Module 6 Reflection

Module six of our class is focused on online learning strategies and skills.  The module focuses mainly on academic papers, and the research involved in writing them.  There are also important slides on source credibility, and search basics and strategies.

The slide on academic papers provides resources that will help with writing academic papers and research papers. It also provides a link to a database with opposing viewpoints to include in your paper to improve your papers credibility.

Source credibility is defined to be made up of three aspects.  These are: reliability, quality, and utility.  A source that is reliable contains such things as the contact info of the author, the credentials of the author, a reputable publisher, and has been peer-reviewed.  For an article to have high quality, it has to be up to date, consistent, well written, unbiased, and provide citations.  Finally, a source provides utility to the reader if it is: related to their topic, written to the appropriate audience, and has enough detail.

There are three major ways the search engines search.  The first way is a keyword search, which is what google uses.  The next is a category search, which is what yahoo uses.  The third is a metasearch, which compiles from many sources.  The module then shows effective ways to go about searching such as boolean logic.

 

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