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.