Friday, April 25, 2014

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.

Sunday, April 13, 2014

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.

Sunday, April 6, 2014

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.