Paper 302- Reaserch Methodology

 

Assignment: Paper E-C-302,

Topic: Imporatnce of  Documentation and citing web resources

Student's Name - Pooja N. Trivedi, 

Roll No - 18 

M. A. Part II, Semester - III,

Submitted To - Dr. Dilip Barad, 

                        Department of English,

                        Bhavnagar University,

                        Bhavnagar.

Importance of Docummentation and Citing web resources.

“No success is solo effort.” The line which is noted by Chetan Bhagat in the acknowledgement section of his well-known novel ‘Two States’ can be aptly applied for Research purpose because nearly all research builds on previous research. Research paper writing is an exercise which requires support and guidance from more knowledgeable sources. There is no assignment which any one will be able to complete without the use of sources that constitute a research paper-discovering assessing, and assimilating others’ research and then articulating ideas clearly and persuasively. When research is undertaken there is need of seeking materials beyond our personal resources. Hence a useful way to begin a project by studying past works on their topics and deriving relevant information and ideas from their predecessors.

Touring or reading about library will reveal the many important sources of information it makes available to researchers. After all these collection of data in presenting the work researches generally acknowledge their debts to precursors by carefully documenting it sources. Besides it is mandatory to cite the sources that have used for research. In addition to that the list of acknowledgements is proof enough of most scholars’ generosity in providing data of the past scholars.

Further as historical re-enactors a researcher have to be able to what we wear was done and worn. Accuracy is the best side product of the documentation. Literary citation becomes important for following two reasons.

1)    To avoid plagiarism

To assign proper authority to a statementThe research paper documentation provides a process of efficiently structuring the data with a description of key features of each source. In addition the proper ways of doing this sort of structuring has the same approach in writing paper itself.

Unlike other styles of documentation, MLA style is preferred in humanities. The question, perhaps confronts that why MLA style? Then one marked advantage of MLA style is its simplicity. When a paper is written with MLA style the brief reference to the sources are placed in parentheses of argument.

And at the end of the paper they are cited in alphabetical order.

.Arrangement of  Entries

 
  Entries in a works-cited list are arranged in alphabetical order, which helps the reader to find the entry corresponding to a citation in  the text. In general, alphabetize entries in the list of works cited by the author’s last name, using the letter- by- letter system. In this system, the order of names is determined by the letters before the commas that separate last names and first name. Space  and other punctuation marks are ignored. The letters following the commas are considered only when two or more last names are identical. The following examples are alphabetized letter. (For more information on alphabetizing foreign names, see 3.8)

CITING WEB PUBLICATIONS.

In performing on the World Wide Web, you may access bibliographic databases, academic, journals, archives of print publications, critical editions, reference works,dissertions, and a wide variety of other documents and recordings. Citations of  Web publications share some traits with those of print publications and other traits with those of reprinted works, broadcasts, and live performances. For example most work on the Web have an author, a title, and publication in information and are thus analogous to print publications. But while readers seeking a cited print publication can be reasonably assured that a copy in a local library will be identical to that consulted by the author, they can be less certain that a Web publication will be so Electronic texts can be updated easily and at irregular intervals. They may also be distributed  in multiple databases  and accessed through  a variety of interfaces displayed  on different kinds of equipment. Multiple various of any work may be available. In this sense, then  accessing a source on the Webis akin to commissioning a performance. Any version of a Web  source is potentially different from any past or future version and must be considered  unique. Scholars therefore need to record tge date if access as well as the publication data when citing sources on the Web.

Publication on the Web present special challenges for documentation. Because of the fluidity of the network and the many hypertextual  link between work accessed there, it is oftern difficult to determine  where one work stops and another begins. How for example , does one define a Web site? One definition would consider all pages affiliated with a particular domain name.

Initially, the URLs of the web resources in work-cited list entries were recommended. However, they prove to be very limited so gradually different parts of publication are included and if URL is presented it should be followed by the date of access in angle brackets.

Harris, Robert. "Evaluating Internet Research Sources."

     VirtualSalt. 22 November 2010.  Web. 20 Apr. 2011.

      <http://www.virtualsalt.com/evalu8it.htm>.

1.     Author or editor's last name, then first name.
2. Title of the article in quotation marks.
3. Web site name, italicized. (Underlining is no longer used.)
4. Edition or version number.
5. Web site owner or sponsor if available.
6. Date of publication (DD MM YYYY as in 15 June 2009). If a publication date is not available, use n.d. for "no date."
7. The word Web and a period to indicate the publication medium.
8. The date you accessed the site and a period.
9. [If required by your instructor or if it's necessary to find the article, include the URL (uniform resource locator--that is, Web address) of the document <in angle brackets> followed by a period.]

Citing from Web Site Databases

When the article comes from an online database such as SIRS Researcher or InfoTrac, the publication information of the print article is also included.

Note: If the database service has several sub-databases, list the exact database as well as the service (For example, EBSCO Host MasterFILE Premier, EBSCO Host Academic Search Elite, EBSCO Host Busines Source Premier.) The database name is italicized.

General:

Lastname, Firstname. "Article Title." Periodical Name

     Periodical Date: Page numbers. Database Name. Web. Date of access.

Database with author:

Rossman, Parker. "The Theology of Imagination: Science, Science

     Fiction, and Religion." Witness Oct. 1989: 12+. SIRS

     Researcher. Web. 9 Nov. 2008.

          Web presentation of periodicals may include enchantments such as hypertext links,       film clips, recordings unlike print counterparts. The documentation of this will be the same as instructed before.

CONCLUSION:  MLA style represents a consensur  among teaches scholars , and librarians in the field of language and literature on the conventions for documenting research, and those conventions will help to organize the research paper conently.  However documention of the facts and opinions drawn from research has become inevitable part of research paper always  remember that the main purpose of doing research is not to summarize the work of others byt to assimilate and to build on it and to cursive at own understanding of the subject.

The documentation should only support the statement and provide concise information,  it should not overshadow your own ideas.

Hence to be faithful to the reffered abd  scholar appropriately cite the documents are required responsibility and quality of a researcher.