Home - PMC - NCBI. Social Science Research Network (SSRN) Home Page. The National Bureau of Economic Research. Welcome · Digital Public Library of America. Top Ten Databases - Top Ten Databases to Start Your Undergraduate Research - Research & Technology Guides at University of Michigan Library. Ckan - The open source data portal software. Welcome to ARTstor. Far Left Robert Henri La Reina Mora, 1906 Colby College Museum of Art Top Center Winslow Homer Girl Reading, 1879 Colby College Museum of Art Bottom Center Winslow Homer Girl in a Hammock, 1873 Colby College Museum of Art Far Right Edward Hopper House with a Big Pine, 1935 Colby College Museum of Art Featuring: Colby College Museum of Art Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver Killing Time, 5/25/1991 This image was provided by the Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc.
X-Cheerleaders Wanted X-Cheerleaders, 11/25/1994 This image was provided by the Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc. Guy de Cointet Two Drawings, 5/9/1978 This image was provided by the Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc. Lorraine O'Grady Fly By Night, 2/10/1983 This image was provided by the Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc. Featuring: Ephemeral Art from Franklin Furnace Yoruba peoples Ibeji with beaded gown Fowler Museum (University of California, Los Angeles) Ewe peoples Venovi Figures Fowler Museum (University of California, Los Angeles) Jacob A. Jacob A. Current subscribing institutions | ARTstor. DATABASE OF VIRTUAL ART. Quality You Can Rely On | AggData. Rijksmuseum: Explore the collection. Research Databases & Archives. National Libraries. Library of Congress Home.
Smithsonian. National Archives and Records Administration. The British Museum. The Bedford Research Room. Flow of Information. The Timeline: A look at linear time and information: from the occurrence of an event, era, social movement or discovery, ...to the documentation of evidence relating to this event, era, social movement, etc.to how the evidence is disseminatedand how researchers (and term paper writers) can find this documentation One Day - Days Later Articles appear in newspapers , and information is disseminated on TV, radio and web pages . Depending on the event or occurrence, this information may be prolific or sparse.
For example: a general news search in Lexis Nexis lists 102 articles on the Exxon Valdez oil spill that appeared March 25 - March 31, 1989, just a few days after the event. A Week - Weeks Later Articles appear in popular magazines . Example: General magazine : Church, George J.,The big spill. Subject-focused magazine : Barinaga, Marcia, Fisheries first to suffer. Magazines Six Months or More Later Articles appear in scholarly or academic journals . Example: Alaskan oil spill: legal fallout. Information Portals. Skills for Online Searching - ipl2 A+ Research & Writing. Learn how search syntax works Search syntax is a set of rules describing how users can query the database being searched. Sophisticated syntax makes for a better search, one where the items retrieved are mostly relevant to the searcher's need and important items are not missed. It allows a user to look for combinations of terms, exclude other terms, look for various forms of a word, include synonyms, search for phrases rather than single words.
The main tools of search syntax are these: Boolean logic Boolean logic allows the use of AND, OR and NOT to search for items containing both terms, either term, or a term only if not accompanied by another term. The links below and all the Web search engines "search help" have a lot of good examples of Boolean logic. Wildcards and truncation This involves substituting symbols for certain letters of a word so that the search engine will retrieve items with any letter in that spot in the word. Phrase searching Proximity Capitalization Field searching. Working with data. Visual Literacy in an Age of Data.
Statistician Hans Rosling inserts himself into charts during a TED talk and creates a narrative around the data. Shazna Nessa explains visual literacy and why it’s critical for data visualizers to take it seriously. It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. —Henry David Thoreau Data visualization work in journalism has been flourishing over the past few years both to find and analyze data for investigative purposes and to present information to the public. I have spent over a decade in newsrooms, first making interactive graphics myself and then overhauling and overseeing graphics, interactive, and multimedia teams. To keep our work more daring and innovative, news leaders have been creating interdisciplinary teams in order to boost creative possibilities, hiring talent outside of traditional journalism, from backgrounds in technology, statistics, or art.
Data Visualization and Journalism What Is the Problem? A New “Visual Grammar” in Journalism Connected China Start Here. Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Sources. Using primary sources. Repositories of Primary Sources. Home - Journalist's Resource Journalist's Resource: Research for Reporting, from Harvard Shorenstein Center. Palmquist, Bedford Researcher 4e Student Center. Citation Styles - Citing Sources - Guides at Texas A&M University. How to make presentations: techniques, handouts, display technologies. Terry Teachout, who long ago reviewed my Visual Display of Quantitative Information for the National Review (!) , and who is more famous for his arts reviews and his always interesting weblog has some good advice about making presentations (for authors on bookstore tours, and others as well): "A speech—and this includes a reading—is a performance.
