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1 Writing in the Disciplines Frederic Murray Assistant Professor MLIS, University of British Columbia BA, Political Science, University of Iowa Instructional Services Librarian Al Harris Library frederic.murray@swosu.edu

2 How does Google Search work?

3 Google Search PageRank (algorithm) –500 million variables –2 Billion Terms Bias? Popularity is a Proxy for Importance

4 Personalized Search Google’s algorithm will suggest “what is best for you” – based on past searches. It’s as if we looked up the same topic in an encyclopedia and each found different entries.

5 Personalized Search Find information that is most likely to reinforce your own worldview We begin to lose dissenting opinion/conflicting points of view Yet search seems neutral, objective, unbiased.

6 Personalized Search & the Internet When ideology drives the dissemination of information, knowledge is compromised. Inadvertently we indoctrinate ourselves with our own ideas. Google is likely to direct you to material with which you already agree.

7 SO WHAT?

8 What are the repercussions for research carried out in an environment where Search itself is being compromised?

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10 Best Practice A major error is to look only for sources whose ideas, findings, or arguments they already agree Do not start out to prove “X” Start out to find out about “X”

11 “There are days when the result is so bad that no fewer than five revisions are required. In contrast, when I'm greatly inspired, only four revisions are needed." --John Kenneth Galbraith

12 Boyer, Paul S., and Stephen Nissenbaum. Salem Possessed; The Social Origins of Witchcraft. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1974. WRITING is essentially REWRITING… REWRITING…

13 Exercise I: Research Puzzle

14 The Research Process GET A TOPIC DEVELOP YOUR SEARCH STRATEGY SEARCH AND READ WRITE YOUR PAPER, SPEECH PRESENTATION ETC. CITE YOUR SOURCES

15 P.A.W. Planning Assignments Wisely P.A.W. gives you step-by-step instructions for writing good papers and finishing them on time.

16 Boolean AND = Narrow OR = Expand NOT = Exclude

17 Tools of Scholarship Content Books Articles Journals Citations WWW Tools Catalogs Databases Lists Indexes Search Engines

18 Catalogs: List of Books Al Harris Catalog Open WorldCat Ebrary

19 E-Books: EbraryEbrary 24/7 Full Text Searching* Highlight Markup Note Taking Online Bookshelf Chapter Results

20 Choose Appropriate Databases Subject Specific: –CINAHL = Nursing –BIOSIS = Zoology Search a range of databases Think about the range of sources: books, journal articles, statistics, websites, conference reports…

21 JSTOR Includes archives of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Search by discipline: Sociology

22 We think of citation patterns as the flow of information," says Carl Bergstrom, a biologist at the University of Washington. "That's what a citation is — the trace that an idea flowed from one place to another."

23 Snowballing Building on the works of others A scholarly article will always have References/Bibliography A bibliography is always ripe for the picking…

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25 Bibliography

26 Tracking Citations Wild, D. (2003, March). GOING TO WAR: A LITERATURE REVIEW. Emergency Nurse, 10 (10), 18. Retrieved June 4, 2009, from Academic Search Complete database

27 Tracking Citations Wild, D. (2003, March). GOING TO WAR: A LITERATURE REVIEW. Emergency Nurse, 10 (10), 18. Retrieved June 4, 2009, from Academic Search Complete database

28 The Citation Video

29 Class Exercise Citation Worksheet Identify Citation as Book (B) or Journal (J) Locate Item in Catalog or Database Identify name of Catalog or Database

30 Specialized Search Wolfram/Alpha –A computational knowledge engine: it generates output by doing computations from its own internal knowledge base, instead of searching the web and returning links. Scrius –For scientific information only. A web based comprehensive scientific research tool. Ipl2 –Internet Public Library (IPL) and the Librarians' Internet Index (LII). A directory.

31 Questions? Contact me: Frederic Murray 774-7113 frederic.murray@swosu.edu

32 Thanks!

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