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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 Writing Across the Disciplines Read & discuss current theories related to writing in the disciplines work. Consider the rhetorical appropriateness of different genres to convey your ideas. Create a research project that applies what you’ve learned in this course to a rhetorical situation of your choice. COURSE OBJECTIVES

3 Course Component Research portfolio (including a proposal (50), annotated bibliography (100), completed text (100) with abstract (25), and final writer’s memo (25))

4 Information Age

5 21 st Century Search Overreliance on Algorithms - IssueIssue Conceptual understanding of how information is organized – Solution Discerning Scholarly Resources – Solution

6 Continuum (DIKW) Data Information Knowledge Wisdom

7 Terms of Understanding Data comes about through research, creation, gathering, and discovery. Information has context. Data is turned into information by organizing it so that we can easily draw conclusions. Data is also turned into information by "presenting" it, such as making it visual or auditory. Knowledge has the complexity of experience, which come about by seeing it from different perspectives. This is why training and education is difficult - one cannot count on one person's knowledge transferring to another. Knowledge is built from scratch by the learner through experience. Information is static, but knowledge is dynamic as it lives within us. Wisdom is the ultimate level of understanding. As with knowledge, wisdom operates within us. We can share our experiences that create the building blocks for wisdom, however, it need to be communicated with even more understanding of the personal contexts of our audience than with knowledge sharing. Cleveland H. "Information as Resource", The Futurist, December 1982 p. 34-39

8 “Often, the distinctions between data, information, knowledge, and wisdom continuum are not very discrete, thus the distinctions between each term often seem more like shades of gray, rather than black and white.” Shedroff, N. (2001). "An overview of understanding" in Information Anxiety 2 by Richard Saul Wurman. Indianapolis: Que.Information Anxiety 2

9 Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? - T.S. Eliot's The Rock (1934)

10 Interdisciplinary Research Cross-disciplinary analysis – examines an issue typically germane to one discipline through the lens of another discipline (i.e., how physicists explore music, sociological perspectives on the purpose of religion). Multi-disciplinary analysis – examines an issue from multiple perspectives, without making a concerted effort to systemically integrate disciplinary perspectives. Inter-disciplinary analysis – examines an issue from multiple perspectives, leading to a systematic effort to integrate the alternative perspectives into a unified or coherent framework of analysis.

11 Cross-disciplinary analysis Professor of Neurology Brain’s Elasticity Studied Production of Art -brain trauma

12 Multi-disciplinary analysis German Culture WW II

13 Inter-disciplinary analysis Sociobiology Animal behavior(including humans) is the product of heredity, environmental stimuli, and past experiences Human mind is shaped more by genetics than culture

14 Writing Across the Disciplines Read & discuss current theories related to writing in the disciplines work. Consider the rhetorical appropriateness of different genres to convey your ideas. Create a research project that applies what you’ve learned in this course to a rhetorical situation of your choice. COURSE OBJECTIVES

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

16 Library Home Page

17 21st Century Video Podcasts Audio Podcast Wikis Blog (Weblog) and Video Blog Post Forum or Discussion Board Posting E-mail Computer Software/Downloaded Software Nonperiodical Web Document or Report Online Lecture Notes and Presentation Slides Qualitative Data and Online Interviews Graphic Data (e.g. Interactive Maps and Other Graphic Representations of Data) Data Sets Bibliographies Annotated Bibliographies Encyclopedias and Dictionaries Dissertation/Thesis from a Database Book Reviews Chapter/Section of a Web Document or Online Book Chapter Kindle Books Electronic Books Newspaper Article Abstract Article from a Database Article From an Online Periodical with no DOI Assigned Article From an Online Periodical with DOI Assigned Online Scholarly Journal Article: Citing DOIs Article From an Online Periodical

18 Libraries Digital Collections –Articles begat Journals begat Databases begat Discovery Search Material Collections –Dewey/Shelves

19 Worldcat Found in the Database A-Z List Access multiple libraries Interlibrary Loan

20 Discovery EBSCO Interface –Use Advanced Source Types* –Reviews –Use Worldcat to locate books/videos Subjects* use example of teenage alcohol consumption

21 Approaches Discovery Subject Specific Database Read the Results/Citation

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23 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…

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

25 Citations 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."

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

27 References

28 Using the Open Web

29 GoogleGoogle: Improve Your Searches Site Specific Command What it does: searches only specific domains What to type: elvish language site:edu elvish language site:gov

30 Google Scholar Predatory Journals Unless you’re familiar with Research Methodology ( Cohort/Systematic Reviews i.e.) Cost

31 RefWorks

32 Specific Resources Worldcat – Books/Videos Ebrary – Digital Books JSTOR – Academic Journals/Subject Project Muse –Academic Journals Discovery – Search Interface PLOS –Public Library of Science (Open Web Source) Ted Talks – Video ( Open Web Source)

33 Simply Put Search Refine Discovery Recovery

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

35 outline Strategies/Sources/Organization Explain the layout of the Lib Page All the stuff we have/collections Focus on using Discovery to access Identifying formats/sources Using bibliographies Refworks

36 Thanks!

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