Unit Ten Assignment

1.  This student receives a grade of ONE (1). This student mixed his own ideas with the author’s ideas. He had 4 quotes from the original text but did not really attempt to explain them at all. They were just listed. He began with his own ideas but then continued by presenting quotes. He did not even attempt to combine his ideas with the quotes he used. He quoted the page number that his info came from at the end of his paragraph. The source is documented but indicates that it came from pages 46-53 when the original text only states page 46.
2. This student receives a grade of TWO (2). This student mixed his own ideas with the author’s ideas. He presented some information from the original text but mostly all in his own wording. There was an occasional attempt to discriminate.  The voice of the writer is heard. After he discussed the author words, he began to relate it something else but giving an example. However this other example was not cited. Page number was in student’s text after information from source was stated. The source is documented but indicates that it came from pages 46-53 when the original text only states page 46.
3. This student receives a grade of NEGATIVE ONE (-1). This student had inadequate documentation and his citations were a bit unclear. Information that barely relates to original work was stated. It seems as if this student was very biased. It was impossible to determine what was the students own words and what information was obtained from a source. No indication of what is what because nothing was cited in the actual text. It seems as if there were two citations, however as mentioned earlier, it was hard to tell which one was used when. No parenthetical citation was present in students work.
4. This student receives a grade of NEGATIVE Three (-3). This student just summarizes the original text in whole. No use of students own work or words. He used the work of someone else as his ideas without giving them credit. No citations were provided in text or after. There is a clear intention that the reader wanted others to believe that the work provided was his own but it is not.
5. This student receives a grade of THREE (3). This student made it possible to distinguish his own words from the original source. He mentioned the original source by the authors name. Material was presented accurately and in a way that indicated that the student understood the original text. However, it was a little bit hard to understand how what was mentioned earlier from the original source and the students own work to was being said at the end. The source of the material was not distorted. The information was cited properly, but the page numbers were also different, original text states page 46. This students work states pages 46-53.

UNIT NINE ASSIGNMENT

PART ONE:

1. Anderson, T.D. (2006), “Uncertainty in action: observing information seeking within the creative processes of scholarly research”, Information Research, Vol. 12 No. 1, available at: http://InformationR.net/ir/12-1/paper283.html (accessed 24 December 2006).

·         This is a website

·         I would copy the URL and paste it in the search bar of my web browser and search the open web

·         This item is available online using the provided URL.

2. Belkin, N.J. (1980), “Anomalous states of knowledge as a basis for information retrieval”, Canadian Journal of Information Science, Vol. 5, pp. 133-43.

·         This is an article in a journal

·         I would look under the “Find a Journal at WSU” tab to see if WSU owns this item

·         WSU does not have this item electronically. I was not even able to locate it anywhere. I found the journal it is in, but much newer volumes.

3. Bilal, D. (2000), “Children’s use of the Yahooligans! Web search engine: I. Cognitive, physical and affective behaviors on fact-based search tasks”, Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Vol. 5 No. 7, pp. 646-65.

·         This is an article in a journal

·         I would look under the “Find a Journal at WSU” tab to see if WSU owns this item

·         WSU has this item electronically. I clicked on the Wiley Option which is the publishers interface and the journal was located, then the article was located within that journal

4. Case, D. (2007), Looking for Information: A Survey of Research on Information Seeking, Needs and Behavior, 2nd ed., Academic Press, Amsterdam.

·         This is a Book

·         I would use the Griffin catalog on the library home page and do a title search for the book in the entire collection and see if WSU owns a copy of the book.

·         WSU-Vancouver campus does not have it. We would need to request it from the Pullman campus

5. Chowdhury, G.G. (2004), “Access and usability issues of scholarly electronic publications”,

In Gorman, G.E. and Rowland, F. (Eds), Scholarly Publishing in an Electronic Era. International

Yearbook of Library and Information Management, 2004/2005, Facet Publishing, London,

pp. 77-98.