It's theater. The people who came to hear you don't want you to shamble up to the podium, mumble a few unintelligible introductory words, open up a store copy of your book, and stick your nose in it for the next half-hour. To that end, here's how I do my readings, step by step: (1) Don't read too much. . (2) Write your speech out word for word. Which brings us to (3) Time the speech exactly. . (4) Never speak for as long as you're asked. . (5) Choose a fairly self-contained excerpt from the book.
. (6) Don't read from a printed copy of the book. . (7) Rehearse, rehearse, rehearse! One last thing: Synthesis. Research Trends: Special Focus, The Arts & Humanities. The Arts & Humanities include a diverse range of subjects, including many of the oldest intellectual pursuits such as Philosophy, Religion, Music, History, Art, Theatre and Literature. These disciplines, along with fields such as Language, Linguistics and the History of Science, share a common concern with humanity and culture. This mutual interest means that we can expect much of the research in the Arts & Humanities to bridge disparate fields, in much the same way as modern scientific research increasingly links traditionally separate disciplines. One method for investigating this multidisciplinarity of research is to look at the citation links formed between journals when a paper published in one journal makes reference to a paper published in another.
The Arts & Humanities landscape The Arts & Humanities as a subject area is only rarely the focus of bibliometric analyses, due to a common emphasis within the bibliometric community on citation analysis. Mapping journal context. How to Read an Assignment. Writing "Original” Papers § Harvard Guide to Using Sources. Some writing assignments you receive at Harvard will explicitly ask you to present an "original" thesis, claim, or idea. But even when the word "original" isn't mentioned, you should assume that your professor expects you to develop a thesis that is the product of your own thinking and not something drawn directly from a source and planted in your paper.
Occasionally an assignment will require only a summary of your reading, particularly if the instructor wants to make sure you have understood a particularly complex concept; however, some assignments may be worded in a way that leaves expectations ambiguous (you may be asked, for example, to "discuss" or "consider" a source), and you may think you are only expected to summarize when, in fact, you are expected to make an argument. When in doubt about whether you are supposed to make an argument in your paper, always check with your instructor to make sure you understand what you're expected to do. Plagiarism Isnt Just an Issue for Students. On Quotes and Quoting. Plagiarism. You have something in common with the smartest people in the world. You see, everyone has ideas. We use our minds to create something original, whether it’s a poem, a drawing, a song, or a scientific paper.
Some of the most important ideas are published and make it into books, journals, newspapers and trustworthy websites that become the building blocks for things we all learn. But ideas are also very personal, and we need dependable ways to keep track of the people behind the ideas we use because they deserve credit for their contribution, just as you do if someone uses your idea. Passing off another person’s ideas or words as your own, without credit, is called plagiarism. Meet Cassie, a university student. She’s not the kind of person who would plagiarize by turning in someone else’s work, but she is aware that plagiarism can happen accidentally, so she follows some basic rules: Second, she’s careful to use only her own words when she’s not quoting directly. Plagiarism detection in PowerPoint presentations. Googling the phrase "bullets imply no significant order" yields many jackpot matches with the Harvard-Florida work. These slides listed below may have, however, made an appropriate attribution of the original source, something that can be verified by examining the relevant slides.
[PDF] Guidelines for Effective Visuals File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML Bullets imply no significant order. *. Use numbers only to show rank or sequence. ?? 2002 Institute for Healthcare Improvement. [PDF] Dear , File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML Bullets imply no significant order. *. UT System Office of Public Affairs Bullets imply no significant order and are preferred to numbers. [PDF] PowerPoint Presentation and Style Guidelines for Presentations to ...
[PPT] Guidelines for Preparing Slides File Format: Microsoft Powerpoint - View as HTML Bullets imply no significant order; Use numbers to show rank or sequence. -- Edward Tufte. Research. Posters. Research. Lol My Thesis. Student Resources. In Context - Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Opposing Viewpoints in Context is the premier online resource covering today’s hottest social issues, from Offshore Drilling to Climate Change, Health Care to Immigration.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context helps students research, analyze and organize a broad variety of data for conducting research, completing writing assignments, preparing for debates, creating presentations and more. In addition to the engaging, streamlined interface and media-rich topic pages, the product's unprecedented collection of content and curriculum-focused tools that help students explore issues from all perspectives include: Opposing Viewpoints in Context contains more than 700 Greenhaven Press, Gale, Macmillan Reference USA™, Charles Scribner’s Sons® and U·X·L titles. New reference content is added on an ongoing basis, and new full-text periodical and newspaper articles are added every day. Included in the resource are: Citelighter - The fully automated bibliography, research, citation, and internet highlighting tool. Citebite - Link directly to specific quotes in web pages.
