2. In this presentation
Literature Review
Document Management using Technology (not
particular one)
About Plagiarism
Promoting Open Access
3. Literature Reviews
Broadly three types: historical, conceptual,
methodological
Searching and managing reference
Coding the concepts
Writing (in your own words):
– Tone: constructively inform the readers; do not be
over critical
– Tense: past or present?
– Thought: develop a theoretical underpinning; build
constructs and give meaning to the writing by
weaving a logical story
4. Managing Document
First, a good comprehensive search (use
appropriate databases, reviews, indexes;
beyond Google)
Library Cards are old fashioned; use a
bibliographic management too, such as
Take notes while searching; add your code to
the notes to help sorting
Use your own systematic approach – I use a
two column table in the world file, add my
codes in one column, and notes in another
with link to my database.
5. Plagiarism is a habit…
Habit is a type of behaviour that is repeated regularly;
these are acquired either intentionally or unintentionally
Unintentionally plagiarism happens in most cases, due to
lack of training and rigour in academia
Plagiarism happens, when you steal someone else idea
or word and pass off as yours without crediting the
source
Remember ideas are not copyrighted; expression of
ideas are. But, idea in the sense of a plot in a story or
drama, if used without credit is plagiarism.
Paraphrasing without credit to the source too is
plagiarism
But, from where this habit comes?
6. Stages of Creating …
Copying: Everyone of us learn by copying. It is an
essential element of learning.(early schooling)
Imitating: modelling behaviour of our parents and
teachers to imitating an artist’s work (maybe up to
senior secondary stage)
Generating: where start compiling data to generate
some reports (normally at undergraduate stage, but also
happen at school level)
Creating: actually creating something new, writing a
dissertation; designing a new experiment; developing a
new product, etc (beyond graduation)
7. Plagiarism comes from:
Lack of fear of consequences of getting
caught (loss of image, job, etc)
Lack of training and rigour in writing process
Lack of conceptual understanding, and
language skills
Lack of understanding of open online,
copyright and open access
Lack of honour code in educational
institutions
8. Reference/Bibliography Styles
APA Style, Ed 6
MLA Style
Chicago Manual of Style, Ed 16
Harvard Style
Indian Standard for Information and
Documentation 2009