·         This is a chapter in a book

·         I used the Griffin catalog on the library home page and did a title search for the book in the entire collection

·         WSU does not have this item electronically so I will need to request it through ILLiad.

PART TWO

1.      Cook-Deegan, Robert , The Gene Wars: Science, Politics, and the Human Genome, W.W. Norton, 1994.

·                     This is a Book

·                     I would use the Griffin catalog on the library home page and do a title search for the book in the entire collection and see if WSU owns a copy of the book.

·                     WSU-Vancouver campus does not have it. We would need to request it from the Pullman campus

2.      “Biotechnology and Genetics: Breaking Nature's Limits,” The Economist, Feb. 25, 1995.

·         This is an Article in a Journal

·         I would look under the “Find a Journal at WSU” tab to see if WSU owns this item

·         WSU had a link for the actual Journal. I searched for the article by its title and found it.

3.      Cotton, Paul , “High-tech assault on HIV: Gene therapy,” JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, Oct. 26, 1994, p. 6. 

·                     This is an Article found in a database

·                     I  looked under the “Database” tab on the library’s home page and then clicked on  Academic Search Complete ‘EBSCO HOST’ to see if WSU owns this item

·                     WSU had a link for the article in the EBSCO HOST database. The full text is found online.

PART THREE

·         Name: Current Gene Therapy: the international journal for in-depth reviews on gene therapy

·         Content Type: Academic / Scholarly

·         Refereed / Peer-reviewed. Found under Additional Title Details - Key Features

·         Database that can be used to search for more information from this journal is EBSCO HOST that can be found through the databases from the WSU-V library website

PART FOUR

            I am not going to lie, this assignment was a lot of work, and most of it came in the time that it took to find what I needed. I have never once gone back and found an article, book, periodical or anything by its citation. This is the first time that I have ever done that. And I must admit, It was interesting to see that it is possible. I have always looked at the citations and thought to myself, there is no way I can find what I need just by looking at the citation. However, I can now say that I can. I have learned to distinguish between an article, a periodical, a book and a book chapter just by looking at the citation given. Using what I have learned from this class already, I was able to put things together and get this assignment done. 

Unit Eight Assignment

PART ONE:

1. Digiusto, D. L., & Kiem, H. (2012). Current translational and clinical practices in hematopoietic   cell and gene therapy. Cytotherapy.14(7), 775-790. Doi:10.3109/14653249.2012.694420

Theme: In this article Digiusto and Kiem talk about the history of Gene Therapy and what they have discovered about it as well as what kind of results scientists have discovered. In this specific article, they review recent progress in hematopoietic cell and Gene Therapy, describe some of the current issues facing the field of discuss clinical, technical and regulatory approaches used to navigate the road to product development.

Audience: The authors have written this article for librarians but it is useful for other educators and for students as well.

Relevance: This article answers my question by responding to the aspect of what they have discovered about Gene Therapy and what kind of results they have obtained and how well they can take those results and use them to help cure some forms of cancer.

Evaluation:

·                     Credibility/ Authority:
DiGiusto, David L: Department of Virology and Laboratory for Cellular Medicine, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, California, USA
Kiem, Hans-Peter: Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Departments of Medicine and Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA

·                     Accuracy: The information is used by librarians and others seeking to support student learning in the research process.

·                     Reliability/objectivity: This certain article is found on the EBSCOhost Database as well as many other peer reviewed journals.

·                     Currency: This article was published in August of 2012

·                     Scope/Purpose:  This information applies to professors, students and anybody else that is interested in General information about Gene Therapy, its background, it’s history, what it is, and how it could help transform lives. 

2. Parker, M. A. (2011). Biotechnology in the treatment of sensorineural hearing loss: Foundations and future of hair cell regeneration. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 54(6), 1709-1731. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/964190444?accountid=14902

Theme: In this article, the author Mark Parker provides an overview of the methodologies involved in the field of hair cell regeneration. He then presents a review of stem cell and gene therapy and provides a critical appraisal of their application to hair cell regeneration. He indicated that his work had led to new methods of regenerating cochlear hair cells in mammals. However, mammalian hair cell regeneration using stem cell and gene therapy are years -- if not decades -- away from being clinically feasible.

