Week 7

Lecture Summary:

Referencing is very important in todays society. It helps the reader distinguish your ideas from the ideas of others and it is a good way to acknowledge your sources. A reference is also seen as a useful tool for readers to find follow up information on the topic of your work. Most writers also cite or quote a reference in their piece of writing to back up the idea being shown. a bibliography or reference list is an alphabetical list that shows all the works used to help portray an idea and is usually located at the end of the writing. Endnote is a computerised flat-file database system that allows the user to compile and manage references and can create bibliographies from them. The interesting thing about endnote is the fact that it can be incorperated into MS Word. This allows university students to easily manage a bibliography while writing, instead of when they are finished, which saves time. Endnote consists of many different recognised styles and types of referencing that makes it handy for any situation in life. It has shown itself to be a very reliable tool and will probally only continue to improve in the years to come.


Tutorial Summary:

1. Review the online referencing guide and include examples of referencing five different types of electronic format material.

Screenshot of Online Referencing Guide:


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The online referencing guide has given me the ability to reference all types of media in the correct ECU format. I have used this guide in order to reference 5 different types of electronic format material. These are as follows:-

Webpage=

Technical specifications (iPod). [n.d.] Retrieved May, 2008, from Apple:
http://www.apple.com/iPod/specs.html

Wiki=

Dogs. (n.d.) Retrieved May 24, 2008, from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogs

Aggregated Database=

Hannis, W. C., & Black, D. L. (1997). Role of elderly people in society. Journal of Applied
Psychology, 72, 444-450. Retrieved May 24, 2008, from PsycARTICLES database.

Electronic Newspaper Article=

Jandis, J. D. (2007, May 12). Change of legislation. Mandurah Mail. Retrieved May 24, 2008,
from http://www.mandurahmailnewspaper.com.au/

CD-ROM=

Maths Made Easy [CD]. (2000). Sydney, New South Wales: CD-ROM Publishing



2. Complete the "Endnotev11 Exercises for Vista" found on blackboard.

Screenshot of ProQuest:


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Screenshot of completed endnote exercise:


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3. Complete the "Cite while you write Endnote Exercise" found on Blackboard.

Screenshot of completed exercise:


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Reading Summary:

1. Endnote

This reading is all about how to use the computer program called Endnote. It has been especially designed and written for students at ECU and explains the many different procedures a student would need to know in order to use endnote. The main topics it covers are:-

• Building a new endnote reference library
• Displaying and Searching
• making citations
• Generating a reference list
• Using Endnote in MS Word
• Backing up
• Importing references

As this is over 19 pages long i only skimmed through the main points, however, i found that this will be a very useful resource to any student wishing to use Endnote in their future studies.

2. Some Additional Endnote Help

This is a website that seems to be founded by the Endnote program creators. It provides many different downloads and patches that will help the program run better as well as keep the referencing system up to date. There is also a frequently asked question section that gives users of Endnote the ability find out answers to common questions. It is possible to email a feedback/support service for additional Endnote help. Overall this site I think this webpage could be very useful for the more advanced Endnote user as well as for the new user trying to find out answers to the problems they're having.