Transcript Beyond Google: Easy, effective, efficient, elegant

“Beyond Google:
Easy, effective, efficient, elegant
Internet searching”
What I hope we accomplish today or
Myra Michele’s personal ground rules …
I promise not to read this powerpoint to you;
I hope this information will be of interest to you
and that you will have questions or
comments;
I hope we have a conversation about research,
about using the Internet for research and
about the complications of online research,
including plagiarism, cheating and violating
intellectual property.
First group of slides – free Internet info
This is a group of first generation websites
from a variety of U.S. research
organizations. Most of the websites offer
free, weekly electronic updates to
subscribers. Web 1.0 websites are
controlled and uploaded by the owner of
the site. There may or may not be
interactive elements on these websites.
Tiger Woods
professional golfer, lifelong student
Colorado State University online writing center
http://wwwold.ccc.commnet.edu/writing/writing.htm
This website is comprehensive, including
links to many other helpful websites
with information on writing. Most of
the websites are maintained by U.S.
universities. However, there are links
to Canadian and Australian websites.
Indiana University Writing Tutorial Services
http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets.shtml
The Writing Tutorial Services offer the following pamphlets. Each
pamphlet deals with a specific writing situation. The pamphlets
are available in html and pdf versions.
(To read the pdf versions, you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader.)
“Citing Sources in MLA Style”
“Citing Sources in APA Style”
“How to Use Evidence”
“How To Write a Thesis Statement”
“Paragraphs and Topic Sentences”
“Personal Statements and Application Letters”
Indiana University Writing Tutorial Services
http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets.shtml
other Indiana U. Writing Tutorial Services pamphlets:
“Plagiarism: What It Is and How To Avoid It”
“Proofreading for Common Surface Errors”
“Proofreading for Spelling Errors”
“Taking an Essay Exam”
“Using Outlines”
“Writing Book Reviews”
“Writing Resumes and Cover Letters”
Steve Jobs
Co-founder, CEO of Apple Computers
University of Maryland University College Europe
http://www.ed.umuc.edu/staff/faculty/fll/StuLibWeb.html
The University of Maryland’s main campus is in
College Park, Maryland. This website has
many links to useful online resources.
Because U/MD is an American university, the
sources tend to be U.S. universities.
However, the information on research, citing
and plagiarism is good.
Birkbeck, University of London
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/ce/inteuro/forstudents/plagiarism.shtml#top
This is a U.K. university website. It covers
various aspects of writing, including citing
sources using the Harvard system of
referencing. IN the U.S., students primarily
use either MLA format (for humanities’
projects) and APA format (for social science
projects) for citations.
Purdue University, Indiana (U.S.)
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/01/
I used this website often when I worked at
Texas Tech University. It’s a good website
with lots of information writing term papers
and theses. There’s even a link for students
for whom English is not their native
language.
ESL Resources for Students
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/eslstudent.html
Larry Page, Sergey Brin & Dr. Eric Schmidt
Google’s two co-founders and its CEO
Non-profit organizations and commercial websites
The following slides offer brief
descriptions of non-profit organizations
and one commercial vendor, Gallup,
that provide good, current, mostly free
information about the U.S., press, U.S.
government and emerging trends in
American society.
American Enterprise Institute
http://www.aei.org/
“The American Enterprise Institute for
Public Policy Research is a private,
nonpartisan, not-for-profit institution
dedicated to research and education
on issues of government, politics,
economics, and social welfare.
Founded in 1943, AEI is home to some of
America's most accomplished public policy
experts--from economics, law, political
science, defense and foreign policy studies,
ethics, theology, medicine, and other fields.
The Brookings Institution is a private nonprofit
organization devoted to independent
research and innovative policy solutions. For
more than 90 years, Brookings has analyzed
current and emerging issues and produced
new ideas that matter—for the nation and
the world.
http://www.brookings.edu
Congressional Quarterly Researcher
http://www.cqpress.com/lib/electronic-products.html
Congressional Quarterly Researcher is part of
the CQ Electronic Library. In order to
access CQ Researcher, use the URL at the
top of this slide to sign up. CQ publications
offer comprehensive information on the
U.S. Congress, the U.S. Supreme Court and
on how the American national government
works.
The Gallup Organization
http://www.gallup.com
Gallup is well known for conducting polls
and other studies of human behavior.
Gallup’s polls are not free; however,
abstracts are free of charge.
PewResearch.org
http://www.PewResearch.org
“The Center's purpose is to serve as a
forum for ideas on the media and public
policy through public opinion research. In
this role it serves as an important
information resource for political leaders,
journalists, scholars, and public interest
organizations. All of our current survey
results are made available free of charge.”
“The research program includes five principal areas of investigation:
 The People & The Press - explores public attitudes about the
credibility, social value and salience of the news media.
 The People, The Press & Politics - features a typology which
divides the American electorate into distinct voting groups and
identifies the basic values and attitudes that animate political
behavior.
 The News Interest Index - measures on a regular basis how
closely the public follows the major news stories and links this to
views about politics and policy issues.
 America's Place in the World - a series of in-depth surveys and
analyses of the public and opinion leaders on international policy in
the post-Cold War era.
 Media Use - major surveys that measure the public's use of, and
attitudes toward, the Internet and traditional news outlets.”
Rand Corporation
http://www.rand.org
“RAND Mission: The RAND Corporation is a nonprofit
institution that helps improve policy and
decisionmaking through research and analysis.
For nearly 60 years, decisionmakers in the public and
private sectors have turned to the RAND Corporation
for objective analysis and effective solutions that
address the challenges facing the nation and the world.