Audience: The author has written this article for librarians but it is useful for other educators and for students as well.

Relevance: This article helps talk about how Gene Therapy could be used like stem cells in regenerating hair cells in mammals.

Evaluation:

·                     Credibility/ Authority:
Mark Allen Parker: Assistant Professor, Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, Tufts University. He holds a PhD and is a part of the Otolaryngology/Head & Neck Surgery, Clinical Medicine community.

·                     Accuracy: The information is used by librarians and others seeking to support student learning in the research process.

·                     Reliability/objectivity: This certain article is found on, ProQuest and EBSCOhost Databases as well as many other peer reviewed journals.

·                     Currency: This article was published in August of 2011.

·                     Scope/Purpose:  This information applies to professors, students and anybody else that is interested in General information about Gene Therapy, and how it could be used to help regenerate mammalian hair cells.

3. Donegan, C. (1995, December 8). Gene therapy's future. CQ Researcher, 5, 1089-1112. Retrieved from http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/

Theme: In this article, the author Craig Donegan talks about how gene therapy could be beneficial in today’s society and today’s health. He talks about both how it could help reverse over 4000 gene mutations and saving people’s lives to it being wrong because now scientists see themselves as godlike because they are tempering with God’s plan. He also discusses a specific case about a 3 month old infant who had Canavan’s disease which is a rare genetic malady that gradually destroys the brain, paralyzing and blinding its young victims where most die before the age of 11 and how her parents turned to the future of gene therapy to save their little girl. He also addresses how researchers have become increasingly frustrated over the number of hurdles that they must clear before undertaking any clinical trials. He also stated that some researchers argue that the regulations that control experiments on human subjects have unnecessarily slowed progress in treating deadly diseases.

Audience: The author has written this article for librarians but it is useful for other educators and for students as well.

Relevance: This article talks discusses what researchers think about the regulations that are currently holding them back from moving forward in their research with their gene therapy and how it could possibly save many lives.

Evaluation:

·                     Credibility/ Authority:
Craig Donegan: is a staff writer for CQ Researcher, a weekly news and research publication of Congressional Quarterly.

·                     Accuracy: The information is used by librarians and others seeking to support student learning in the research process.

·                     Reliability/objectivity: This certain article is found on CQ Researcher Database as well as many other peer reviewed journals.

·                     Currency: This article was published in December of 1995.

·                     Scope/Purpose:  This information applies to professors, students and anybody else that is interested in General information about Gene Therapy, and how it could be used to save lives as well as about the regulations that are holding researchers back from moving forward.

PART TWO:

The article I am choosing for this part is Gene Therapy’s Future. That is the third article I have found and in the CQ Researcher database. It is one of the articles from Part one of this assignment. The citation of this article is

Donegan, C. (1995, December 8). Gene therapy's future. CQ Researcher, 5, 1089-1112. Retrieved from http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/

PART THREE:

This assignment was very interesting. I never thought about the fact there are many different views on a specific topic. That is what I found out from this assignment. I used 3 different subject specific databases to obtain information about my topic of “Gene Therapy”. This has opened my eyes and made me realize that there are many different viewpoints about I’m sure everything there is out there. I will definitely use this technique next time I have to do research in order to explore my options and come up with the best information I can find to write a great research paper that states all different viewpoints about my topic. 

