1a. How might you avoid plagiarism, specifically? Or, give an example of plagiarism in the news.1b. If you have been a student in a traditional setting, you know that some teachers and faculty oppose the use of software in their classes. Some believe computers in the classroom distract learners, and draw their attention away from the subject matter.What do you think about this issue? Share your own experience. Feel free to reference your answers with resources from the Internet or your own reading.2a. What are the advantages and disadvantages when using wikis, blogs, and collaboration tools for Academic research?2b. There are a number of resources available for University academic database. Which academic database would you most often use and why?3a. Have you ever used scholarly articles? What do you see as the benefits and drawbacks of scholarly journals versus wiki-sites and .com websites as academic resources?3b. After reading the Mogey and Hartley (2013) article, discuss what you think about the authors concluding comments at the bottom half of p. 91. In other words, do you agree or disagree with the authors? Do you have anything to add to the authors’ conclusions? Please explain.3c. How have software programs like Windows helped or hindered the learning process for the modern student?4a. Based upon the scenario below, research and write a 2 page paper (excluding title page and reference page) addressing the areas mentioned. Your paper should be in APA style with at citing references as appropriate. Use at least 3 but no more than 7 references with at least 1 reference from a scholarly journal article (use the TUW library databases). The reference citations should be consistent.Citation help:The Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)http://owl.english.purdue.edu/ http://www.bibme.org/http://citationmachine.net/index2.phpAPA Style Formatting:http://www.sagepub.com/bjohnsonstudy/pdf/How%20to%20Write%20a%20Re search%20Report%20in%20APA%20Style.pdfCase assignment scenario: Your organization has been chosen to present a scholarly paper on information literacy and the growing popularity of online colleges. Using at least one source from a .gov, one source from a scholarly journal, and one .edu site, examine this phenomenon. Why are online colleges becoming more popular? What are the potential flaws with this modality? What are the strengths? Why would a person choose online versus face-to-face modalities? What kind of resources, both software and Internet-based tools facilitate online learning and why?4a. What was the first word-processor you ever used, and how has the technology changed over the years compared to what features are now found in Word? If you never used a word processor before, how can you use a Word processor to assist you?4b. Excel is designed for numerical operations, but people have found many other uses for the application. How might one use Excel in writing a research paper or an essay?4c. Do you think it is important to cite your sources? Is it ever a hindrance or unnecessary?5a. Suppose you were asked to present your final assignment as a PowerPoint presentation. What are some key rules of thumb when preparing and delivering your presentation?5b. What challenges do you personally face when trying to write a research or term paper? What do you feel you can do to meet these challenges?5c. If you had limited time to prepare a presentation, both for researching the topic and creating the presentation itself, what would be your priorities?5d. Do you think all learners are more likely to learn better online than by traditional means? Why or why not?5e. Do you believe there is a difference between using online technology to train in education vs. the workplace. Please share your thoughts and provide a couple of examples.6a. Write a 3 pages paper on how to conduct academic research using Internet resources. For example, some of the topics you might explore are: How the Internet has changed academic paper-writing, what search engines are and how they work, what Boolean expressions are and how they are used in the search process, what research resources and tools exist now that we have the Internet, how the Internet has changed how we cite references, technology-related methods for organizing and producing our papers, etc.).Your paper can concentrate on one of the suggested topics in-depth or you might cover a few or most of the topics in your paper. An example of covering one topic in-depth is that you might research and describe how technology has changed academic paper-writing over time, from the time that e-mail was invented through current Internet technology. Another example of covering a single topic in-depth might be to explore how student searches for articles and books has changed since the time we used card catalogs to current Internet- based searches, new techniques, and on-line libraries. Further another in-depth, single-topic example is to locate and describe the different technology tools and techniques for organizing information for a research paper. An example of how you might pull multiple topics together would be to write about the impact of the Internet on the different steps in the paper-writing process, from research through to the writing process.(OWL)http://owl.english.purdue.edu/ http://www.bibme.org/http://citationmachine.net/index2.phpAPA Style Formatting:http://www.sagepub.com/bjohnsonstudy/pdf/How%20to%20Write%20a%20Re search%20Report%20in%20APA%20Style.pdf
