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=**Web Research 6 : Managing and Citing Search Results : Part 1**=


 * Aim:**

How do we manage our Internet research using social bookmarking services?


 * Common Core State Standards:**


 * CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.7** Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question) or solve a problem; narrow or broaden the inquiry when appropriate; synthesize multiple sources on the subject, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.


 * CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.8** Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative print and digital sources, using advanced searches effectively; assess the strengths and limitations of each source in terms of the task, purpose, and audience; integrate information into the text selectively to maintain the flow of ideas, avoiding plagiarism and overreliance on any one source and following a standard format for citation.


 * Objectives:**

Students will learn how to manage and cite search results.


 * Vocabulary:**


 * folksonomy
 * social bookmarking services
 * tag cloud


 * Introduction:**

Now comes the important step of managing what we've found in a way that makes it easy for us to organize the resources for ourselves and perhaps share them with others.

It is also important to cite resources properly. Properly acknowledging your sources gives credit to others whose ideas or expressions you have used in your writing.

It is very easy to copy and paste information from the Web, but if you copy material from a source without quotation marks and present the information as your own work, you are committing an unethical act - plagiarism.

You should also be careful when paraphrasing an author's work - use your own words, don't just rearrange the author's words to make it appear as if it were your own writing.


 * Discussion:**


 * Managing Search Results**

There are several ways you can manage your search results.

Web-based services have been developed that make it easy for you to save, tag, organize, share, and search saved Web sites.

Some call these **social bookmarking services**.

The reason they are referred to as a //social// is because you have the option to tag the resources with subject headings and share them with others.

The words and phrases that users attach to resources are referred to as a **folksonomy**.

This means that users freely choose their own keywords rather than using a controlled vocabulary invented by someone else.

Thomas Vander Wal, the individual credited with the term, refers to this as a "bottom up social classification." In social bookmarking services the tags that are collected within the service often create what is called a **tag cloud**.

A tag cloud is a visual depiction of user-generated tags, with the tags that have been used most often shown in a larger font or different color.


 * Delicious**

Delicious is a social bookmarking site that allows you to organize Web sites and tag them with subjects that you choose so that you can easily locate them later. You have the option to share your resources with other so that others can find them using the tags that you have assigned, or you can keep your collection private. Delicious is also a site that you can search, much like a regular search engine. Searching resources that others have already decided are useful can be a good way to find obscure resources that may not come up highly placed in a Google search. In order to save Web resources to Delicious, you must sign up for a free account first.


 * CiteULike**

CiteULike is similar to Delicious, but its primary purpose is to allow users to cite scholarly, peer-reviewed articles. CiteULike helps you manage and share scholarly papers that you have read or plan to read. When you bookmark an article you want to save, CiteULike automatically extracts the citation details so you don't have to do it yourself. This makes it nice for preparing bibliographies. CiteULike works with several scholarly journal databases such as Cambridge University Press, JSTOR, Wiley Interscience, WorldCat, and more.


 * In-Class Activity:**

1) Go to Delicious.com.. Create an account.

2) Open a new tab and go to Google.

3) In this activity, we will search for the latest edition of the "Human Development Report," published by the United Nations Development Programme.

4) Sign up for CiteULike and add some resources to it.

5) Click on **Join Now**. You will sign up for CiteULike much like you did for Delicious. Once you're a member you can sign in. ONce you sign in, you'll see the tab at the top of the page for **MyCiteULike**. If you move the cursor over this tab, you will see a crop-down menu with several choices on it. From here you can choose to Post a URL.

6) Hold the mouse cursor over **MyCiteULike**, then click on **Post URL**. A window will pop up.

7) Scroll down to the bottom of the page. You'll see the sites that support CiteULike. Pick one of these sites that CiteULike supports. Pick WorldCat. Click on it and do a search.


 * Homework:**

1. Write a citation to the following document: "Online Social Networks, Virtual Communities, Enterprises, and Information Professionals" using MLA style. //Hint:// This is an online journal article.

2. Go to http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/11/fcc-unanimously-approves--use-television-shite-spac and write a citation to the document at that address, using APA style. //Hint:// This is a blog posting.


 * Summary Activity:**

3-2-1

Name 3 new things you learned from the lesson.

Name 2 areas in which you are still confused.

Name 1 way you might apply what you've learned to another area.


 * Source:**

Hartman, K. and Ackerman, E. (2010). Searching and researching on the Internet and the World Wide Web. Sherwood, OR: Franklin, Beedle & Associates.