Unit Seven Assignment

“BIOSIS”

Disciplines: Index to articles from biological and biomedical journals

Content: Contains mostly abstracts, however, a copy of the full text can be obtained from the “Find it @ WSU” tab

Interface: 3 search bars and more if needed by pressing on the “Add another field” button. Just like what we did with our Boolean assignment, after each search bar, we had the option of choosing AND, OR, or NOT. These are to help us narrow down our research.

v  No specific intended audience. This information appears to everyone or anyone researching for scientific information on a specific topic. However, some of the articles from the search results may be more science heavy than others.

v  This database mostly consists of articles.

v  The source of material in this database comes from journals and magazines.

v  This database covers information from 1969 to present day research

v  There are a lot of point of views that are covered, however, there is no bias.

v  You can mark any specific article that you believe could be useful or just attracts your attention and can place it in the ”Marked List” and can come back to it later.

v  A HELP button is available and it provides information about the results and what kind of data may be included. It provides ways to refine your research, help analyzing the data and more.

Reflection: I am a biology major and have had to write many scientific papers whether they were research papers of lab write up. I have used this database many times to help me with my papers because it is simple to use and have found it to contain a lot of valuable information. This was an interesting assignment because I have never gone in detail with this database. I just normally look for what I need and call it good. But this process has helped me find out more information about this database and what it is all about. All these assignments that we are doing with databases have helped me a lot. Too bad I did not take this class my first year here at this University because I know I would have benefited a lot from it.  

Unit Six Assignment

My Research Question is “How could Gene Therapy be used to treat cancer?”

The main concepts are “Gene Therapy”, Treat and cancer.

The alternative search terms are:

Gene Therapy= Carrier, Genetically modified, Genetic engineering

Treat= Care, cure, heal

Cancer= Disease, sickness

Use the Academic Search Complete thesaurus to find subject terms for each concept:

Gene Therapy – “Gene Expression”, “Genetic Transformation”, “Cancer Treatment”

Treat – Patients, “Medical care”   

Cancer – Disease, tumors   

Search Statement <”Gene Therapy” AND Treatment AND Cancer

Digiusto, D. L., & Kiem, H. (2012). Current translational and clinical practices in hematopoietic   cell and gene therapy. Cytotherapy.14(7), 775-790. Doi:10.3109/14653249.2012.694420

Theme: In this article Digiusto and Kiem talk about the history of Gene Therapy and what they have discovered about it as well as what kind of results scientists have discovered. In this specific article, they review recent progress in hematopoietic cell and Gene Therapy, describe some of the current issues facing the field of discuss clinical, technical and regulatory approaches used to navigate the road to product development.

Audience: The authors have written this article for librarians but it is useful for other educators and for students as well.

Relevance: This article answers my question by responding to the aspect of what they have discovered about Gene Therapy and what kind of results they have obtained and how well they can take those results and use them to help cure some forms of cancer.

Evaluation:

• Credibility/ Authority:
  DiGiusto, David L: Department of Virology and Laboratory for Cellular Medicine, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, California, USA
  Kiem, Hans-Peter: Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Departments of Medicine and Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
• Accuracy: The information is used by librarians and others seeking to support student learning in the research process.
• Reliability/objectivity: This certain article is found on the EBSCOhost Database as well as many other peer reviewed journals.
• Currency: This article was published in August of 2012
• Scope/Purpose:  This information applies to professors, students and anybody else that is interested in General information about Gene Therapy, its background, it’s history, what it is, and how it could help transform lives. 

Unit Five Assignment

Does television advertising by the pharmaceutical industry have an impact on prescription drug abuse?

To me, search topics/subjects would be

television

advertising

pharmaceutical industry

impact, 

prescription

medicine

drug 

abuse 

Ways I could look it up would be

-----"television advertising" AND "pharmaceutical industry" AND "drug abuse"

-----advertise* AND prescription AND abuse

-----television AND impact AND "drug abuse"

-----advertising AND impact AND "drug abuse"

-----"pharmaceutical industry" OR prescription AND abuse

-----advertising AND medicine AND abuse

Debate the pros and cons of fish farming

To me, search topics/subjects would be

Debate

Discuss*

Argue

Pro(s)

Con(s)

Benefit*

Disadvantage*

“fish farming”

Fish*

Farm*

Aquaculture

Ways I could look it up would be

-----Benefit* AND Disadvantage AND "fish farming"

-----Debate AND Benefit* AND “fish farming”

-----Debate AND Disadvantage AND "fish farming"

-----Discuss AND pros/cons AND "fish farming"

-----Argue AND pros/cons AND Aquaculture

-----Discuss AND Benefit* AND Aquaculture

-----Debate AND Aquaculture AND Fish*

  

Is a Vegetarian diet healthier than a meat-based diet?

