Wednesday, 12 December 2012

INFORMATION LITERACY ( Seventh Week Reflection)

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                    "SEVENTH WEEK 
                   REFLECTION"
 
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“Tell me, and I will forget. Show me, and I may remember. Involve me, and I will understand”                                                         

     Week six has finished and we started with week 7. To be honest, week 7 for me was an interesting week. During week 7 when I entered to class I was feeling very happy and exhilarated. When the lecturer came into the class we welcomed her and we said Good Morning to her. The lecturer started to great us. After greeting, she started to ask some questions about our previous lesson that whether, we understood or no. Some of the students answered all the questions and some of them had some problems. Furthermore, we started with week 7session 1. During week 7 we studied CITATION & DOCUMENTING INFORMATION SOURCES. First of all we studied that what APA Style is and Why Use It? APA is an American Psychological Association. The APA (American Psychological Association) style has been established in 1928 by Social Science professionals. The Style provides guidelines for publication in Social Science Journals (such as Psychology, Sociology, Education, and Nursing). Furthermore, The Style lends consistency and makes texts more readable by those who assess or publish them.


    Moreover, we studied Documenting Authors. By learning this lesson will help us when we do APA report. When we do APA report we have to know the citation for one author, two authors, three authors, four authors and so no. after that, we have studied Rules for the Title. Below are the rules for the Title.


  • ·         Capitalize only the first alphabet word or name in the Title and subtitle.
  • ·         Capitalize each alphabet in each word in the Title of journal except for preposition.
  • ·         Underline, bold or italic the Title and the Title of Journal. 



    Next, the lecturer taught us on how to do Citation for book with one, two, three and six author, Corporate Bodies as Authors, More than First Edition, Edited Books, Chapter From Books, Journal Article, Newspaper Article, Published Conference Paper, Unpublished Conference Paper, Thesis / Dissertation, Journal Article Through Internet, Journal Article Using Database and lastly On CD-ROM. After that, we had an activity it was like a kind of assessment. The lecturer wrote some example on the board and she said that I will call upon a name he/she will come and will do the citation for this example. The activity was very useful and we learned some practical examples of Citation.
    Last but not list, on the last day of week 7 we had a lab session. Again the lecturer taught us about citation. After all, we got an assignment the assignment is about APA report which carries 10% of the marks.
    Overall, it was an interesting week and I have learned and gained a lot of new things which I have not known before, APA citation not only helps me in my foundation studies It can  also help me in my UGP (under graduate studies). To be honest, I was immensely interested in this lesson and I am looking forward to learn more about this topic.


Sincerely,
Said Abid s/o Said Tahir
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