英國留學生essay范文：Searching the Internet & Referencing

 

 

引用是用于分配已被用于從其他來源的想法告訴讀者。有許多原因為什么它是重要的參考源。每當一個分配使用的話，事實，思想，理論解釋，或從其他來源，源必須引用。引用時所需要的是：你復制的話從一本書，文章，或其他來源地；你用一個想法或事實從外部來源，即使您沒有使用他們的確切措辭。

 

 

通過這個任務，我明白了多種搜索工具的應用和如何獲取信息，并提供了很多幫助，對我今后的essay，dissertation和博士dissertation。掌握信息檢索，為我提供了很多好處：避免重復研究或走彎路，減少不必要的浪費，節省時間和精力研究，幫助我掌握更多的知識。

 

 

Part 1: HWU own search engine and Google's Advanced Search 'site-only' facility

 

 

1 For the question of “What is ‘citing’?”

When, in your work, you use an idea from a book, journal article, etc.,essay范文 you must acknowledge this in your text. This is referred to as ‘citing'. A "citation" is also the way you tell your readers that certain material in your work came from another source. It also gives your readers the information necessary to find that source again.

 

 

2 For the question of “What is ‘referencing’?”

Referencing is used to tell the reader where ideas from other sources have been used in an assignment. There are many reasons why it is important to reference sources correctly. Whenever an assignment uses words, facts, ideas, theories, or interpretations from other sources, that source must be referenced. Referencing is needed when: you have copied words from a book, article, or other source exactly; you have used an idea or fact from an outside source, even if you haven't used their exact wording.

 

 

3、4 For the question of ‘plagiarism ’

Plagiarism is using someone else’s words or ideas without giving proper credit to the author of the original.

All of the following are considered plagiarism:

• turning in someone else's work as your own

• copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit

• failing to put a quotation in quotation marks

• #p#分頁標題#e#giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation

• changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit

• copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority of your work, whether you give credit or not 

 

 

 

5 Explain and illustrate how you can get yourself suspected of plagiarism.

We will get suspected plagiarism based on the following:

a) The language and style of writing you used in the suspected paper differ from those that you normally employ. Usually, teachers can easily spot the discrepancies, as the text seems too perfect and ‘polished’ and rich in academic jargon and specialist phraseology. This is a shaky strategy, so you should be careful about using it.

b) The usage of models or resources, which were not taught by your tutor or not available in your library. In this case, you should always bear in mind that, should the need arise, your tutor or academic commission will certainly be asking you questions regarding the resources that you used to write your paper.

 

 

6 How does the University deal with suspected plagiarism?

After detection takes place and evidence is gathered that plagiarism is suspected in a student’s work, academics must follow department and institution procedures. These procedures vary across departments and institutions.

A number of university departments were contacted asking academics to provide a summary of the procedure they follow in their department to deal with suspected plagiarism cases. The procedure summaries the responses, and provides an indication of the types of activities which are likely to need to be undertaken.

The procedures for dealing with suspected plagiarism cases vary among universities. It is important to familiar yourself with own departmental and/or university procedures for dealing with suspected plagiarism cases.

 

 

7 How can you make clear that a specific part of a text is not your work or your idea, but is originating from someone else?

You can learn how to avoid plagiarism by brushing up on some key skills, such as: note taking, summarising, paraphrasing, referencing, citing sources.

Harvard referencing style a generic description for any referencing style that uses in-text citations with an author and date. In that sense, APA style is a type of Harvard referencing. However, many individual styles describe themselves as Harvard. They vary from source to source in small details.

 

 

The Vancouver Style is based on an ANSI standard adapted by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) for databases such as Medline. References are numbered consecutively in the order they are first mentioned. Place each reference number in parentheses, throughout the text, tables, and legends. If the same reference is used again, re-use the original number.#p#分頁標題#e#

 

 

8 The Harvard style of referencing a web page:

Order: author, year, document title, site controller/sponsor, location of controller/sponsor, date of viewing, URL address

The Vancouver style of referencing a web page:

For journals, the entire page range of an article or chapter is given, not the specific page on which the information was found. For books, no page numbers are given, with two exceptions: the page number of a dictionary entry is included, as well as the page range of a chapter with its own author.