To me, search topics/subjects would be

Compare

Contrast

Vegetarian

diet

health*

meat

herbivore

Carnivore

Ways I could look it up would be

-----vegetarian AND meat AND diet

-----compare AND vegetarian AND meat

-----contrast AND vegetarian AND meat

-----diet AND herbivore AND carnivore

-----vegetarian AND diet AND health

-----meat AND diet AND health

Unit Four Assignment

Griffin

•             Electronic Reference

                        Title: Muscle Gene Therapy

                        Location: WSU Internet All – WSU

                        Call Number: RC925.5 .M87 2011

                        Status: On-line

                        ASAP:

                                    Age: Reproduced in 2011

                                    Sources: Not listed

                                    Author: Duan, Dongsheng, Professor in Medical Research at University of Missouri

                                    Publisher: Humana Press

                        List of words: Muscles, Diseases, Gene therapy

                                   

• Book

                        Title: Engineering bacterial cytosine deaminase for efficient production of 5FU for cancer gene therapy

                        Location: WSU Owen

                        Call Number: WSU B35 2006 F83

                        Status: On Shelf

                        ASAP:

                                    Age: 2006

                                    Sources: “Includes bibliographical references.”

                                    Author: Michi Fuchita

                                    Publisher: Not listed

                        List of words: Cancer, Gene therapy, Chemotherapy

• E-Book

                        Title: Viral Vectors for Gene Therapy

                        Location: WSU Internet All – WSU

                        Call Number: RB155.8 .V57 2011

                        Status: On-Line

                        ASAP:

                                    Age: 2011

                                    Sources: “Includes bibliographical references and index.”

                                    Authors: Otto-Wilhelm Merten, Mohamed Al-Rubeai

                                    Publisher: Not listed

                        List of words: Gene therapy, Virus-Vector Relationships  

Summit

•             Book

                        Title: Human Gene Therapy

                        Location: Summit Library

                        Call Number: Not Listed but ISBN is (0674414802 9780674414808 0674414705 978067441470)

                        Status: Book through Summit Library

                        ASAP:

                                    Age: 1988

                                    Sources: Listed in book

                                    Author: Eve K Nichols

                                    Publisher: Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press

                        List of words: Gene therapy, Gene therapy-moral and ethical aspects, Gene therapy-government policy-united states, children-genetic disorders-diagnosis & therapy, Genetic Diseases, Inborn-therapy-congresses, Genetic Engineering-congresses. 

Unit Three Assignment

Week Three Assignment ~ Background Searching on the WWW

Please post your work in your Research Journal/Blog

Since the goal of background research is to get an idea about the scope of your topic and to gather a vocabulary to use for search terms to use later in the library catalog and databases that is what you will look for in your web searches this week. Please document your experience/ answers to ALL of the prompts in the following questions/directions. You will find the assignment will go smoothest if you read through the entire UC Berkley site first, then print the assignment, and have the Berkley site open as you work through the assignment.

First: What is your research topic?

1. Select a Search Engine and run a search for your topic. Tell me the search engine you used and what noteworthy features appeal to you about this search engine.

·         Scan a few webpages from your search and:

o    Make a note of any new ideas or information you found.

o    List words that might be used for future searches. Be sure to include at least one DISTINCTIVE term, one BROAD term, one NARROW term and one RELATED term.

