Exploring Topics Summary

This unit allowed me to really understand the helpfulness of deep web researching. To finally notice the completely condensed and organized information that deep web resources have to offer has me kicking myself for not using it more in my life. I always resorted to the easy Google searches and occasional Wikipedia searches when i was completely stuck. No longer shall i resort to browsing the cheap unofficial websites that Google's crawlers (a new term i learned also) have discovered. I shall spend at least 75-80% of my time searching in the deep web encyclopedias that are completely focused to providing the exact information needed, rather than random quips and parcels of info that Google and Wikipedia offer.

Internet Research Questions

After reading the Internet articles on the GVRL and Wikipedia and gathering information through keywords and reading i composed three research questions

1. the Internet is Worldwide, how does this attribute help with media, communication, and recreational activities throughout the world?

2. The internet is full of Information, how does is this data and knowledge become so convenient for research?

3. Through the whole interconnected system of the internet how does the internet become orgaized with its endless amounts of links, documents, and pages?

Exploring Topics Wikipedia

Exploring the same topic of Internet, except with Wikipedia, i added to my list of keywords
Keywords
- Links
- Services
- Convenient
- Documents
- System
- Browser
- Pages
The article of Internet on Wikipedia was very extensive and gave a great overview of the major parts of the Internet. It also gave lots of info on the background pieces of the internet such as governance, Protocols, etc.
Citation Information
Internet. (2013, April 25). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 05:15, April 29, 2013, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Internet&oldid=552049422

Exploring Articles GVRL

I chose the topic of Internet to explore. Using the Gale Virtual Reference Library I read through multiple articles and acquired an exstensive list of keywords that realted to Internet,
Keywords
- Worldwide
- Network
- Computer
- Virtual
- Navigating
- Connection
- Data
- Software
- Interface
- Information
- Media
- Research
- Communication
- Social
- Recreational
One article that looked interesting was David Myers article on the internet as it listed common aspects of the internet and also gave info of how the started and how it was used.
Citation Information
Internet
David Myers
Encyclopedia of Recreation and Leisure in America
Ed. Gary S. Cross. Vol. 1. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2004.
 pages 471-476

Plagiarism

Safe Practices: An Exercise

1. Correct and requires no citation as it is a personal experience.

2. If the information is taken from a source a citation would be needed. If by chance this was taken from an online resource or book of some source a citation would defiantly be needed telling where the information is located in correlation to the bibliography and the location of the info gathered in the bibliography.

3. There is absolutely no citation of where the statistic came from. Also I would rewrite the citation by putting  "According to ______, "57%  of high school students think their teachers assign too much homework."(___)

4. This seems to be a good paraphrase as long as long as there are parentheses at the beginning and end of the paraphrase.

5.  Another great paraphrase of the passage to me this one looks fine the way it is and no improvements would be necessary.

6. This info has no citing as to where it would be located to in the bibliography or to the starting work.  A parentheses  at the end of the paraphrase with (King, para 5) i would believe would suffice to citing the source.

7. This info would not need to be cited as it is personal info.

8. I'm not sure if this would be needed to be cited as it seems common sense to me as I am American and know my rights. If this were to be sent to other countries or something along those lines and i was not sure if the receiver would know the bill of rights as i do.



By reading the resources on plagiarism from the Clark online library, I believe i have improved my skills of documenting resources and noticing plagiarism. I feel like the idea of COP: Collect, Organize, Punctuate is going to stick in my head as i cite sources from now on. The concept is very easy to grasp and understand and lays out a great guide map on where to start and end. If i were to practice using COP more (as i believe i will in this class), The use of citations in schooling and academics will be a piece of cake from here on out.

First Post

First post of the bloggiest of blogs. Seems like using blogger will be quite easy to use as it is very simple. Using Blogger as a workspace is i will be able to access my internet resources faster than having to write down addresses and then typing them back into my computer later. I am a member of Facebook and Twitter but i am very unactive on them as i am not too involved in social media yet.