These challenges include such critical social and
economic issues as education, poverty, crime, and the
environment, as well as a range of national security
issues.”
Majora Carter
Environmentalist, recipient of MacArthur Foundation “genius” award
A discussion of plagiarism
According to Oxford English Dictionary, the Holy Grail
for English speaking librarians, plagiarize (verb)
take (the work or idea of someone else) and
pass it off as one’s own.
Derivatives: plagiarism noun plagiarist noun plagiarizer noun.
Origin/etymology: from Latin plagiarius ‘kidnapper’, from Greek
plagion ‘a kidnapping’.
Dan Brown
author of “The DaVinci Code
16 January 2007 London Times headline:
“The DaVinci Code” copyright case goes to
appeal.”
Mr. Michael Baigent and Mr. Richard Leigh
argue that that Mr. Dan Brown copied
significant parts of his novel from their 1982
book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail.
Plagiarism
Plagiarism – what exactly is plagiarism besides
a funny sounding, oddly spelled English
word?
Plagiarism is using others’ ideas and
words without clearly
acknowledging the source of that
information.
http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/plagiarism.shtml
Jayson Blair, former New York Times reporter
who was forced to resign from the newspaper in May 2003, after he was caught
plagiarizing and fabricating elements of his stories
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayson_Blair
How to avoid plagiarizing
Plagiarism is using others’ ideas and words without clearly
acknowledging the source of that information.
http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/plagiarism.shtml
I did not write that definition. But on this and on the
preceding slide, I listed the URL for the University of
Indiana website where I found that definition. I did
not plagiarize. I gave the author(s) credit for their
quote. It’s very simple to avoid plagiarizing –
identify words, ideas, thoughts you use that are not
yours.
Ann Coulter
American author and social commentator; accused of plagiarism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism
Reasons for plagiarism …
“Research-based writing in American
institutions, both educational and corporate,
is filled with rules that writers, particularly
beginners, aren't aware of or don't know how
to follow.”
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/01/
Translation: you did not know you needed say
the words or ideas you put in your paper
weren’t all yours. Okay. Now you know …
Ben Domenech
American blogger who apologized and resigned from the Washington Post after
allegations of plagiarism while a student at The College of William & Mary
Plagiarism that made headlines …
Kaavya Viswanathan's first novel How Opal Mehta Got
Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life is reported to contain
plagiarized passages from at least five other novels.
All editions of the book were subsequently
withdrawn, her publishing deal with Little, Brown
and Co. was rescinded, and a film deal with
Dreamworks SKG was cancelled.
Ms Viswanathan was initially accused of plagiarizing
two of Megan McCafferty’s books.
Kaaya Viswanathan
Ms Viswanathan admitted through her published that she “accidentally” borrowed some passages
from Ms MaCafferty’s novels
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaavya_Viswanathan
Excerpts from the two writers’ novels:
McCafferty's book page 7:
"Bridget is my age and lives across the street. For the first twelve
years of my life, these qualifications were all I needed in a best
friend. But that was before Bridget's braces came off and her
boyfriend Burke got on, before Hope and I met in our seventh
grade Honors classes."
Viswanathan's novel page 14:
"Priscilla was my age and lived two blocks away. For the first fifteen
years of my life, those were the only qualifications I needed in a
best friend. We had bonded over our mutual fascination with the
abacus in a playgroup for gifted kids. But that was before
freshman year, when Priscilla's glasses came off, and the first in a
long string of boyfriends got on."
Megan McCafferty
author of “Sloppy Firsts; Second Helpings; Charmed Thirds”
Intellectual property (IP)
The term intellectual property reflects the idea that this subject
matter is the product of the mind or the intellect, though the
term is a matter of some controversy.
Intellectual property laws differ globally. Talks about IP are always
going on, especially between the U.S., the UK and countries like
the Peoples’ Republic of China and India.
“The United States and the United Kingdom are the only two nations who
consistently receive net balance of payment benefits from intellectual
property, and are amongst the chief supporters of intellectual property
systems.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property
Types of intellectual property (IP)
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Copyright
Geographical indication
Industrial design rights
IP cores used in electronic design
Moral rights
Patent
Personality rights
Plant breeders' rights
Plant variety protection
Trade dress
Trademark
Trade secret
Traditional knowledge
Domain Name
Vladimir Putin and Dr. Martin Luther King
allegations that both men plagiarized portions of their doctoral theses
… but there’s SO much free information out there in
cyberspace
Yes there is SO much free information. At the
risk of frightening you or making some of
you feel guilty, do you want to be the patient
of a doctor or surgeon who “borrowed”
someone else’s research rather than put in
the time to do his or her own work? This
applies to your car (the engineer), your
home (architect, builder) – every aspect of
our lives is interdependent.
Interdependency
(continued)
Now that you know, now that I’ve told you
what plagiarism is, I need to tell you it is
cheating. When you use information that
belongs to another in an assignment or on
an exam, you are saying “those are my
ideas, my words, my thoughts.” Which is not
true.
I’ll tell you a quick story about my last job and
a “campus conversation on ethics.”
Janet Cooke
wrote a false story about a heroin addicted 8 year old boy; also lied about her educational
background and work experience. The Washington Post was forced to return the Pulitzer Prize
she won for the story.
Domande?
Myra Michele Brown
U.S. Embassy Rome
Information Resources Officer (IRO)
(IRO for Italy, Portugal, Spain, Malta,
Macedonia, Greece and Cyprus)
[email protected]
06-4674-2379