wonder where is information stored that businesses or personal data store on the internet?
(info* OR data*) AND stor* AND (locat* OR place) AND Internet

Unit 5: Types of Information: Focus on Books

Cannell Book Catalog:

Search Terms: Internet and Privacy
Citation: Jasper, Maragret C. Privacy and the Internet: your expectations and rights under the law. Dobbs Ferry, NY : Oceana Publications, 2003.
Subject Headings:
Internet -- Law and Legislation -- United States -- Popular Works -- Privacy, Rights of.
This is a Circulating Book
Location and Call #: Cannell Second Floor KF1263.C65.J38 2003
One of the biggest reasons that this book looks credible is because it is from a series called "Oceana's legal almanac series. Law for the layperson."

Summit Book Catalog:

Search Terms: Internet and Privacy
Citation: Solove, Daniel J. The future pf reputation: gossip, rumor, and privacy on the Internet. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2007.
Subject Headings: Privacy, Right of. Internet -- Law and Legislation. Reputation (Law)
This is a Circulating Book
Location and Call #: Mt. Hood Community College on the Circulation Shelves K3264.C65 S65 2007
I take this as a credible source because it seems like a lot of it is about the law behind privacy and it goes into detail about the pitfalls of putting too much of yourself onto the Internet.

IT Pro:

This is a tricky database to use. The whole system does not look very user friendly, but I have noticed that it looks this way because there is so much opportunity to get into the very specific searches for you topic. I do really like the search withing part. It lets you prioritize what is important in your keyword searches. I have never seen this before in a search engine. I was also shocked to see so much detail in the description, it is basically directory to an online book. The whole book seems to be listed their with an extensive summary of each and every chapter. I researched Internet and Research under all content and the very first book seemed to be a good place to start. Overall I thought it was confusing at first but got to be very beneficial.

Google Books:

Search Terms: Internet and Privacy
Citations: Frackman, Andrew. Ray, Claudia. Martin, Rebecca. Internet and Online Privacy: A Legal and Business Guide. New York City, NY : ALM Publishing, 2002
What I think makes this credible is that so much of the book is here posted, so i can find references and i have a through outlook on the book because i can read it. This is different to most of the others because I don't have to assume if it is a good quality book.

Summary

This weeks tools are giving me an opportunity for trial and error. When I was on the first catalog, I had to try a few different times in order to get anything to appear. There is a fine line between the balance of too many search terms and too brief, but much of this is specific to the topic you want to look at. I did like looking at Cannell's because I know that what I find there is available to me, and is very close to me. Summit is still something that I won't choose to rely on as the others, because i think that they are pulling information from too many different areas, and when i am needing some research, I typically need it right then and not in 3-5 business days. IT Pro is my favorite because of the detail it allows. Google Books are great but because it is simply google and free to everyone I try not to use it.

Unit 4 - Exploring Types of Information

Practice Questions:

1. If I were wanting to look up information on vegetarian diets vs. meat-based diets, the best place to look would be a nutritional based scholarly text book. I think that most people would assume that their favorite magazines would have articles that would fit their needs, but magazines are always in the business to make money while scholarly journals are trying to get the best and most current information.

2. Having a topic that is general like censorship and applying it to something that everyday people encounter on a normal basis, like target, is best to be researched in magazine articles. Scholarly journals are not going to focus in on a store like target. This would make an interesting story that a large audience would enjoy, so this is something that could sell in a magazine.

3. As a college student myself, I would be interested in knowing what the difference in wages will look like when having a college degree as opposed to high school diploma, it would be best to look at a trade journal because this is a very job specific question. A trade journal will give you the information on that occupation rather than averages over the whole country for all jobs in general.

4. This is a question that is very much so related to what is happening currently, and would be a result of something in the news. A simple news article could give different opinions on this topic, and it would create an interesting story to talk about.

5. If I cared to look up information global warming affected by lack of sunspot activity, I would need to look it up in a current scholarly textbook. This is research that would have to be answered from scientific studies and would most likely appear in a textbook.

My Questions:

1. I wonder where the information and data is stored on the Internet. Is there an archive where all of the information is stored. I think there are a lot of parts to this question and I could find some unique things about it in a magazine, but to get clear answers to this question I will have to look up information from a scholarly book about computer technology or the Internet.

2. How safe is posting on blogs or social media when nothing can truly be deleted? This is a very common thing that i hear people talking about because there is fear of the growing industry of online activity. I think that in order to get the best opinions on this I would look at multiple magazine articles and cross reference their opinions with each others to see what is the common belief.

3. Is anything ever gone and taken down from the Internet, or will it always be accessible. I think that this is more of a tricky question to research, however it could probably be found in some sort of a police training which would be indicated in a trade journal. I am sure there is something that teaches detective to uncover very old things from the Internet.

Unit 3: Exploring Topics Continued

Tools:

Out of the Four basic topics to choose from, I chose internet. On GVRL and on Wikipedia I focused more on the loading and storing of information and data.

Keywords/Ideas:

Here is a list of the common keywords or idea that I think of when looking up "Internet" are:
Access
Services
Cite
Web
Connection
Protocol
Input
Speed
Appropriation
Explorer
Database
Social Media
Marketing
Commercial
Network
Advertisement
Search
Information
History
Relational
International
Education
Technology

Questions:

I really wonder where is information stored that businesses or personal data stored on the internet?

How safe is posting on blogs or social media when nothing can truly ever be deleted?

Is anything ever gone from the internet?

Is there a capacity that the internet can hold, or is it an infinitely growing space?

Is my blog post ever going to be deleted after I select "Publish"?

Citations:

GVRL Article
Iannone, A. Pablo and Briggle, Adam. Information Overload. "Encyclopedia of science, Technology, and Ethics. Ed. Carl Mitcham. Vol. 2. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2005. p1011-1013

Wikipedia Article
Wikipedia Contributors. "Internet Archive." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia, 6 May. 2006. Web. 13 Oct. 2012

Unit 3: Exploring Topics

Summary:

I had never known about GVRL before, and it was a nice resource to use other than basic google strategies. I am a firm believer that if you need some basic starter information or you just need a definitionn of something, wikipedia is an amazing resource to use. However i do understand that it is not a very reliable and credible source for using information in an essay. Having GVRL at Clark is an easy way to find credited articles to use for my argumentative pieces, especially in my English classes. When I researched the basic topic "Movies", it is clear that wikipedia is more of a history lesson on the transformed movie culture over time, but on the Gale Virtual Reference Library, it gave me sub categories to look into many different subcategories of the overall theme.

Unit 2: Plagerism

1: This does not need to be corrected because it is an anecdote.

2: This is a quote from the Declaration of the United States and it does need to be quoted with a citation.

3: When using factual evidence you need to prove the source so yes it needs to be changed.

4: The statement has paraphrased a point from the excerpt and so by giving credit to King this is okay.

5: When changing words from a piece of writing, the proper way is bracket the words you switch. this could more properly be cited.

6: The writer has not properly shown from where the quote was taken from.

7: This is close but because it is a quote, it needs quotation marks to give her full credit.

8: There is no proof of why we are given this freedom without citing a source.

In this day in age, I have been taught a lot about the awareness of plagiarism, but the biggest point that I learned about it this week was that when i write an essay it is important to have work cited in the essay and in a bibliography. It is not an option of one or the other, it is both.