I used Google; the main noteworthy feature that appealed to me is how it highlights what I typed in the search bar. It also had links to images, YouTube videos, news, etc. It found almost 38,000,000 results in less than half a second and listed Wikipedia as the first result which is an encyclopedia. The US Berkeley site noted that this search engine has what is called a PageRank which is a system that includes hundreds of factors, emphasizing pages most heavily linked from other pages as well as that is has many additional databases including book search, scholar (journal articles), blog search, patents, images and more.

Word(s) to use for future searches

Distinctive: Adenovirus Vector

Broad: Gene Therapy 

Narrow: Single Gene mutation

Related: Biology/Bioethics 

2. Select a meta-search engine from the tutorial and run the same search there.

·         What do you notice that is different about the results? What is the same?

·         What is your impression of this tool?

It found fewer results and did not even list all of them. It displayed the top 168 of the almost 21,000,000 it retrieved. The meta-search engine I used was Yippy.com and the main difference I've noticed on the left hand side of the page. It was a box that had 4 different tabs. The first tab was clouds which separated the results by categories such as cancer, scientific, clinical, research, market, etc., followed by sources, sites, and time. These 4 different tabs would allow me to narrow down my research to a specific factor. For example if I wanted to find something recent, I would use the time tab and go from there. If I wanted a non-profit organization or an educational site, or anything else, I would use the sites tab and go from there. The main thing that was the same as Google was how this meta-search engine (Yippy.com) highlighted what I had typed in the search bar (Gene Therapy). It also had other links to news, images, blogs, etc.

I really like this meta-search engine. I think it will be helpful in helping me narrow down my results or even help me discover things that I didn't think of when doing my research which I can also add to my research paper. I will definitely use this source more now that I am aware of its existence.

3. Do a web search for a subject directory on the discipline your topic represents using the directions in the tutorial for “How to Find Subject-Focused Directories for a Specific Topic, Discipline, or Field”.

·         What is the name of the directory you found? Do a search for your topic in the directory.

·         Scan a few webpages from your search and:

o    Make a note of any new ideas or information you found.

o    List words that might be used for future searches. Be sure to include at least one DISTINCTIVE term, one BROAD term, one NARROW term and one RELATED term.

·         How did searching the subject directory differ from your search engine/meta-search engine searches?

The subject directory I used was Yahoo directory.

I never really used Yahoo for anything other than just checking email. I was not aware of anything such as Yahoo Directory to be honest. Before I did a search for my topic, this directory had different “databases” that I could choose from to make my research easier such as different categories like Arts and Humanities, Business, Health, Entertainment, News and media, and much more. I clicked on the Health “database” because I believe that my topic (Gene Therapy) would best fit this area. Once I clicked on this “database”, I was offered with a lot more categories I could choose from for my research, but I didn't choose any of them, I just typed “Gene Therapy” in the search bar and was offered with almost 8,000,000 results. This directory just like the search engine Google and the meta-search engine Yippy also highlighted my topic; it also had different links to images, videos, blogs and more. This directory had listed other topics for me to try which I thought would be helpful when doing my research. This could help me find the invisible college. It also had links to related searches I could try, it gave me an option to filter by time between the present and the past, and on the right hand side of the page it had ads that were related to the topic that was researched. The difference in this directory with the search and meta-search engines I believe was how this had categories for me to choose from before I had typed my topic in the search bar. I think this way; it narrowed my topic down and would have made it easier for me to find the information that I need.

Word(s) to use for future searches

Distinctive: Adenovirus Vector

Broad: Gene Therapy 

Narrow: Single Gene mutation

Related: Biology/Bioethics 

4. Follow the directions under the “Invisible or Deep Web” link to find a database/ deep web information source on your topic. You will likely need to use a broad term to get good results. Continue to broaden your terms until you find something you might use. Please give me the URL and tell me your impression of this process.

