Task 1 - Finding Examples of References:
The first part of this week’s workshop required me to review the Edith Cowan University referencing guide.
And to find five examples of electronic data which I came up with the following:
BBC News. [n.d.] Retrieved May 22, 2008, from BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/
Cripps, H. (n.d,). UPC0004 lec04 081v3 Lecture Notes. Retrieved May 22, 2008,
from Edith Cowan University, Blackboard Academic Suite: http://myecu.ecu.edu.au/@@550ADAED359B64CAAB5ED3D4ABDB2F2 6/courses/1/UPC0004.2008.1.ALL/content/_743415_1/UPC0004%20lec04%20081v3.ppt
Engle, M. [1996]. Evaluating Web Sites: Criteria and Tools. Retrieved May 22, 2008,
from Cornell University Library: http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/webeval.html
Grassian, E. [2006]. Thinking Critically about World Wide Web Resources. May 22,
2008, from UCLA College Library: http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/help/critical/
Harris, R [2007]. Evaluating Internet Research Sources. May 22, 2008, from
VirtualSalt: http://www.virtualsalt.com/evalu8it.htm
Kirk, E. E. [1996]. Evaluating Information Found on the Internet. May 22, 2008,
from Sheridan Libraries: http://www.library.jhu.edu/researchhelp/general/evaluating
Meola, M. (2004). Chucking the Checklist: A Contextual Approach to Teaching
Undergraduates Web-Site Evaluation. Portal : Libraries and the Academy, 4(3), 331.
Task 2 - Endnotev11 Exercises for Vista:
Firstly I opened the Start Menu so I could Configure EndNote, I did this by typing the words ‘Configure Endnote’ in the Search bar it appeared and a new tab opened.
I chose the Configure EndNote option which took me to the next part of the setup asking me whether I wanted to Cite While You Write with Microsoft Word and use the program as a Default reference manager for MS Word which I selected both options.
The next tab allowed me to click Finish and start using the program.
I then looked at the next exercise for the Workshop which was Exercise 1.
I then went to EndNote and clicked the icon ‘New Reference’ which opened a new reference for me which I opened, changed the reference type to a book and then inserted the information that was given to me.
For Exercise 2, I was asked to go to a link on the ‘How Stuff Works’ website where I selected some text to add into the Notes section on EndNote.
I inserted the title, URL, current year so there would be some sort of reference, as there was not a lot of information to use.
Exercise 3 asked of me to go to the ECU library website and to the Journal Articles (Databases) to select a journal by title.
I found ProQuest 5000 International as this was the journal database that I had to use to find the reference.
I then typed ‘The New Arab Conversation’ in the first field and clicked the icon Search which took me to a list of results, I could not find the heading so I went to the second page and found it as the fifteenth title.
I clicked on the title to gain access to the article, there was a tab located at the top of this article that read My Research which I clicked.
I then was given more options which I selected Export Citations which lead me to another page where I chose Export directly to EndNote.
In EndNote I saved this reference to a library which I had created beforehand and selected the Electronic Article for the reference type. I then copied and pasted the quotes from the EndNote notes section into a Word document and created an in-text reference.
[...] though he probably would not have appreciated being deployed as a weapon in Israel's public-relations war, the presence of his independent voice, a counterintuitive opinion not filtered through any official source, said a lot about the power of Middle Eastern Web logs to expose a hidden trove of multiple perspectives in a world that the West often imagines as having only one perspective - that of the "Arab Street," a place of conformity, of mass acquiescence to singular passions, be they blind support for a dictator or seething hatred of Israel. Whether it is a Jordanian student discussing the taboo subject of the monarchy's viability or a Saudi woman writing about her sexual experiences or an Egyptian commenting with sadness at an Israeli blogger's description of a suicide bombing, each of these unprecedented acts is one small move toward opening up these societies.(Beckerman, 2007)
"Think about a "normal Web site." It usually has a home page, with links to lots of sub-pages that have more detail. HowStuffWorks is like this, with thousands of information pages all organized under a home page. A small business site follows the same format -- it might have a home page and five or 10 sub-pages. Most traditional Web sites follow this format. If the site is small, it is sort of like an online brochure. If it is large, it is like an electronic encyclopaedia."("How Blogs Work ", 2007)
“El Nino has clearly arrived on the world stage. But while it has belatedly achieved a widespread awareness, few people still understand what the phenomenon is all about”.(Couper-Johnston 2000)
Reference List:
Beckerman, G. (2007). THE NEW ARAB CONVERSATION [Electronic Version]. Columbia Journalism Review, 45, 17, from http://0-proquest.umi.com.library.ecu.edu.au/pqdweb?did=1199324601&Fmt=7&clientId=7582&RQT=309&VName=PQD
Brain, M. (2007). How blog works. How Stuff Works Retrieved 17/05/07, from http://computer.howstuffworks.com/blog.htm
Couper-Johnston , R. (2000). El Nino. London: Hodder and Stoughton.
