DUE Easter (4-20-2014)

1.      For paragraph one, I would grade it as a 10/10 because I didn’t find anything wrong with it.

2.      For paragraph two, I would grade it as a 4/10 because there was plagiarism in the assignment. He did not cite a quote from a later idea.

3.      For paragraph three, I would grade it as an 8/10 because of improper citation. They cited the original text but didn’t cite it in the text.

4.      For paragraph four, I would grade it as a 0/10 because there is no citation but there are ideas from the original text and direct quotes.

5.      For paragraph five, I would grade it as a 5/10 because it reads like a summary. The only time that it actually shows that it isn’t a summary is the last few sentences. The citations were correct and everything was cited that should have been cited.

 

 

I have realized that it is easy to plagiarize if you are not careful. It can seem like your own idea but it may not be. It is always a good idea to go through your paper then your sources. This is what I have realized doing this assignment.

NINE

MY ANSWERS ARE BOLD, ITALICIZED, AND UNDERLINED. I ALSO TRIED TO MAKE SURE THAT I PUT EVERYTHING IN TIMES NEW ROMAN

 

Week Nine Assignment

Part One:

 

This will be your opportunity to practice searching for items from a reference list in the library resources. Please ONLY use the processes you learned in the lesson and NOT the web. I trust you know how to find things on the web. I want you to learn/practice how to do it via the library. The goal is to practice reading citations and using the finding tools.

 

Look at each citation from the list below.

Tell me:

      a. The type of item (book, article, website, book chapter, etc.) based on the citation.

      b. Then select where you would go first to search for the item.

      c. Next, search for the item. What do you need to do to get the item?

o   For books- do we have the book at the Vancouver campus, do we need to request it from Pullman or do we need to get it from one of the Summit libraries?

o   For articles- Please tell me if WSU has an electronic subscription and whether it is available full text online. Do you need to request through ILLiadn   (interlibrary loan)?

o   If it is a website—have you searched the open web and found the item with the URL? Only use the open web for websites. Do not use it for other sources.

 

	Example: Sue F. Phelps (2013): Designing the Information Literacy Competency Standards for Nursing, Medical Reference Services Quarterly, 32:1, 111-118. ·         This is an article in a journal ·         I will look in Search It,  limited to Vancouver,  to see if WSU owns the item. ·         WSU does not have this item electronically. I will need to request it through ILLiad.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. Anderson, T.D. (2006), “Uncertainty in action: observing information seeking within the creative processes of scholarly research”, Information Research, Vol. 12 No. 1, available at: http://InformationR.net/ir/12-1/paper283.html (accessed 24 December 2006).

 

This is a website. For this website I would go to the URL that is provided in order to view it. It is free for anyone to view, you do not need anything.

 

2. Belkin, N.J. (1980), “Anomalous states of knowledge as a basis for information retrieval”,

Canadian Journal of Information Science, Vol. 5, pp. 133-43.

 

This is a periodical based on the citation. I would use Search it to find it. After looking on Search It and limiting it to Vancouver, WSUV does not own the journal. I could not find it.

 

3. Bilal, D. (2000), “Children’s use of the Yahooligans! Web search engine: I. Cognitive, physical and affective behaviors on fact-based search tasks”, ĵ, Vol. 5 No. 7, pp. 646-65.

 

This is a periodical based on the citation. I used search it to find it and found that WSU does own the periodical. It is available to view as a PDF all you need to do is know your login if you’re not on a school computer.

 

4. Case, D. (2007), Looking for Information: A Survey of Research on Information Seeking, Needs

and Behavior, 2nd ed., Academic Press, Amsterdam.

 

This is a book based on the citation. In order to get it you will need to use Illiad. WSU does not own the book.

 

5. Chowdhury, G.G. (2004), “Access and usability issues of scholarly electronic publications”,

In Gorman, G.E. and Rowland, F. (Eds), Scholarly Publishing in an Electronic Era. International

Yearbook of Library and Information Management, 2004/2005, Facet Publishing, London,

pp. 77-98.

This is a book chapter. It is not owned by WSU. In order to get it you will need an Illiad account and request the item.

 

(These citations are taken from the reference list of:  Chowdhury, S. & Gibb, F. (2009) “Relationship among activities and problems causing uncertainty in information seeking and retrieval”, Journal of Documentation, Vol. 65 No. 3. pp. 470-499.)