I clicked on the Find Articles link and it led me to site that had many different databases such as articles by subject, general articles, news, books, etc. I clicked on General Article Databases and it too had a page that was full of databases. I then clicked on the Academic Search Complete but it required a username and password to log in and I don’t have that information. So, I tried Google Scholar instead. That I have used before and I liked. I typed in my topic (Gene Therapy) because it is very broad as is. The following is a link to the results that Google Scholar had provided me with when I searched Gene Therapy. http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=Gene+therapy&btnG=&as_sdt=1%2C48&as_sdtp=

What I like about Google Scholar is that it doesn't just display articles from universities, it also has research papers that were written by scientists in the form of a PDF file which allows me to view the full text. There are a couple of problems with finding articles that belong to universities. A main problem is that if you are not a student at that university, you can not access the article without a login. Another problem is that a lot of the times, you have to pay or subscribe in order to view the whole article. But here is an free PDF article that I found on Gene Therapy. http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=Gene+therapy&btnG=&as_sdt=1%2C48&as_sdtp

5. Evaluation- You read some criteria last week on how to evaluate information in general with some additional suggestions for websites. This week you read about evaluation of websites in particular. Please respond to each of the points below in your evaluation of a website of your choice.

Select One website that relates to your topic and evaluate it according to the techniques and questions in the tutorial.

I decided to go with the search engine (Google) and used the search bar to type in my topic (Gene Therapy)

a.   What did you learn from the URL? Think about – personal page, domain, publisher

http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/tech/genetherapy/

This is the URL of the website I am using. This is not a personal page. It is an educational page that belongs to the University of Utah. It is the main page to all the information needed to explain what Gene Therapy is and what it’s used for and what not. It also has additional resources in order to obtain more information about the topic.

b. Scan the page for:

·         Information about the sponsors/authors of the page. Is there an “about us” link?

·         Is there a “date last updated”?

·         Are there any author names, either individual or organizational?

·         What are the author’s credentials?

·         Can you tell if the page has been updated?

o    No main authors of this page. It seems that it is run by the Genetic Science learning center of the University of Utah. However it does have an about us link on the top of the page that includes the address of the university, a phone number and a feedback email link.

o    No specific date other than the year 2013

o    No author name(s), it just concludes that all of the information on the website is by the Genetic science learning center.

o    No author credentials

o    No I cannot tell if the page has been updated or not unfortunately.

c. Does the page have quality information?

·         Are information sources documented with footnotes or links?

·         If information is from another source is it complete, altered, or forged?

There are no main footnotes. However the page does seem to have quality information. The website specifies that the information is supported by a Science Education Partnership Award from the national center for research resources which is a component of the National institutes of health.

d. Use alex.com to see what other webpages link to this page. (the directions are in the tutorial)

·         Are the links to your page from reputable pages/institutions/authors?

·         Google the author and see what others say about him/her.

Using the site alexa.com, it showed that the global rank for this website is 8,881 which in comparison to how many other websites there are in the World Wide Web and that is pretty good. Its U.S. ranking is 2,407. That rank too is unbelievable to how many websites were made and are visited here in the United States.

e. Does it all add up?

·         What is your impression of the page overall?

·         Why was the page put on the web?

·         Is it irony, satire, or parody?

·         Does it seem as credible as information in books, journals, textbooks?

I really like this website that is provided by the University of Utah. It seems like it is quality information considering the fact that it is supported by a Science Education Partnership Award from the national center for research resources which is a component of the National institutes of health. That alone says a lot about the site. And again, it is the site to a major university here in the country. It wouldn't have false information on it.  The site was put up to help educate others about this topic of Gene Therapy. It includes all there is to know about it as well as other related resources. I Do not believe it is an irony, satire, or a parody. It is an educational source. And yes I do believe that it does seem as a credible source. It has information that I had found in other journals as well as books. This website also has a Cite this page link.

6. Finally, what did you learn this week that you will use in the future when you search the web?

I have actually learned  a lot this week from doing this week’s assignment. I have found out about other ways of looking for information about a topic I want to do research on. I have learned that there was such a thing as an invisible college. I didn't know about it but now that I do, it does make sense to me. I now know what a meta-search engine is and how to use it as well as how beneficial it would be to my research.