Library and subject-based resources for your subject

As my self-study, today I had a look at the website that is recomennded by our textbook and contains that how to get the information relevant to our own subject area. The contents this website has would be probably mostly alredy known by university students, although some of them may be useful and practice and new tips for research and study in university. Here is some of them for visitors of my blog. I hope this is going to help your learning.

One of my intersting subjects is about companies that do social programmes for the environment with the aim at improving their impact on society. If I want to know about that kind of company in the UK, just go to the website of a group called "Business in the communities."

When you are looking for informaion for your research, it is supposed that you are perhas using just searching engines such as Gooogle or Yahoo. Plus, It is easily imagined that you can get information on everything but in most cases they give you too many results. If only one thing is done to avoid this situation, you would get more sophisticated results from that engines. That is to use the words "AND" or "OR" between the words which you are going to use to search for information.

Note that the Internet has not only reliable information but also dodgy information because any checks are not required to put information on it. So it is wise to be cautious when you use something from the Internet. On the other hand, books which are stored in the university library is reliable on the ground that they are checked at least three times; by authour, editor and librarian.

Plagiarism

As my self-study, I looked at the websites about plagiarism which is recommended by our text book.

If I can explain plagiarism in the simplest way, don't copy what others have wrote to use it in your assessment. I am going tell you something good below to know for your work, which was not familiar to me when I did the exercise on the web page so maybe for you too.

1. You will be given low mark in your assessment even if you plagiarise inadvertently.
2. It is not enough that you just change the word in the original sentence to your own word.

And finally, when you take a note from a book, you need to make a reference to show that you get information from other person's writing. In order to make the bibliography and avoid plagiarism, here is a list which you need to include in it.

Book:
Name of Author
Year of Publication
Title of book
Name of publisher
Place of publication
Page reference

Website:
Name of Author
HTTP address
Date page accessed


That is all new what I have learnt today. I hope that this is going to be helpful for you and me.

Trapped by son's DNA

Today we looked at a article from Metro which was related to Surveillance society as well as the study for modal verbs. Steve asked us to be one of the characters who appeared on the article and to write a paragraph about 'what happened and how you feel now.' So I have decided to pretend to be a murderer.

What happened when you murdered Vicky and how do you feel now?
The murder was completely carried out as planned. After I raped her only to satisfy my sexual desire, I killed her because she should not have been alive any more to keep it secret. I decided that it had to seem ilke a perfect crime, but there was the biggest mistake in my life that I left her purse by the front door which was close to my son's bed. It was when I was hiding her dead body in my garden. The purse on which my toddler's saliva was put might never have been forgotten. It could be said that I should have cared about his behaviour, though I could not imagine that the technology of DNA study would advance to this extent which we can use for solving criminals now.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6108496.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7690005.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4087380.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/25/technology/techspecial2/25essay.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=surveillance%20society&st=cse

1/Dec/08

Today for my self-study, I searched what I am going to study next semester, which is internship. I am planning to do internship for one of enterprise companies. As a preparation for this, I had a look at their web-page.

In the web-page, they offer a piece of information for their clients. According to this page, the company is a specialist business incubator and supports especially some kinds of business which are like information and communication technology, interactive media, e-learning and design.

The most important thing is that there is anything to do by myself for my internship. So I need to ask someone who is in charge of this programme something to do for this.


Thank you for your reading.

24/Nov/08 TED.com

Today for my self study I watched lecture on TED.com which is relevant to my subject 'business'. The lecturer was from Bangladesh and an advocate of humanitarian tool business. You can see the meaning of humanitarian tool business from my notes about the lecture below.

As you probably know, Bangladesh is one of the poorest countries. In the countries one five-hundredth has a mobile phone. One day when the lecturer was a child, he needed to get a medicine from a doctor for his mother without calling the doctor beforehand. Arriving at the hospital, there was not anyone and he waited for the doctor all the afternoon but the doctor did not appear. With this example, the lecturer wanted to explain about productivity. The more they have mobile phones, the less they tend to waste of time like that case above.

Well, why do not they have enough mobile phones?
That is because lack of the power to buy them in poor countries. The reason why they lack of the power is that they do not have infrastructures for mobile phones; no credit checks, a few bank branches to collect bills, a few contact points for customer services.

On the other hand, however, the impact of installing mobile phone system in less GNP countries is huger than in more GNP countries. Therefore it is seen by the lecturer as a valuable investment to spread mobile phone over the countries.

Self-study for the seminar about media

In order to prepare for the seminar about media, I have read following articles. And they also had a good to increase vocabulary and collocations for academic writings.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/feb/04/comment.pressandpublishing

to filter out falsehood
One of main purposes of media is to filter out falsehood.

a conduit for propaganda
Media have become a conduit for propaganda of the political party.

Fleet Street
Current Fleet Street are filling with three times as much editorial space as they were in 1985.

feral child bully
There is usually a feral child bully in a class of a primary school.

feel heresy
It feels heresy for strict Christians not to go to the church on Sundays

http://www.ppu.org.uk/education/media_violence_survey-c.html

be reinforced by media content
The trend of violent behavior among children is reinforced by media content.


be on the rise(increasing now)
People who want to live in urban areas are on the rise in Japan.


with the advent of something

Communication has become easier over the last ten years with the advent of mobile phones.