 

 

Part Two:

 

·         Now look at the reference list of one of the articles that you saved or printed from last week’s assignment. Identify two different types of items in the reference list.

·         Tell me the citation for each item.

·         Tell me what type of item is described in the citation.

·         Search for the item in the WSU resources and tell me what you would have to do to get the full text of that item. (Is it available full text in a database, do you have to request it through ILLiad or is it a book you need to request?

 

I chose the Article “Atrial Fibrillation” by Natig Gassanov, et.al. for source 1.

I chose the article “Cardioversion for Atrial Fibrillation: Treatment Options and Advances” for source two.

Both of these sources either referenced just one type of publication.

 

Source 1:

W. B. Kannel, P. A. Wolf, E. J. Benjamin, and D. Levy, “Prevalence, incidence, prognosis, and predisposing conditions for atrial fibrillation: population-based estimates,” American JournalofCardiology,vol.82,pp.2N–9N,1998.

 

This is a periodical.  When searching for the item it comes up as an article. It is available online as full text in Elsevier ScienceDirect Complete.

 

Source 2:

Dubin D: Rapid interpretation of EKGs, ed 5, Tamoa 1996, Cover publishings.

 

This is  a book. And it is available through Illiad.

 

Part Three:

 

Use Ulrich’s Periodical’s Directory to evaluate any periodical title. Tell me:

·         The name of the periodical

·         The content type

·         Whether the periodical is peer reviewed

·         What database you can use to search for more information from that journal

 

TITLE: Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine

CONTENT: Academic/Scholarly

Peer-Reviewed: Yes

Database: could use PedMED to find more articles like this.

 

Part Four:

 

Please reflect on this week’s activities and write a paragraph in your research journal to summarize what you learned and what you think about your experience this week.

 

This was easy. I learned that there is a website that tells you more information than Ebscohost. I had never known anything about Ulrich’s Periodical’s Directory. It would have been amazing if I had learned about it before. It is an amazing resource. I like that it tells you more indepth the basics of an article than EbscoHost. I also learned how to spot a periodical from a book. I had never known how until this assignment.

 

 

DUE APRIL 6, 2014

I used the MLA citation format for this assignment because as far as I could tell most of the authors used MLA format for their citations.

Bibliography

"Atrial Fibrillation." Nursing Standard 28(27) (2014): 18. Article. 5 April 2014.

Boateng, Stephen. "Tachycardia." Disease-a-Month 59.3 (2013): 74(9). Peer Reviewed Article. 5 April 2014.

Brembilla-Perrot, Beatrice, et al. "Is Ablation of Atrial Flutter Always Safe?" Oacing and Clinical Electophysiology 9 (2012): 1061-1066. Article. 5 April 2014.

Chernecky, Cynthia, et al. Saunders Nursing Survival Guide: ECGs & the Heart. Second Edition. St. Louis: Saunders Elsevier, 2006. 148-229. Chapters. 5 April 2013.

Gassanov, Natig, et al. "Atrial Fibrillation." Cardiology Research and Practice (2013): 1-2. Article. 5 April 2014.

Hoffmayer, K S and N Goldschlager. "Bradycardia?" Journal fo Electrocardiology 43.3 (2010): 333-335. Peer Reviewd Article. 5 April 2014.

Pabon, Guillermo Mora and John A Ramirez. "Atrial Flutter a manifestation of Cardiac Tamponade." Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology 35.4 (2012): e87-e89. Peer reviewed Article. 5 April 2014.

Reiffel, James. "Cardioversion for Atrial Fibrillation: Treatment Options and Advances." Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology 32.8 (2009): 1073-1084. Peer Reviewed Research Article. 5 April 2014.

 

I used the database for searchit for “Bradycardia?”.

This article talks about how bradycardias are slow irregular heart rates and how they can be harmful. A bradycardia is a wide net to capture all of the heart irregularities that cause the heart to have a slow rate. This bradycardias are specific slow dysrhythmias.

For Cardioversion for Atrial Fibrillation I used PedMed.

“Cardioversion for Atrial Fibrillation” talks about a treatment of AFib and some of the side effects. It also goes over how there are some other treatment options. It also explains what Atrial Fibrillation is about.

