Asmk and greeting, by now i would like to write my reflection as to share with you all for what i have learned from Information literacy class in chapter 04. From chapter 04 is about Citation& documenting information sources. Firstly, i have learned about Bibliography/ reference. so what is bibliography/ reference? Reference is a list of book & other materials which have some relationship to each other. that contain with these following components: Author, title, place of publication, publisher and the year of publication. then i have learned about APA style. APA style is stand for American Psychological Association, established in 1928 by social science professionals. style provides guidelines for publication in social science journals ( such as psychological, sociology, education and nursing) it lends consistency and makes texts more readable by those who assess or publish them. by using APA style we must follow three rule Author, title and documentation. Rule for author, a) start with family name for the author which have family name, follow with comma and initials for other part of the names. b) if two authors, use ampersand (&) before the last author. use coma after family name. c) more than six authors use et al. for the seventh or more author names.Example,
Lofland, L., Moore, M.H., Estrich. S, McGillis, D., Spelman, W., Parker, K. ,et al.(1999) The new criminology : For a social theory of deviance. New York : Harper & Row.
Rule for title, capitalize only the first letter of the first word of title, proper noun and subtitle. Underline or italic the title of books, title of journal, title of magazine, title of newspaper. example,
Brown, R. G. W. (1985). Laser fibre optics in biotechnology. Trends in Biotechnology, 3 (8), 200-203.
Rule for documentation, - arranged in alphabetical order- do not put the number/ bullet in bibliography/ reference - signal spaced- uses a hanging indent ( 1/2 inch) example, References:
Abdul Rahman. (2011). Introduction to business administration.Malaysia: Mc Graw Hill.
In other hand, on the same chapter also i have learned about Summarizing and paraphrasing, before i start to write more detail i would like to define what is summarizing and paraphrasing? summarizing is briefing by putting the main ideas into our own words, including only main point, summarized ideas must be attributed to the original source, significant shorter than the original and take a broad overview of source material. Paraphrasing is involves putting a message from source material into our own word by attribute paraphrases into their original source, usually shorter than but may be the same length as the original passage and take more focused segment of the source and condense it slightly. Use paraphrasing as an alternative to direct quotation it can be used for short passages. Use your own words, keep all the details of the original, cite the source and the date and do Not use quotation marks.
Example:
*Direct quotation: Martin Stephen (1998) says that "a huge purpose built campus means that everyone is guaranteed accommodation in the first year."
*Paraphrase:
The specially built campus is very large so all first year students can live there (Stephen, 1998) Furthermore, i have learned about Quoting, quoting is use as a narrow segment of the source, match the document word for word and must be attributed to the original author, use quotes when actual word are so integral to the discussion that they cannot be replaced, and use quotes when the author's word are so precisely an accurately stated that they cannot be paraphrased. A bite later i also have learned about Signal Phrases and In-Text Citation. Signal phrases introduce someone else’s work – they signal that the words and ideas that are about to be offered belong to someone other than the author of the paper. In-text citations are the parenthetical pieces of information that appear usually at the end of a quote, paraphrase, or summary (though they sometimes appear before).
