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Guideline on Copyright, Citation, and Plagiarism

  PART 1: RATING DOCUMENTATION OF SOURCES 1)          F       I rated this passage F because although the documentation looks correct, the source is used out of context or contrary to the meaning in the original text. 2)          D     This passage has documentation, but it is not used clearly or correctly. The sentence about George Washington should either be cited (clearly from a different source). Also, in the Works Cited section, “Civilization 3” should be italicized. 3)          B       Was the Notes on the State of Virginia a separate reference in the Works Cited section? If so, it is missing information to set it apart as such. The first sentence of this passage needs a citation, but it did not come from the Ellis paragraph, which means yet another source on the Works Cited section.   Ellis was noted in the Works Cited but not cited in-text.   I could also have gone with a C rating on this one. 4)            A      A few words may have been changed here or there in thi
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Evaluation of Information and Annotated Bibliographies

  PART 1: SCHOLARLY JOURNAL ARTICLE EVALUATION Article Citation in APA Style Short, K. R., Kedzierska, K., & van de Sandt, C. E., (2018). Back to the future: Lessons learned from the 1918 influenza pandemic. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 8 , Article 343. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2018.00343 Descriptive Annotation: In this article, the authors review the main causes of the severity of the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919. Specifically, they address how the virus attacked the human hosts, genetic factors that may have impacted the degree of fatality of the virus, and how the immune system in differing demographics was associated with mortality rate. The authors conclude their article with a discussion of how understanding past pandemics can help prepare the world for future pandemics. Evaluative Annotation: ·        The article was printed in 2018 and is quite up to date regarding current understanding of the epidemiology of the H1N1 virus that killed over 50
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Using Google Scholar

Google Scholar. Finally, something I am familiar with! Well, somewhat familiar. Again, I learned some incredible research tricks that I can put to excellent use in future research work. ·        Search phrase: Influenza epidemic of 1918-1919 ·        I added the words in the U.S. to limit my results. ·        I did not use any other limiters. ·        This search brought far more articles than I have been able to get through the databases I have previously searched. However, not all these articles are directly related to what I am looking for. If I am not careful, I could suffer from information overload. There is NO WAY I will look through 12,300 results! I did get an interesting book reference that I will see if our library carries, though. ·        Because I have been using Google Scholar for my class research assignments over the past two years, I found this method to be much easier than navigating the library databases. This is only because of familiarity, though. The m
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Citation Searching

  PART ONE 1. Allardt, E. 1993. “Having, Loving, Being: An Alternative to the Swedish Model of Welfare Research.” In Martha Nussbaum and Amartya Sen, eds., The Quality of Life , 88-94. Clarendon Press, Oxford. Type of item: This reference contains the word “in”, page numbers, publisher, and place of publication which indicates a book chapter.   Where I would search: I looked in the Search It catalog under the title of the book, The Quality of Life and found both an eBook and print book listed. How to get the item: Since we are not currently attending classes on campus, I would first see about getting a copy of the eBook. I would first click on online access and then the link next to ‘full text available at’ under access options. This will bring up an online copy of the book from Oxford Scholarship Online.   I would not need to read the entire book, as this references pages 88-94 in a specific chapter. This online version has links to open the book at whatever chapter I need
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Searching in Subject Specific Databases

  PART 1 ANTHROPOLOGY PLUS Contains scholarly articles in archaeology, biological and physical anthropology, cultural and social anthropology, religious studies, and linguistics. Brady, B. R., & Bahr, H. M., (2014). The influenza epidemic of 1918-1920 among the Navajos. American Indian Quarterly, 38 (4), 459-491. Retrieved from https://ntserver1.wsulibs.wsu.edu:2290/ehost/detail/detail?vid=3&sid=f984e525-a2c4-46ce-a5fc-8788c86e28ba%40sessionmgr103&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#AN=637247&db=ant PSYCINFO Contains scholarly articles related to education, psychiatry, business, medicine, linguistics, nursing, law, and social work. Yudofsky, S. C., (2009). Contracting schizophrenia: Lessons from the influenza epidemic of 1918-1919. Journal of the American Medical Association, 301 (3), 324-326. Retrieved from https://ntserver1.wsulibs.wsu.edu:2152/psycinfo/docview/621800503/AD52A541E1F84FEDPQ/1?accountid=14902 PUBMED (MEDLINE) Contains scholarly articles
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Searching a Multidisciplinary Database

PART 1 Why was the Influenza Epidemic of 1918-1919 (H1N1) more deadly than other influenza outbreaks, and how did the U.S. respond to treat those infected and (reduce or prevent) spread of the disease? PART 2 A.       Main Concepts a.        Influenza Epidemic of 1918-1919 causes of mortality b.        U.S. treatment of c.        U.S. measures to prevent spread of B.       Search Statement a.        “influenza epidemic 1918-1919” AND United States C.        Do a Search a.        I looked up the search statement listed above. In the main line I listed “influenza epidemic 1918-1919”; in the next line I used the Boolean operator AND then entered the words United States. (I was given 183 results, some of which look rather interesting!) D.       Database limiters   a.        English b.        Abstracts These narrowed my search results significantly—from 183 to 3!   PART 3   First, I discovered that I am a very wordy person (which didn’t come as a surpris
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Searching: The Words You Use--Subject Terms and Boolean Operators

Part 1: Looking up subject terms The first search term I entered into Academic Search Complete was Influenza epidemic 1918-1919. This search term brought up a nice list of possible subject terms after stating: “ The term(s) you entered could not be found. The list below is in alphabetical order. ” INFLUENZA Epidemic, 1918-1919 INFLUENZA Epidemic, 1918-1919—in literature Use INFLUENZA Epidemic, 1918-1919, in literature  INFLUENZA Epidemic, 1918-1919, in literature  INFLUENZA epidemiology   There are then possible subject terms related to influenza in birds and animals among several pages of other possible terms. Additional terms of interest to me included:   INFLUENZA Pandemic, 1918-1919 Use INFLUENZA Epidemic 1918-1919   The second search term I decided to enter was H1N1 Virus which brought up:   H1N1 virus Use INFLUENZA A virus, H1N1 subtype   I clicked on that just to see what details would come up and was delighted to discover great advice in the s
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