For “Is Ablation for Atrial Flutter Always Safe?” I used Cinahl.

This is about how Atrial Flutters are sometimes treated with Ablations. It is a little unclear about what an ablation is if you have no experience with ablations. It is best suited for people who have a little bit of nursing or cardiac knowledge. It also explains what this dysrhythmia is and how it can affect people, giving them symptoms or no symptoms.

 

PART TWO:

I found it a little hard to do this assignment this week. I was more interested in reading the articles than writing about them. I as I was reading I spent time writing down quotes that I may use in the paper. I found it best to work at the school to do this because I have a younger child in my house who was on spring break this week, had the child’s friend at my house most of the week, and had my birthday this week so I was preparing for family to come. I believe that I did my best on this assignment. I spent seven hours doing it while I was at school until 1 everyday. I wish I could have done more but I have an hour commute. I found it a little easier to do the research as rather than focusing on dysrhythmias as a blanket I did searches for some of the dysrhythmia “umbrellas” I found. For example, I used “atrial fibrillation,” “Atrial Flutter,” “Bradycardia,” and “Tachycardia.” Using these terms I found it much easier to do the research because I wasn’t looking at as much in a short amount of time. I plan on getting the next assignment started and working on it at least two hours a day so I can be more thorough and begin to write the paper to a degree. I enjoyed the feeling of knowing that I can narrow it temporary in order to do research.

I used the MLA citation format for this assignment.

Bibliography

"Atrial Fibrillation." Nursing Standard 28(27) (2014): 18. Article. 5 April 2014.

Boateng, Stephen. "Tachycardia." Disease-a-Month 59.3 (2013): 74(9). Peer Reviewed Article. 5 April 2014.

Brembilla-Perrot, Beatrice, et al. "Is Ablation of Atrial Flutter Always Safe?" Oacing and Clinical Electophysiology 9 (2012): 1061-1066. Article. 5 April 2014.

Chernecky, Cynthia, et al. Saunders Nursing Survival Guide: ECGs & the Heart. Second Edition. St. Louis: Saunders Elsevier, 2006. 148-229. Chapters. 5 April 2013.

Gassanov, Natig, et al. "Atrial Fibrillation." Cardiology Research and Practice (2013): 1-2. Article. 5 April 2014.

Hoffmayer, K S and N Goldschlager. "Bradycardia?" Journal fo Electrocardiology 43.3 (2010): 333-335. Peer Reviewd Article. 5 April 2014.

Pabon, Guillermo Mora and John A Ramirez. "Atrial Flutter a manifestation of Cardiac Tamponade." Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology 35.4 (2012): e87-e89. Peer reviewed Article. 5 April 2014.

Reiffel, James. "Cardioversion for Atrial Fibrillation: Treatment Options and Advances." Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology 32.8 (2009): 1073-1084. Peer Reviewed Research Article. 5 April 2014.

 

I used the database for searchit for “Bradycardia?”.

This article talks about how bradycardias are slow irregular heart rates and how they can be harmful. A bradycardia is a wide net to capture all of the heart irregularities that cause the heart to have a slow rate. This bradycardias are specific slow dysrhythmias.

For Cardioversion for Atrial Fibrillation I used PedMed.

“Cardioversion for Atrial Fibrillation” talks about a treatment of AFib and some of the side effects. It also goes over how there are some other treatment options. It also explains what Atrial Fibrillation is about.

For “Is Ablation for Atrial Flutter Always Safe?” I used Cinahl.

This is about how Atrial Flutters are sometimes treated with Ablations. It is a little unclear about what an ablation is if you have no experience with ablations. It is best suited for people who have a little bit of nursing or cardiac knowledge. It also explains what this dysrhythmia is and how it can affect people, giving them symptoms or no symptoms.