How Blogs Work (2007). from: http://computer.howstuffworks.com/blog.htm
Task 3 - Cite while you write Endnote exercise:
The first reference I added to Endnote talked about the prominence of El Nino. The authors stated that, “El Nino has clearly arrived on the world stage. But while it has belatedly achieved a widespread awareness, few people still understand what the phenomenon is all about”.(Couper-Johnston 2000)
The second source I added to my library was from the ‘How Stuff Works’ website ("How Blogs Work ", 2007)and was mostly a description and introduction to blogging. Brain ("How Blogs Work ", 2007) describes the emergence of blogging as follows:
"Think about a "normal Web site." It usually has a home page, with links to lots of sub-pages that have more detail. HowStuffWorks is like this, with thousands of information pages all organized under a home page. A small business site follows the same format -- it might have a home page and five or 10 sub-pages. Most traditional Web sites follow this format. If the site is small, it is sort of like an online brochure. If it is large, it is like an electronic encyclopedia."
Finally I added a source to my library from an online journal which I accessed through the Library link on the ECU homepage.
The article described the new discourse in Middle Eastern politics which is developing through the use of blogs. Endnote even imported the following abstract into the reference.
[...] though he probably would not have appreciated being deployed as a weapon in Israel's public-relations war, the presence of his independent voice, a counterintuitive opinion not filtered through any official source, said a lot about the power of Middle Eastern Web logs to expose a hidden trove of multiple perspectives in a world that the West often imagines as having only one perspective - that of the "Arab Street," a place of conformity, of mass acquiescence to singular passions, be they blind support for a dictator or seething hatred of Israel. Whether it is a Jordanian student discussing the taboo subject of the monarchy's viability or a Saudi woman writing about her sexual experiences or an Egyptian commenting with sadness at an Israeli blogger's description of a suicide bombing, each of these unprecedented acts is one small move toward opening up these societies. (Beckerman, 2007)
When I had entered these references I used the in-text citation buttons on the endnote toolbar to add citations to this exercise. Endnote automatically generated a list of references
The only thing I need to do now is to remove the hyperlink marking on the electronic source reference before I print as the underlining is not a part of the ECU referencing standard. If I right click on the hyper link and choose remove hyperlink on the menu that appears, that should fix it!
References:
Beckerman, G. (2007). THE NEW ARAB CONVERSATION [Electronic Version]. Columbia Journalism Review, 45, 17, from http://0-proquest.umi.com.library.ecu.edu.au/pqdweb?did=1199324601&Fmt=7&clientId=7582&RQT=309&VName=PQD
Brain, M. (2007). How blog works. How Stuff Works Retrieved 17/05/07, from http://computer.howstuffworks.com/blog.htm
Couper-Johnston , R. (2000). El Nino. London: Hodder and Stoughton.
How Blogs Work (2007). from http://computer.howstuffworks.com/blog.htm
Lecture:
This week consisted of details of the EndNote program on how to use it and what its capabilities are. As it was a new subject and program to the class we did not have any questions this week that we had to answer. But before getting into the facts, the group assignment was spoken of briefly beforehand about what was required of us in a bit more description. EndNote is a database which can be used as a program on its own or with Microsoft Word. And the class was told a story by the lecturer that she knew someone that has hundreds of references on her thumb drive and lost it and therefore it is very wise to backup all your files.
Tutorial:
The tutorial supported what had been explained in the lecture but went into far more detail about EndNote. Our tutor went step-by-step in how to configure and use EndNote efficiently. Also explained, was the different parts of the program and that Microsoft Word and Excel saves the data in files whereas EndNote saves a library.
Readings for the Week:
EndNote - Technical Support & Services is a website that deals with helping EndNote users with information or any problems they may have with the software. But as the website title states it is a technical support section of the EndNote website, so it will mainly have help points to it. There is a section for: product downloads, news, help problems (system requirements and compatibility information), information pages and EndNote discussion forum.
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