Qinling Huang(黄琴玲)
Mar. 15, 2018
Literature Search Strategies
for Academic Writing II
Information literacy
“…information literate people are those who havelearned how to learn. They know how to learn becausethey know how knowledge is organized, how to findinformation and how to use information in such a waythat others can learn from them. They are peopleprepared for lifelong learning, because they can alwaysfind the information needed for any task or decision athand."
——American Library Association Presidential Committee
Outline
Review
Literature search case
Avoid plagiarism
• Google Scholar
• Library search tools
• E-databases
• Scopus
• What is plagiarism?
• Examples of plagiarism
• Ways to avoid plagiarism
Review of literature search methods
multi-database
search
single-database
search
Free search engines
Library search tools
Library e-databases
_Abstract_Web of Science, Scopus, EI…
_Full-text_Mechanical engineering: ASME, SAE…
_Electrical & Electronic Engineering: IEEE, ACM…
_OurExplore…
_Google Scholar, Baidu Scholar…
collection of data
organized in a specific
way to be
easily accessed,
managed, and updated.
Exercises
www.lib.sjtu.edu.cn
1. Search literature on the area you are interested
in and related to academic writing (e.g.,
“argumentative writing”, “expository writing”) “in
the title of the article”, then get one full text.
http://scholar.google.com/
http://scholar.google.com.hk/?hl=zh-CN
2. Search literature on “argumentative writing” via
OURExplore.
Exercises
www.lib.sjtu.edu.cn
Search literature on “argumentative writing” published from 2008 until now in the “topic” field in Web of Science core collection, and find out:
• the most cited articles
• publication year distribution
• reviews
• top 5 authors
Scopus
Finding Scopus
Scopus document search
Sort results
Most-cited paper
Full text link 2: SFX Full text link 1
Publication year distribution
Publication year
distribution
Top authors
Top authors
review (articles)
Pay attention to
review (articles)
keyword
keyword
Avoid plagiarism
What is plagiarism?
Definition
Presenting someone else’s work or ideas as your own, with
or without their consent, or incorporating it into your
work without full acknowledgement.
——Plagiarism, University of Oxford
Results
Can be a violation of copyright laws
Can be considered cheating
Getting a failing grade
Even being kicked out of school
Examples of plagiarism I
A student is expected to write a research paper
on a topic in his history class. The student had a
friend who took a similar class five years ago. The
student asks his older friend for a copy of his
paper and then takes the paper and passes it off
as his own, turning it in to the teacher with his
name on it.
http://examples.yourdictionary.com
/examples
http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-plagiarism.html
Examples of plagiarism II
A student takes a large block of text from a book
and quotes it in his paper word-for-word. The
student puts a footnote into the paper indicating
where the text came from; but, the student does
not give any indication in the text that he or she is
quoting directly from the paper.
http://examples.yourdictionary.com
/examples
http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-plagiarism.html
Examples of plagiarism III
An academic is expected to publish papers but he
doesn't have time to research because of family
obligations. He looks through old professional
journals in another country and he copies a 10-
year-old article from someone else in the field. He
submits the article as his own and hopes that no
one finds the article from which he copied.
http://examples.yourdictionary.com
/examples
http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-plagiarism.html
Examples of plagiarism IV
A guy wants to create an internet website to
increase advertisement revenue. Instead of
writing his own articles, he visits twenty other
websites that have articles on the topic in which
he is interested. He copies each of the articles,
changes the titles and the authors' names to his
name and posts the articles on his own website.
http://examples.yourdictionary.com
/examples
http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-plagiarism.html
Shouldn’t we use the work of others?
It’s important to situate your writing within the
intellectual debates of your discipline
Academic essays always involve the use and
discussion of material written by others, with due
acknowledgement and proper referencing
Good citation
helps strengthen your argument
helps your reader follow up your references, or check the
validity of your interpretation
6 Ways to Avoid Plagiarism
Paraphrase
Put the useful information into your own words.
Don’t copy verbatim more than two words in a row from
the text.
If you use more than two words together, you have to use
quotation marks.
Cite
Follow the document formatting guidelines (i.e. APA,
MLA, Chicago, etc.) used by JI
Referencing
Include a reference page at the end of your research paper
Meet JI document formatting guidelines
6 Ways to Avoid Plagiarism
Quoting
Use the quote exactly the way it appears
Avoid quotes of 40 words or more
Learn to effectively paraphrase most material
Citing Your Own Material
Using material you have used before is called self-plagiarism
Treat the text the same as you would if someone else wrote it
Citing Quotes
Different from citing paraphrased material
Involves the addition of a page number
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