 

PART TWO:

I found it a little hard to do this assignment this week. I was more interested in reading the articles than writing about them. I as I was reading I spent time writing down quotes that I may use in the paper. I found it best to work at the school to do this because I have a younger child in my house who was on spring break this week, had the child’s friend at my house most of the week, and had my birthday this week so I was preparing for family to come. I believe that I did my best on this assignment. I spent seven hours doing it while I was at school until 1 everyday. I wish I could have done more but I have an hour commute. I found it a little easier to do the research as rather than focusing on dysrhythmias as a blanket I did searches for some of the dysrhythmia “umbrellas” I found. For example, I used “atrial fibrillation,” “Atrial Flutter,” “Bradycardia,” and “Tachycardia.” Using these terms I found it much easier to do the research because I wasn’t looking at as much in a short amount of time. I plan on getting the next assignment started and working on it at least two hours a day so I can be more thorough and begin to write the paper to a degree. I enjoyed the feeling of knowing that I can narrow it temporary in order to do research.

Unit 7

With this assignment I felt insecure about doing the assignment. Every time I thought I did an assignment completely I skipped some without realizing it. I feel confident I did most of the assigned questions and did them to the best of my understanding. I also felt that it was a good idea to look at the past 6 weeks of lessons in order to make sure that I did my best on this assignment. I'm not sure ifi have processed on the process that is suggested by Kuhthau. I still feel a little lost when I'm doing some research because i'm looking at such a broad scope. I think that I'm still narrowing it down to less of a broad topic so then the paper is understandable and legible.

UNIT 6

For my responses I used a separate font. I used Times New Roman and size 16 in hopes that it would pull the attention to them or make them more noticeable.

 

 

Unit Six Assignment

This week’s Assignment is in three parts. The first part is about writing a definite research question on your topic and then using the question with some of those search terms you have been collecting to run some searches in Academic Search Complete.

The second part is using one of the articles you have found to practice writing an annotated citation. You will use this annotated citation will be used as part of your final project and it will give me a chance to give you feedback on how well you understand the process so when you do the final project you will be able to do a great job.

Finally, in the third part, you will reflect on what you learned this week and how this part of the research process fits within the Kuhlthau model that you reflected on in Week One.

Put this in your Blog, as usual.

 1. Part One- Please follow the directions exactly. You should identify each part of the assignment so that I can easily see what question you are answering. I have bolded the main part so that you know what I expect to see in your blog.

a. You have done some background research on your topic and have learned about different facets of that topic. As you have done that background work it is likely that some part of the research you have done has piqued your interest. It is time now to write a research question that you can explore in the scholarly journals. This needs to be a question that can be answered through research -- not a question that is an opinion or a single fact.

Example: Do college students identify with the elements of the Kuhlthau model of the information search process?

NOT: How many students have read about the ISP? Or Why does the ISP have to be so repetitions?

 

Question: What are types of cardiac complications are there, how do they develop, and how do you treat them?

Plan: If I can, I plan on including how the complication can affect families. Meaning either how it may make them more vulnerable to the cardiac problem.

 

b. Look at your question and identify the main concepts of this question Please list 2 or 3 primary concepts.

Example: Do college students identify with the elements of the Kuhlthau model of the information search process

 

What are types of cardiac complication are there, how do they develop, and how do you treat them?

 

c. What are two alternate terms for each primary concept?

Example: college students= undergraduates (broad term); Freshmen (narrow term)
Information Search Process= ISP, research, library research

 

Cardiac complication= heart complications, cardiac abnormalities, dysrhythmias; develop=occur, begin; treat=cure, cure, heal

 

d. Use the Academic Search Complete thesaurus and look up one subject term for each of the main concepts of your research question. Be careful that after you click on the Subject Terms link on the blue menu bar at the top of the search page that you actually do your search in the thesaurus. There are two search boxes on the page. One is for the thesaurus and one is for the database.

Example: College student - COLLEGE students    
Information Search Process- Use INFORMATION services               

 

·       "HEART disease"

o   "HEART diseases -- Complications"

o   “HEART diseases -- Diagnosis"

o   "HEART diseases -- Diet therapy"

o   "HEART diseases -- Drug therapy"

o   "HEART diseases -- Environmental aspects"

o   "HEART diseases -- Genetic aspects"

o   "HEART diseases -- Nursing"

o   "HEART diseases -- Risk factors"

o   "HEART diseases -- Treatment"

o   "HEART murmurs"

o   "HEART valves"

o   "HEART valves -- Abnormalities"

o   "HEART valves -- Diseases"

·       Cardiac Abnormality (related to above term)

o   Arrhythmia

o   Heart atrium

o   Block

o   Disease

o   defects

·       Treatment

o   therapy

·       Develop

o   None

 

 

 

e.. Write a search statement that you can use to search for information to address your research question using the subject terms you found in the thesaurus. If there was not a subject term for one of your concepts use a keyword that makes sense to you.

