Year IV students’ blog for Internet Education

Thesis Statement:

Is the effect of the harvesting of non-wood forest products good or bad for the environment?

It only took me less than 2 minutes to search a source for my synthesis paper.

Non-Wood Forest Products are products of biological origin other than wood derived from forests, other wooded land and trees outside forests. It can also be gathered from the wild, or produced in forest plantations, agroforestry schemes and from trees outside forests. Examples of these include products used as food and food additives (edible nuts, mushrooms, fruits, herbs, spices and condiments, aromatic plants, game), fibres (used in construction, furniture, clothing or utensiles), resins, gums, and plant and animal products used for medicinal, cosmetic or cultural purposes.

Celesta, Lacuna-Richman. “Ethnicity and the Utilization of Non-Wood Forest Products: Findings from Three Philippine Villages”. [Internet] 19, Nov, 2008.

http://www.meta.fi/silvafennica/full/sf37/sf371129.pdf

Source from Library: none

Time taken: 30 mins.

Thesis Statement: Sustainable development is obtainable

What is sustainable development?

Library

Sustainable development is a broad concept referring to the need to balance the satisfaction of near-term interests with the protection of the interests of future generations, including their interests in a safe and healthy environment.

Time: 13 minutes

Internet

Sustainable development is development that ensures that the use of resources and the environment today does not restrict their use by future generations.

Time: 3 minutes

“What is sustainable development? ” [Online] 19 Nov 2008. http://www.translationdirectory.com/glossaries/glossary027.htm

Thesis Statement: Caffeine has bad effects

Internet: 20 seconds

Caffeine is a bitter white crystalline xanthine that acts as a psychoactive stimulant drug and a mild diuretic (speeds up urine production) in humans and other animals.

Library: none

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Mary L. Gavin, MD. Caffein And Your Child. 12 Nov 08. http://kidshealth.org/parent/nutrition_fit/nutrition/caffeine.html

Thesis Statement:Vitamin C helps lessen Arsenic in our system.

HL-60

Internet : 2 minutes

The HL-60 (Human promyelocytic leukemia cells) cell line is a leukemic cell line that has been used for laboratory research on how certain kinds of blood cells are formed.

Wikipedia. HL-60.[Online] 12 Nov 2008.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HL60

Library : -

None

As you discovered in the Library vs. Internet exercise, using search engines like Google presents the key advantages of the internet in retrieving information: It’s faster than a library search; you get more materials and more content types (e.g., links, images, video, etc.); it’s easier to include or insert gathered data in your work (cut-and-paste, copy-and-paste) without the tedium of having to manually encode text or make your own illustrations; citing references becomes a breeze for online submissions; etc.

The downside to all these is that “faster,” “more” and “easier” do not necessarily mean “better.”

Realize that Googling or retrieving any information online:

• Does not guarantee the accuracy of information gathered;
• Tends to promote laziness or, worse, plagiarism; and
• Is a tool to help develop, and not a substitute for, your personal inputs.

What can you do to improve your work, with search engines as a tool?

• Read what you retrieve. Understand what you read.
• Evaluate the accuracy of the data. Check on the reliability of the source website.
• Attribute sources properly.
• Write more than the amount of material you download. Paraphrase whenever you can.

Thesis Statement: Overpopulation is bad for us.

Mortality Rate

Mortality rate is a measure of the number of deaths per unit of time.

Time spent for looking in the internet: 3 mins.

Wikipedia,the free encyclopedia. Mortality Rate. Nov 12 2008.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortality_rate

Mortality rate is the probability of death in the first year of life.

Time spent in the library: 6 mins.

Lauren Bahr and Bernard Johnston. [Population]Library. Collier’s Encyclopedia. Nov 12 2008.

Effects of methamphetamine(shabu)

It took me less than a minute to find a site that was useful to my SP

Methamphetamine is a psychostimulant and sympathomimetic drug. It is a member of the family of phenylethylamines. The dextrorotary dextromethamphetamine can be prescribed to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, though unmethylated amphetamine is more commonly prescribed.

Wikipedia.”Methamphetamine”. 12 Nov 2008. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methamphetamine

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It took me less than 2 mins. to search in the library

Methamphetamine is a powerful drug nicknamed “speed”. It quickly produces feelings of joy, strength, and alertness. Methamphetamine gives a user the capacity to work and talk for long periods of time.

