LIB100

Here is the ruberic we used when grading your assignments:

worth .25 points

• Not writing in complete sentences
• More than one error in a citation (including not double spacing or not indenting)
• Annotations that were too short to convey information
• Missing some evaluative information of the source
• Missing electronic information in a citation
• Using a book review instead of a scholarly article
• Using an article that is too short to be scholarly
• Citing with APA format rather than MLA
• Not writing answers in paragraph form
• Using an older work with no justification for its age

worth .5 points

• No evaluation of a source at all

worth 1 point

• The source was not relevant to the assignment

We enjoyed your presentations and reading your group projects.  Your grades have been added to Blackboard and should be up on WIN.

If your group lost any points on the Notebook, you will see comments from us explaining why.  Some individuals also lost extra points for not making changes we recommended earlier.

Thanks everyone for a great semester.  We really enjoyed having you in our class.  If you have any questions please let us know!  We’d also be happy to help you with research projects in the future, so be sure to get in touch with us if you have any questions on future projects.

Have a great holiday!

Hi everyone.  Several people have had questions about quiz answers, so we’re posting the correct answers here.

Quiz 1:

1. We are planning to use all of these technologies in the course of this class: clickers, blog, google documents, and google notebook.
2. The link to the syllabus can be found on the front page of our blog, on the right hand side of the screen, under the heading “Pages.”

Quiz 2:

1. All of the following methods are valid to broaden or narrow a topic: date (years, months, weeks, days), source (TV, newspaper, internet), geography (continent, country, state, city), and specific group of people (age, gender, ethnicity).
2.  The length of your paper impacts how broad or narrow your topic should be and the resources you should use.  The longer the paper, the more breadth you can cover.  You will need more sources in order to have sufficient research to cover the breadth of your topic.  The shorter the paper, the more narrow and specific your topic will need to be.  You will not need as many sources, but they will need to be very carefully selected to focus on the specific topic you’ve chosen.

Quiz 3:

1. Searching for Anorexia AND Bulimia would mean that each result would have to contain both terms, rather than just one or the other.  This would give you fewer results.  Searching Anorexia OR Bulimia would find all articles containing Anorexia and all articles containing Bulimia, giving you more results.
2. Folksonomies are classification systems created by those who use the information, rather than experts in the subject.
3. Truncation allows you to search for multiple words with the same stem at the same time.  By searching child* you would find articles containing child, children, childhood, etc.  Truncation saves you time.

Quiz 4:

1. The information timeline goes in this order: web/television, newspaper,  magazine,  journal article, book, reference book/encyclopedia.
2. To limit searches in the ZSR Library catalog, go to the catalog home page and click the yellow “more limits” button on the right hand side of the page.

Please let us know if you still have questions!