Example: “college student*” AND “information search process”

 

 

“cardiac abnormality*” AND development OR Treatment

“congenital heart disease” AND development OR Treatment

“cardiac abnormality” AND “risk factors”

“congenital cardiac abnormality” AND therapy

 

 

f. Do a search in Academic Search Complete with your search words and Boolean operators. Tell me exactly what words and Boolean operators you used.

 

I used each of the ones created is part e. I also included: “heart defects” AND treatment OR development

 

g. Use at least two of the database limiters and tell me what they were.

 

I limited my search to publishings from March 2009-present and chose to only look at articles for this search.

 

2. Part Two- Annotation from Academic Search Complete- Put this in your Blog

First read the hand out on Annotated Bibliographies. You will be doing an annotated bibliography for your final project so read carefully. This and each annotated citation you do in your weekly homework will be used for that bibliography (plus a couple more).

·         Select an article from your search in Academic Search Complete that you can use for your topic.

·         Tell me the citation information in the citation form that you choose.

·         Follow the citation with an annotation that is both descriptive and evaluative using the elements of annotation in the example that follows the directions and example in the annotated bibliography hand out.

 

I chose the MLA citation format.

Zhang, Li, et al. "Real Time Three-Dimensional Echocardiography For Evaluation Of Congenital Heart Defects: State Of The Art." Echocardiography 29.2 (2012): 232-241. Academic Search Complete. Web. 16 Mar. 2014

 

3. Part Three- Write a brief paragraph in your blog that reflects on what you learned this week and how this part of the research process fits within the Kuhlthau model that you reflected on in Week One.

 

I learned how there are a lot of different combinations and you can manipulate the order of the Boolean operators and come up with different results. For example, ““congenital heart disease” AND development OR Treatment” is the original Boolean operator that I used and I simply switched the placement of “development” and “treatment.” This part of the research seems to be able to fall under formulation, and collection. I feel a bit more focused and clear on what I am looking for but not completely confident. I mean I’m somewhat confident but not absolutely confident in what I am doing. It makes more sense of what I am doing more than before when I would just look for items that seemed relevant and trying to fit it in the paper that I was writing.

March 8th, 2014

Boolean Search Practice

 

Tips:

• Do NOT use databases to run trial and error
• Do NOT worry about knowing anything about the topic: think of it as a logic puzzle and turn it into a search string.
• DO NOT over-complicate the search statement. Try to stick to two main concepts... Keep it simple!
• DO: Focus on the words in the statement.
• DO: Think about how to turn the phrase into a search statement that is logical to a database.

Topics to Practice:

·         Choose THREE questions

·         Write a Boolean search statement for each one in your Research Journal/Blog.

 

·         Does television advertising by the pharmaceutical industry have an impact on prescription drug abuse?

(Television Advertising OR media) AND prescription drug abuse

 

·         Has anti-smoking advertising by the tobacco industry lead to decreased smoking among youth?

Anti-smoking AND decrease AND youth

 

·         How much more can a college graduate expect to earn over someone with a high school diploma?

College graduate AND earning AND high school diploma

 

·         Debate the pros and cons of fish farming.

 

 

·         Should the federal government impose stronger standards for vehicle emissions?

(Federal government OR stronger standards) AND vehicle emissions

 

·         How much of current scientific breakthroughs were influenced by science fiction?

 

 

·         What stand does the American Medical Association take on natural medicine?

American medical association AND natural medicine

 

·         Is a vegetarian diet healthier than a meat-based diet?

(Vegetarian diet OR protein diet) AND health

 

·         Are big box stores like WalMart and Target good for the economy?

 

 

·         Should educators use commercial services to combat plagiarism?

 

 

·         Has the U.S. trade and globalization policy hurt the middle class?

 

 

·         What is the health impact of hand blowers over paper towels?

 

 

·         How does recess in the primary grades effect classroom behavior?

 

 

·         Does marijuana use increase the risk of lung disease from toxic chemicals?

Marijuana AND (Health risk OR toxic chemicals)