Fetzer, Scott. “Methamphetamine” .The World Book Encyclopedia.12 Nov 2008

Internet article:How prevalent is TV in the lives of very young children?

More than four in 10 (43%) of children under the age of 2 watch TV every day and nearly one in five (18%) watch videos or DVDs every day.

PBS parents. “TV and Kids under Age 3″. 12 Nov 2008. http://www.pbs.org/parents/childrenandmedia/article-faq.html

library:none

Time taken:2 min. in the internet and time taken:15 min. in the library

When I used the internet to find a site that could be useful for my synthesis paper, it only took a few seconds to a minute. I found information on my topic from so many sites, and they were easily accessible such  as this site. 

Wikipedia. Ethanol Fuel.[Online] 12 Nov 2008.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol_fuel 

On the other hand, searching for it in the library took me about 15-20 minutes, and the book that i had found does not really talk about my topic. 

 World Book. U.S.A. World Book Inc. Corn. 5 Nov 2008. 1984

 Here are sites that i have found useful to my synthesis paper in the internet :  

Proceedings of The National Academy of Science. Environmental, economic. and energetic costs and benefits of biodiesel and ethanol biofuels.[Online] 12 Nov 2008. http://www.pnas.org/content/103/30/11206.full.pdf+html?sid=0d7db4ca-04d1-4a7d-b437-0972bd3693fe

Proceedings of The National Academy of Science. Net energy of cellulosic ethanol from switchgrass.[Online] Aug 2008.  http://www.pnas.org/content/105/2/464.full.pdf+html?sid=d46d44a7-5721-4863-aa97-44f1229873fc

Thesis Statement: Climate change is caused by nature itself.
Internet: Solar variations is said to be one of the most common cause of climate change.
Time: 1 minute
Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia. Climate change[ONLINE]. 12 Nov 2008. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change
Library: The climate is affected by the sunspot activities occuring in the sun.
Time: 5 minutes.
Bahr, Lauren S., Bernard Johnston, Climate[LIBRARY], Collier’s Encyclopedia, 12 Nov 2008.

Violent video games influence hostile behaviour of adolescents

Internet: 3 mins.

A video game is a game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device. The word video in video game traditionally referred to a raster display device. However, with the popular use of the term

“video game”, it now implies any type of display device. wikipedia. Video game. 12 Nov. 08.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game

Library: 20 mins.

Video game- electronic games played by manipulating images that are displayed on a video screen

Unresearched area: measuring instruments Internet: Murthy, V Krishna. Assessment of Traffic Noise Pollution in Banepa, a Semi-Urban Town of Nepal. 14 August, 2008. www.ku.edu.np/kuset/fourth_issue/orginal/2%20vkm-edited.pdf Paraphrase: The loudness was measured with the aid of a portable precision digital sound level meter (Model-CEL-231, made in England).   Time Taken: 5 minutes Library: unable to find

Thesis statement:How many people are infected by AIDS?

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and AIDS have claimed the lives of more than 22 million persons worldwide, including more than 500,000 persons in the United States.

K.A. Fenton; R.O. Valdiserri. Twenty-Five Years of HIV/AIDS — United States, 1981-2006 [Online]:11/19 2008 http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/534047

Time taken:5 minutes. unable to get the information from library.

Preservatives As is said that except the food grown in your own garden, all food products have preservatives. Every manufacturer adds preservative to the food during processing. The purpose is generally to avoid spoilage during the transportation time.Food Additives.Preservatives. online.12 Nov 08.
http://www.foodadditivesworld.com/preservatives.html

Thesis statement: What are the 3 major causes of extinction?

What is extinction?

Extinction is the process in which groups of organisms die out. If over an extended period of time the birth rate of a species is less than the death rate, then extinction will eventually occur.
Library

Time: 15 mins

One of them is global warming

Global warming

Statement: Changes in both temperature and weather especially precipitation are big factors of climate change that could easily affect sepcies and could lead to their extinction.

Sensitivity to weather makes other species vulnerable to climate change. Two kinds of climate change could cause extinctions, long-term trends in climatic means and increased climatic variability.

Internet

Time: 5 minutes
” Climate change hasetens population extinctions” PNAS [Internet] 28, Aug 2008, http://www.pnas.org/content/99/9/6070.full?sid=33e5c7de-eed0-4ef8-838a-d203d9c4b288