Making use of online resourse for research
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The document provides guidance on evaluating online resources for research. It discusses the diversity of online information and need to screen sources based on authority, affiliation, audience level, currency, content, and validity. Specific tips are offered for evaluating each criterion, such as checking an author's qualifications, whether information is factual versus opinion, and signs of carelessness. A variety of subject directories, databases, and journals are also listed as reliable sources for research in languages, literature, and related fields.
Making use of online resourse for research
- 1. Making use of Online Resources for Research
- 2. Types of Research Resources
- 4. Caution - It must be used carefully and critically ‘as anything goes on internet’ without screening or peer review - No agreed upon standard ways of identifying subjects or for cross references
- 5. The Diversity of Information Information is a Commodity Available in Many Flavors: Information Exists on a Continuum of Reliability and Quality Are you looking for: Facts, opinions, stories, interpretations, statistics?
- 6. Purposes • Inform • Persuade • Sell • to present a viewpoint to create or change an attitude or belief
- 7. Dos and Don’ts • Don't rely exclusively on Net resources • Narrow your research topic before logging on • Know your subject directories and search engines • Keep a detailed record of sites you visit and the sites you use • Double-check all URLs that you put in your paper
- 8. Guidelines for evaluating specific resources
- 9. Look for: • Authority • Affiliation • Audience Level • Currency • Content • Validity
- 10. Authority –Who is the author? –Is the author's name given? –Are her/his qualifications specified? –Is there a link to information about her/his and her/his position? –Is there a way to contact her/his (an address or a "Mailto" link)? –Have you heard of her/him elsewhere (in class, or cited in your course text or in Library material)? –Has the author written elsewhere on this topic?
- 11. Affiliation - Who is the sponsor of the Web site? - Is the author affiliated with a reputable institution or organization? - Does the information reflect the views of the organization, or only of the author? If the sponsoring institution or organization is not clearly identified on the site, check the URL.
- 12. Affiliation - It may contain the name of a university or the extension .edu, which is used by many educational institutions. - Government sites are identified by the extension .gov. - URLs containing .org are trickier, and require research: these are sites sponsored by non-profit organizations, some of which are reliable sources and some of which are very biased. - Sites with the .com extension should also be used with caution, because they have commercial or corporate sponsors who probably want to sell you something. - The extension ~NAME often means a personal Web page with no institutional backing; use such sites only if you have checked on the author's credibility in print sources.
- 13. Audience Level -What audience is the Web site designed for? -- You want information at the college or research level. ---Don't use sites intended for elementary students or sites that are too technical for your needs.
- 14. Currency - Is the Web site current? - Is the site dated? -Is the date of the most recent update given? - Generally speaking, Internet resources should be up-to-date; after all, getting the most current information is the main reason for using the Net for research in the first place. - Are all the links up-to-date and working? Broken links may mean the site is out-of-date; they're certainly a sign that it's not well-maintained.
- 15. Content Reliability/Accuracy - Is the material on the Web site reliable and accurate? - Is the information factual, not opinion? - Can you verify the information in print sources? - Is the source of the information clearly stated, whether original research material or secondary material borrowed from elsewhere?
- 16. Content Reliability/Accuracy - How valid is the research that is the source? - Does the material as presented have substance and depth? - Where arguments are given, are they based on strong evidence and good logic? - Is the author's point of view impartial and objective? - Is the author's language free of emotion and bias? - Is the site free of errors in spelling or grammar and other signs of carelessness in its presentation of the material? - Are additional electronic and print sources provided to complement or support the material on the Web site?
- 18. Do you want - Facts Opinions Reasoned arguments Statistics Narratives Eyewitness reports Descriptions Pre-evaluation
- 19. Solution: Select Sources Likely to be Reliable • INFOMINE • Academic Info • Google • Bing • Alta Vista • Yahoo • Search Engine Colossus International Directory of Search Engines
- 20. E-DATABASE OF LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE • Texts, Articles, Books • http://www.4shared.com/ • http://www.planetpdf.com/ • http://pdfoxy.com/tags-386-british-literature-page- 1.html • http://www.manualpdf.com/tttt.php?cx=01118802 4975551655091%3Agptyq7r9kw0&cof=FORID%3A1 1&pCHK=done&q=feminist+theory+filetype%3Apdf #1152
- 22. Literature • http://modernism.research.yale.edu/digital_archive.ph p • http://home.infionline.net/~ddisse/index.html • http://www.eliteskills.com/analysis_poetry/Ode_On_A _Grecian_Urn_by_John_Keats_analysis.php • http://www.archive.org/stream/heartofmusicstor00cha prich/heartofmusicstor00chaprich_djvu.txt • http://www.online- literature.com/tolstoy/anna_karenina/2/ • http://hypo.ge-dip.etat- ge.ch/athena/html/author_t.html • http://www.hwwilson.com/databases/humani.htm • http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/
- 23. Literary theory • http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/virtualit/poetry/cr itical_define/crit_newhist.html • http://www.genders.org/ • http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/ • http://www.vitalpoetics.com/ • http://www.articlemyriad.com/ulysses_joyce_time. htm
- 26. Language • http://www.ling- phil.ox.ac.uk/pages/faqs.htmlhttp://vlc.polyu.edu.h k/academicwriter/menus/framesEssays.htm • http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/blog0608.h tm • http://sail.usc.edu/publications.php • http://www.detailenglish.com/index.php?page=for um&op=viewThread&id=127&title=Gerunds-and- Gerund-Phrases • http://www.miguelmllop.com/practice/intermediat e/readingcomprehension/readingcompindex.htm
- 34. Journals • http://www.elanguage.net/journals/index.php/lilt/i ssue/view/28 • http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/french/as- sa/square.html • http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/africanjournals/i ndex.cfm • http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/ci/34/s2?co okieSet=1 • http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/
- 38. • http://www.eupjournals.com/journal/para • http://pedagogy.dukejournals.org/content/vol 3/issue2/pdf_extracts/293.jpeg • http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/jour nal_of_womens_history/v011/11.3shaffer.pdf • http://muse.jhu.edu/about/muse/publishers/ hopkins/ • http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/rfl/October2008/ • http://www.hull.ac.uk/renforum/ • http://www.eupjournals.com/journal/rom • http://www.nypl.org/branch/central/mml/ll/S hakespeare.htm
- 41. Theses and Dissertations • http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.4 2/39366/browse?type=subject&order=ASC&r pp=20&starts_with=lang • http://ora.ouls.ox.ac.uk/browse • http://ora.ouls.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid%3A8d2 76ce5-1ff9-41eb-baa3-14b15185d663 • http://www.ota.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/index- id.html
- 46. Indian Thought System • http://www.swami- krishnananda.org/hist/hist_3.html • http://www.bhagavad-gita.org/Gita/verse-14- 24.html • http://www.bhashaindia.com/Patrons/LanguageTec h/Sanskrit.aspx • http://www.hinduism.co.za/bhishma.htm • http://www.indianetzone.com/3/bhishma.htm • http://www.experiencefestival.com/a/Pashyanti/id/ 202245
- 50. Dictionaries • Gujarati-English • http://www.gujaratilexicon.com/index.php?action= downloads • Sanskrit-English • http://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni- koeln.de/download.html
- 51. Acknowledgement • http://www.writing.utoronto.ca/advice/reading- and- http://www.virtualsalt.com/evalu8it.htm Dr. Sunil Sagar for his compilation of online resources
- 53. Compiled and Prepared by Dr. Nila Shah Shri Jasani Arts and Commerce College, Rajkot contact: email: solarm_india@yahoo.co.in