Transcript Local Boards of Trustees Meeting

Step 1
I found it,
Now what?
Background
Well done, you found some good web sites thanks
to search engines and using smart strategies. Now
it is time to use this information, but where to start?
I know I’ll print them all.
WRONG find out why.
Or I’ll copy and paste them.
WRONG find out why
Objective
By the end of this lesson you will know:
 How to reference a web site
 The dangers of plagiarism.
 The importance of knowing the
difference between your ideas and
words and someone else’s.
Lesson
Whew, all that hard work using search engines has
really paid off. I found some great web sites. There is
an awful lot of information to read and remember. How
am I going to do it all?
Easy, by taking it one step at a time.
That first step is keeping track of all
those great web sites.
Once you find a good web site, that has
information you want. You need to save it by:
1) Adding it to your bookmarks, for
easy retrieval.
This allows you to go back to a web
site quickly and easily, without
having to type the address (URL).
2.
Keeping a record of the following pieces of
information for your bibliography:
Author, “Page Title.” Site Title. Publication
Date. Date Visited. <URL>.
Let’s use the web page, where you found this PowerPoint as an
example.
Tompson, C., “I Found It, Now What?” Step 1 Section 2. 2006. 10
February, 2006.
<http://www.tompsonsolutions.com/masters/step1.htm>.
The information that you collect, when
referencing a web site, lets anyone in the world
visit that same web site.
Author, “Page Title.” Site Title. Publication
Date. Date Visited. <URL>.
Remember that web sites do get updated
(changed), that is why we include the date
you last visited the web site.
Saving the web site information allows you to:
1) Go back to it, or recommend it to other people.
2) Reference it in your work. This means
formally recognizing where you found the
information. This will go in your bibliography
as a way to acknowledge the author for the
helpful information.
3) Let others know which ideas are your own,
and which ideas belong to other people.
You know it is wrong to steal.
You know it is wrong to cheat.
So, why do people do it in their writing?
It’s called plagiarism when you use or copy
somebody else’s work or ideas and don’t say
where it comes from.
This is very serious, and in school teachers may
give you a zero or worse.
If I can’t copy (plagiarize), how am I supposed to tell
others what I have learnt?
Easy, by learning a few strategies you will
be able to look over a web site and pull
out the main ideas. These strategies will
be explained to you as you work through
step 2 to 6.
Don’t panic you will learn a few
different ways, and you will soon find a
favourite.
Sometimes you might want to share the exact
words from someone else’s work. This is
called a quote. It is alright, as long as you let
people know that they aren’t your words.
Instead you use quotation marks and indicate
who said it, and where you found it
(reference.)
Let’s Review
 Bookmark or write down each useful web
site.
 Be sure to reference any web sites used in
your research in a bibliography.
 Plagiarism will not be tolerated. Use quotes,
and say who wrote it.
You are now ready to practice,
complete Activity Sheet 1