Category Archives: Homework

Homework Worksheet for October 3 is Ready

Posted on September 21, 2011 by Stephen Francoeur

This afternoon, I updated the homework assignment that is due on October 3. You can check it out on the course website.

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Using Parentheses and AND and OR Correctly

Posted on September 21, 2011 by Stephen Francoeur

Looking at your homework for today about AND and OR searches with parentheses, I saw a common mistake in the way you failed to use parentheses or misused the search boxes (which work the same way as a set of parentheses).

Say, for example, you want to find articles that talk about novels or fiction that take place in Asia or are about Asia in some way. Using novels, fiction, and Asia as your keywords, there are two ways to enter your searches correctly and more than a few ways to do it wrongly.

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Comments on the 5 Books about Google Assignment

Posted on September 15, 2011 by Stephen Francoeur

I’ve now graded everyone’s homework that asked you to list five books about Google and break down the call number using the outline of the Library of Congress Classification system. If you go into Google Documents and find your homework, you should see my comments on the side of the document, including your grade. As with all homework assignments, you can earn a maximum of 50 points. For this assignment, I was making sure that each book was actually about Google (a few of you selected books that weren’t really about Google) and that you had broken down the call number into the broad and narrow topics that are indicated by the number.

These are the things I hope that you noticed as you worked on the assignment:

  • all the books on Google are not in one place in the library and are instead scattered around in different subject areas, such as:
    • HD28 – HD70: Management. Industrial management
    • HD9680 – HD9714: Mechanical industries. Including electric utilities, electronic
      industries, and machinery
    • HF5801 -HF6182: Advertising
    • K85-K89: Legal research
    • LB1025 – LB1050.75: Teaching (Principles and practice)
    • TK5101 – TK6720 (Telecommunication. Including telegraphy, telephone, radio, radar, television)
    • Z674.7 – Z674.83: Library information networks
  • the full call number indicates what is usually a fairly narrow topic
  • there are a wealth of topics related to Google that you may want to investigate further for your final project in the class

 

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First Homework Assignment: Due September 12

Posted on September 7, 2011 by Stephen Francoeur

The first homework assignment which asks you to find five books about Google in the library catalog, copy down their call numbers, and break down the topics in the call number, is fully described on the course website in this box on the homework page.

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What is the easiest and hardest for me when I do research

Posted on September 5, 2011 by Yuna Chong

The easiest part of doing research is finding sources online. The hardest part is using the sources properly, such as, footnoting, quoting and writing about the sources.

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