Saturday, March 31, 2012
Saturday, March 24, 2012
WEEK 3
During this week we learned about Plagiarism and how avoided it. According with
thefreedictionary.com:
Plagiarism “is the act of
appropriating the literary composition of another author, or excerpts, ideas,
or passages therefrom, and passing the material off as one's own creation”. In
my own words Plagiarism is stole ideas from others and put them in our work,
without any recognize of the original author’s attribution.
To learn about it our
teacher share some web pages, in which we can find complete information about Plagiarism
and how can avoid it http://www.plagiarism.org/. http://www.pvc.maricopa.edu/researchhelp/plagiarism.html.
In this topic also, we
could learned about some simple forms to avoid plagiarism. First, we can use citations that are the best form of
telling people that any information source that we include in our work is not
ours. Also, to avoid plagiarism use paraphrase
is the good way. It means to put into our own words ideas of other author.
Finally, using quotation we can
repeat one expression to attribute by citation to its original source.
Finally, in this
week learned that for the first way to avoid plagiarism (citation) the most
common style that is used around the world is the APA style. It refers to the
rules and conventions established by the American Psychological Association for
documenting sources. To know more about APA style you can visit this web page http://www.library.cornell.edu/resrch/citmanage/apa, in which you can find all the steps that you must
follow to avoid plagiarism.
In conclusion, to
eradicate plagiarism we have to know what it is? And how to avoid it. Only,
with this information we can able to eliminate it definitely.
What
is plagiarism?
How
avoid it?
Saturday, March 17, 2012
WEEK 2
This week I learned a
lot of things. Also, we review about evaluating web pages; the teacher
gave us a useful page in which we can find a lot of information.
In my opinion, I think that this web page is very useful because it provides some steps with which we can evaluate web sites and with its help we can identify if the information that we find on the web is reliable or not. First, we must know how is the type of the information that we need, because on the net we can find three types of categories such as: Advocacy that provides a wealth of information, Commercial that provides short articles and other useful information, and Reference or information sites that offers a full range of information on a topic. Second, we must know all possible information about the author or the institution that published the web page. It is important for the page’s credibility. Third, we need to pay attention in the content of the page (biased or balanced) that depends in the type of information that we need; in the coverage, that provides how well the site covers the topic, and in the currency that indicates the time-sensitive of the page. Finally, to know what people think about the page is a good way to recognize if the site is reliable or not. In conclusion, to obtain good and credible information on the net, we have to follow these steps to evaluate web pages.
Finally in this class, we took a practice quiz about evaluating webpage that I think it will help us in the real quiz.
In my opinion, I think that this web page is very useful because it provides some steps with which we can evaluate web sites and with its help we can identify if the information that we find on the web is reliable or not. First, we must know how is the type of the information that we need, because on the net we can find three types of categories such as: Advocacy that provides a wealth of information, Commercial that provides short articles and other useful information, and Reference or information sites that offers a full range of information on a topic. Second, we must know all possible information about the author or the institution that published the web page. It is important for the page’s credibility. Third, we need to pay attention in the content of the page (biased or balanced) that depends in the type of information that we need; in the coverage, that provides how well the site covers the topic, and in the currency that indicates the time-sensitive of the page. Finally, to know what people think about the page is a good way to recognize if the site is reliable or not. In conclusion, to obtain good and credible information on the net, we have to follow these steps to evaluate web pages.
Finally in this class, we took a practice quiz about evaluating webpage that I think it will help us in the real quiz.
Saturday, March 10, 2012
WEEK 1
In this week we had two classes the Internet and
Multimedia. In the first class, we remembered how to create an e-mail and a new
blog.
In the second class, we learned how to recognize a web
page, because is very important to know if the web pages with we work are
reliable or not. For this, we must put pay attention in the URL´s page, because
it indicates if the page is personal or not. Also, we can recognize if the page
belong a specific institution. We can know this for the URL´s ending or domain.
For example:
·
Government sites: ending in.gov
·
Educational sites: ending
in.edu
·
Nonprofit organizations: ending
in .org, etc
With these two simple steps we can know if the page is good or if it
contains questionable information.
Finally, all these knowledge we could learn for an useful page that our teacher
shared with us.
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