5th topic

Synthesis

Finally we reached at the end of the topics for this semester, and this is the last topic of this subject. In this topic we have learnt all about synthesis. At first she started with the definition of the synthesis. According to my understanding “Synthesizing is like putting a puzzle together and we have to sort out our thinking and put it in the right place.”  Fundamentally, Synthesis is a system of organization. There are many kinds of strategies we can use to organize the information such as Chronological Organization, Hierarchical Organization and lastly Alphabetical Organization.

  

To finish the topic early she started describing in more details as fast as she can. She also maintains that there has a difference between summarizing and synthesis. As she has point out to us that Summarizing is identifying key points and organizing thoughts, a listing of the parts, and summarizing usually occurs at the end. Beside that she also stated that synthesizing is the creation of a whole, but it goes on throughout the process of reading; not just at the end.  It is bringing together different ideas and facts and weaving them together into a tapestry, something much larger than all the threads. From my understanding, summarizing also is part of synthesis.  We can’t synthesize if we don’t know how to summarize.  Summarizing is the act of briefly presenting the main point.  When teaching summary, teachers should encourage readers to retell information by including important ideas but not telling too much. Alhamdulillah finally with this topic we have done our information literacy subject. 

4th topic

Introduction to Citation

Now we are in topic four and in this topic our main lesson was all about the way of citation. During this session we came to know the importance of citation. Whenever we take some information from others sources or from others idea without any citation then it's called plagiarism, which is illegal and forbidden. This plagiarism is similar to steal, because we take other ideas without any reference. Those people who do the plagiarism can be punished brutally. Consequently, to avoid the plagiarism appropriate citation is essential. To do the citation appropriately some of the rules should be followed. During the class hour our respective lecturer explained several rules which are needed to do the correct citation .At first she gave us the primary knowledge about the materials of citation, as an example author name, publication year, book title publisher etc. After that we have maintains the serial as like, at first we have to write the author name after that year followed by others. 

After introducing with the summary part we have learnt more ways about the citation. There are three ways of doing citation, but we are doing the APA style of citation, since it is more appropriate than other style. To do the citation from the different sources we have to follow different ways as an example, when we take information from books and again when we take information from magazine for the citation the way will be different from each other. So to make us more clear about the many rules of citation our Miss showed us several slide show which were on the base of different sources citation. In addition our lecturer also warned us that from wherever we take the information, whether it can be book or internet we have to cite it following the APA style citation. There are several internet sources such as Blog, Online article, Wikipedia and so on. Hence, to write in more formal way without any plagiarism the importance of citation is unavoidable.

APA Citation

         To know about the particular citation she started with the new session of citation.  Our respective lecturer again re-explained about the introduction of citation which we have learned our last class and based on this topic she asked us several question to investigate that weather we have understood our last lesson. After that to continue our class we were introduced with the new topic. But the new topic was also related with the previous topic which was all about the APA style citation. However, the only difference is in previous week we have learnt that we take our information from the other sources without any changing. During this session we also take the information but, not the exactly what the author have written. During the having with this topic the main lesson was related with the paraphrasing, summarizing, and quoting. 

Paraphrasing:

                    When we do paraphrasing we take the main idea and after that we write it in our own words. During this class I was confused because we are not taking the exact information what the writer have told then why we still have to cite it? Then my lecturer explained me that we are still using other idea so we have to cite it.  

Summarizing:

                 Summarizing is when we summarize the others writing to make use it in our writing. Usually we summarize from the original sources. Whenever we summarize, we just take the main point from the author writing. After finishing the summarizing still we have to mention the author name, year to make sure avoiding the plagiarism.

Quoting:

           In term of quoting we use exactly what the author or writer have told in his/her writing with quotation mark. But if our quotation is more than forty words then we don't have to use the quotation marks. But we have to write it a little bit far from the main line. And after that we have to use the citation.