Google Google and Google.
a) Am I impressed by Google's search functions?
Of course! Most of the time, I'll use Google search engine for my projects and for leisure. However, today I've used more functions in Google that i usually did not use. Other that 'images' which i use frequently, I've tried to do some research from 'news' and 'books', which helped to categorize the search and provide a more specific results for me. It also provides different sources like blogs and functions such as translate that could serve different users' needs.
Google generates a great number of information from different forms too. Such as the pdf files, documents and etc.
I also learn about Boolean could help me source out more specific and detailed information. By using some techniques I've learn for the search query, it further stream down and focuses even more, for the convenient for me.
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About Forums
b) My opinion about forum.Forums are pretty cool as i could seek others' opinions, which sometimes widen my thoughts and see things in different perspective because of their perspectives and experiences that i never had. It is definitely a good platform for others to voice their opinion. Some people could only have the confidence to speak behind the screen. Therefore, discussion forum is a good place for people who could not voice their views in a face to face manner, releasing their way of thinking through posting comments online might be a comfortable method for some people.
As for me, sometimes I'll get emotional when i read some comments made in the forum. i got to see people 'arguing' via Internet, and some could express their feelings and opinion so well through words. That's, impressive.
I feel more relax rather than nervous as what ever comment I made, I could stay anonymous and will feel relax with any restrictions to voice out my opinion about certain things compared to saying things to people face to face. However, I have to be a responsible person still, beware of what I am posting up so that no one is hurt or get into trouble.
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c) Why must we do citation and bibliography?
One way to not get into trouble is to include citation in our work. Firstly, we have to give credit for the person who contributed the information that we searched. If not, we'll be playing plagiarism! There are so many different kind of citing for the sources for different type of information. This might be troublesome, but we have to be to those people who contributed their time & effort for sharing their information. Therefore we have to acknowledge them.
Citing bibliography is showing a huge list of sources that I had reviewed during me research. It is like process documentation. Through this, it helps to show how much work and preparation we have done for our work. It also gives those who are reading our work some other sources to further understand what we are presenting by looking through our process documents but citing the bibliography. In conclusion, even if we are using Internet as anonymous to look for our information that we need for researches, it is our responsibility to put in citation of others, to credit and respect them for sharing the information., and not claiming their works as ours.