 

 

9 The usefulness of the information provided by the HWU web site

The HWU web site provides so much information, such as commenting the global issues, the study information of undergraduate and postgraduate, the news & events newly, data library and so on. This information is very useful for studies.

 

 

10 Compare and contrast the use of HWU own search engine with using Google's site-only facility when searching the HW web site.

HWU web site and Google's site-only facility are both provide the detailed searching information, but there are some differences in the ways of providing information. HWU web site provides information in PDF format, and they are some papers and documents. Google's site-only facility provides information in more ways, such as PDF, PPT introduction and so on.

 

 

Part 2 Searching the Internet

 

1 Explain and illustrate for each of the following Search Engines for what kind of search situations they can be used best.

 

1) Primary Search Engine, e.g. Google - Ask.com

Generally, Google and ask.com are used to searching for foreign information and professional information.

 

 

2) Meta search engine, e.g. Dogpile

The search results of Dogpile are easy for browsing, and the automatic classification technology enhances the function of the organization of search results. It can also automatically correct common spelling errors, more convenient to us to use the Dogpile. It has the strong capabilities of image retrieval.

 

 

3) Classified Directory, e.g. The Open Directory

The Open Directory shall be an ever evolving Directory that is very worthwhile bookmarking and visiting regularly to find those higher ranked relevant sites that you may require or have an interest as new sites that currently Rank below PR3 continue to grow and progress, these will become eligible for listing in The Open Directory

 

 

4) Google Book Search

The Google books can search all books in full compliance with the readers’ need, and find some new books making readers interested in, and it is also feasible for readers browsing and downloading, watching the book review.#p#分頁標題#e#

 

 

5) Google Scholar

Google Scholar is free search tool specifically for academic resources, including journal articles, dissertations, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports, including the academic literature, covering natural sciences, the humanities, social sciences and other disciplines to help users query.

Google Scholar have some purposes as follows: to learn more about a field of academic literature; to understand the writings of an author, and bibliographic information; to know a literature citations; applications and references to literature and periodicals ranked.

 

 

6) Subject gateway / Subject launch pad, e.g. Pinakes

Pinakes is the Western world's first library classified directory. It has four features, and they are structure model of openness and tolerance, multiple sort multiplexed mode, the normative the standardization literature describe format, use of quotations, logo retrieval.

 

 

7) Semantic Web

Some of the basic characteristics of the Semantic Web:

 

a. The Semantic Web is different from the WWW, and it is the expansion and extension of the existing WWW;

 

b. The existing WWW is document-oriented, but semantic network is represented by the document-oriented data;

 

c. Semantic Web will be more conducive to the computer "to understand and deal with", and has a certain judgment and reasoning ability.

 

 

2 How you can refine your searches when working with keywords

When submit the keywords to a web space, there are some content about them. Then we will make choices for the contents, and according to the contents we need to choose search engines. We will check how relevant submitted content to keywords and SEO efforts. Then the search engines impression of the consistency of your actions determines how high you rank in search results for particular keywords.

 

 

3 Compare and contrast the usefulness of Wikipedia with the Discovery tab on the Library's home page while trying to find an article.

Wikisource is a free, wiki-based knowledge repository, including every language version of the complete original documents, and they are translated into many kinds of languages. Wikibooks is the open-content textbooks collection that anyone can edit.

Discovery is the brand of TV the world's most widely used, providing 24 hours of high-quality documentary programs, and provide a variety of high-quality factual entertainment for the audience, the documentary covers the field of nature, science and technology, ancient and modern history, adventure, culture and current affairs, leading the audience in-depth insight into the inner mysteries of the world around us.#p#分頁標題#e#

 

 

4 How can you search for something you don't know what you are searching for?

Based on the keywords or the characteristics of the information to retrieve the information we need for. Then choose the suitable searching tools.

 

 

Part 3 Evaluation

Through this assignment, I understand the application of multiple search tools and how to retrieve information, and these provide a lot of help for my future assignments, essays and dissertation. Grasp of information retrieval provides me a lot of benefits: avoiding duplication of research or detours, reducing unnecessary waste; saving time and energy of research; helping me to acquire more knowledge.