Ultimate Research Assistant - Generate Research Report. The Web Credibility Project - Stanford University. MLA Research Exercises. How to Write an Original Paper. The need for media literacy in the digital age. Today’s students are not being equipped with the critical thinking and analysis skills they need to successfully navigate our media-saturated environment.
Time spent consuming media, now up to nearly eight hours a day, continues to increase, but students often are poorly versed in analyzing and understanding different media messages and formats. They prefer to see the world of media messages as simple and straightforward, to be taken at face value, according to recent research in the field of media literacy. While students express confidence that media messages have clear primary meanings and sources that can be easily identified, media literacy demands nuanced thinking about message creators as well as their goals and values. TBR Research presents insights and excerpts from peer-reviewed scholarship. John Kelly In a Boise State classroom, educational technology lecturer Chris Haskell, left, discusses an assignment with a student. Further Reading Dyson, R. Ewen, S. (1996).
Kubey, R. How To Make Students Better Online Researchers. I recently came across an article in Wired Magazine called “ Why Kids Can’t Search “. I’m always interested in this particular topic, because it’s something I struggle with in my middle and high school classes constantly, and I know I’m not alone in my frustrations. Getting kids to really focus on what exactly they are searching for, and then be able to further distill idea into a few key specific search terms is a skill that we must teach students, and we have to do it over and over again.
We never question the vital importance of teaching literacy, but we have to be mindful that there are many kinds of “literacies”. An ever more important one that ALL teachers need to be aware of is digital literacy. In the past, we spent a lot of time in schools teaching kids how to do library research, and how to use a variety reference materials like dictionaries, encyclopedias, microfiche, card catalogs, public records, anthologies, and other sources too numerous to recall. The real answer? 1. 2. School of Data - Evidence is Power. The legitimacy and usefulness of academic blogging will shape how intellectualism develops. Academic blogging has become an increasingly popular form, but key questions still remain over whether blog posts should feature more prominently in formal academic discourse.
Jenny Davis clarifies the pros and cons of blog citation and sees the remaining ambiguity as indicative of a changing professional landscape. The wider scholarly community must learn how to grapple with these ethical and professional questions of rigor in standards of academic sourcing. In this post I attempt to tackle a complex but increasingly important question: Should writers cite blog posts in formal academic writing (i.e. journal articles and books)? To begin with full disclosure: I cite blog posts in my own formal academic writing. But not just any blog posts. I am highly discriminate in what I cite, but my discriminations are not of the cleanly methodical type which can be written, shared, and handed out as even a suggested guide.
Pros and Cons of Blog Citation Pros Cons Three Orienting Questions 1.) 2.) 3.) Unintentional Knowledge - The Chronicle Review. By Julio Alves I started teaching writing in graduate school 20-plus years ago, and it did not take me long to start looking forward to the pile of research papers at the end of the semester. Unlike much of the writing earlier in the semester, done from assigned readings and carefully crafted prompts, the research papers tackled broad, open-ended questions.
Students developed their own ideas and went to the library to research topics of their choice. It was exciting to see how they made sense of what they read. But that was in the old days, before the ease and precision produced by the Internet. Now students hardly ever use books in their research, and their papers have become as predictable as those they write from assigned readings.
When I started teaching, books were easier to find than articles, whose references were buried deep in voluminous, thin-paged indexes. As periodical-search engines blossomed, students, ever adaptable, started using more articles. Monk - Search & annotation tools for handwritten manuscripts. Be a Wikipedia Editor.
From Wired How-To Wiki Let's get one thing out there first: Anybody can edit Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia. In that sense, anyone can be a Wikipedia editor. However, to be trusted within the Wikipedia community requires a bit more effort. This article will show you how easy it is to get started and set you on the right path to being a Wikipedia editor. You're looking at a Mediawiki wiki, and it works in the same way Wikipedia does. If you're reading this, you're probably new to wiki editing.
That shouldn't stop you from practicing. Make Your First Edit Go to the Wikipedia homepage and search for a topic about which you are knowledgeable. You will be taken to a page with a large text box, inside of which is the content of the article. If you want to edit only a particular section of an article, find the "edit" link near that section's heading. In that case, the edit-text box will only have the content from that small section, which can help you find the spot you want to edit. Animated Information Graphics: Using Data and Motion to Reveal the Story. Ideas by Creativity Pool. Welcome | Teaching Copyright. Copyright and Creative Commons.