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Week 11: Plagiarism and Citation

Part 1: Passages from Student Papers: 1.        ___ Kids don’t have any heroes to look up to in contemporary society, so we need to look to the past to find examples of leaders who approached perfection. We need to remember our Founding Fathers as men of unblemished good character and important accomplishments. For example, Joseph J. Ellis calls Thomas Jefferson a “fervent believer in human freedom,” a “sincere advocate of agrarian simplicity,” a man of “principled ideals,” and the author of “the most famous statement of equality in American history” (46). WORKS CITED  Ellis, Joseph J. “Jefferson’s Cop-out.” Civilization 3: (December/January, 1996-97): p 46-53. I would grade this as “F”. The writer uses direct quotes and cites his source but the original source is taken out of context. The writer uses the quotations to further his or her argument, but this is not what the original author is trying to say at all. 2.        ___ Joseph J. Ellis argues that Jefferson inha
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Evaluating Sources

My Research question is: What are some alternative treatments used for mood disorders besides those commonly used within Western biomedicine and pharmacotherapy? 1.      1.  Qureshi, N. A., & Al-Bedah, A. M. (2013). Mood disorders and complementary and alternative medicine: a literature review.  Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment ,  9 , 639–658. http://doi.org/10.2147/NDT.S43419 ·          This article is a review of the literature on complementary and alternative treatments for mood disorders. The author discusses the relevance of CAM in the treatment of mood disorders and evaluates a variety of alternative and complementary treatments. These include dietary supplements and herbs, meditation, yoga, acupuncture and exercise. While the author notes that none of these treatments are sufficient in the primary treatment of mood disorders, many are useful in adjunct to biomedical approaches such as pharmacotherapy. CAM may be especially useful for patients who do not respond
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Week 9: Citation Mining

Part One: 1.        Allardt, E. 1993. “Having, Loving, Being: An Alternative to the Swedish Model of Welfare Research.” In Martha Nussbaum and Amartya Sen, eds., The Quality of Life, 88-94. Clarendon Press, Oxford. ·          Book ·          I would use Search It via the library page ·          This book can be accessed online through Oxford University press ebooks. It is also available at the Holland Terrell library and through Summit. 2.        Beck, Ulrich. 1992. Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity. Sage, London. ·          Book ·          I would first use Search It ·          Can be requested from Holland Terrell library or Tri-cities library and summit libraries. 3.        Dake, Karl. 1991. “Orienting Dispositions in the Perception of Risk: An Analysis of Contemporary World Views and Cultural Biases.” Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 22 (1): 60-81. ·          Peer reviewed Journal article ·          I used Search It and selected “articles, books, a
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Google Scholar

This week we explored google scholar: What search terms or search phrases did you use to search Google Scholar? Traditional medicine AND "Mood disorders" Ethnomedicine AND "Mood disorders" Alternative medicine AND "mood disorders" Alternative treatments AND "Bipolar" · What limiters did you use? Relevance   · What did you find here that you have not seen in the databases? I found the "related searches" links at the bottom of the results to be helpful. More so than the topic links provided by the library databases.   · How did this search process compare with the library databases you have been using? Was it easier or more difficult? I found google scholar easy to use but the library databases and books are still most useful for my topic. I found that I was having to weed through some irrelevant information but I also found many of the articles from searching a variety of subject specific database
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Subject Specific Databases

The Three Databases and articles I found this week are: 1. From PsychInfo Assad, T., Okasha, T., Ramy, H., Goueli, T., El-Shinnawy, H., Nasr, M.,... Shorab, I. (2015). Role of traditional healers in the pathway to care of patients with bipolar disorder in Egypt.  International Journal of Social Psychiatry,  61 (6), 583-590. http://ntserver1.wsulibs.wsu.edu:2090/10.1177/0020764014565799  PsychInfo is a psychology specific database. My research is focusing on types of ethnomedicine the approach to the treatment of mood disorders which are psychological disorders from the biomedical perspecitve.  2. From Anthropological Literature Storck, M. (2000). Depressive illness and Navajo healing.  Medical Anthropology Quarterly ,  14 (4), 571-597.  http://www.jstor.org/stable/649721 Anthropological Literature is an anthropology specific database. Ethnomedicine is a sub-discipline of medical anthropology.  3. From Pubmed/Medline Kelly, B. (2008). Buddhist psychology, psychot
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Formulating a Research Question and Academic Search Complete

Part One: My Research question (thus far) is:  How do traditional medical systems, outside of Western biomedicine, approach the treatment of mood disorders? Part Two:  a. The main concepts in my research question are: traditional medicine and mood disorders. b. Search Statement: (Ethnomedicine OR Traditional Medicine) AND mood disorder* c. Used in ASC:  ethnomedicine OR "traditional medicine" AND "mood disorder*" "Ayurved*" AND "mood disorder*" "Chinese medicine" AND "mood disorder*"  acupuncture AND "mood disorder*" "native American* AND "traditional medicine" AND "mental health" "indigenous people*" AND "traditional medicine" AND "mood disorder*" "indigenous people*" AND "traditional medicine" AND "mental health" d. Database Limiters used: peer reviewed, publication date Part Three: Thi
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Boolean Operators and Subject Terms

Part one: Looking up subject terms My search terms and their corresponding subject terms were: 1. "Ethnomedicine" Subject terms= TRADITIONAL medicine, ETHNOPSYCHOLOGY 2. "Mood disorders" Subject terms= AFFECTIVE disorders, MOOD research Part two: Reflection What part of this lesson did you find useful?   This exercise provided a great refresher for me on Boolean phrases. Although I was previously aware of how to utilize them, I feel like this gave me a few reminders and new ideas on how I might be able to put them to work for me on my current topic. The subject terms are not something I have really paid all that much attention to before and will be helpful for looking at future research topics.  How do you intend to use these skills for future searches?   I always forget about using the asterisk for truncation! This will make my time spent searching much shorter if I remember to do this instead of searching plural and other forms of my terms. I have
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