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Discussion 1. Exercises on library tutorials #1, #2, and
#3
Through this Library Exercise, you will practice the OneSearch
techniques covered in the Library Tutorial Videos. This will help you
understand how to find sources for assignment #2 and other
assignments. When it comes to honing your research skills for the
assignments in this course, as in all other aspects of life, practice makes
perfect!
The following tasks are designed to help you become familiar with
UMGC’s Information and Library Services. Completing these exercises
will help you get started on developing a topic for the final researchbased report.
Please watch library tutorial #1, #2, and #3. These tutorials are linked to
at the top of the list of Content items under “Learning Resources” for
Week 3. The tutorials are designed to demonstrate some searching
strategies when finding articles through OneSearch, a research tool that
allows you to search on many databases at one time.
After you have watched the tutorials, please complete the tasks
assigned to you at the end of this topic. Post your responses to this
discussion thread.
Let us assume you work for a company that is hiring more and more
employees of the Generation Z generation.
Your supervisor has asked you to conduct research on issues regarding
employees from Generation Z. For example, she mentions that
Generation Z individuals may have different expectations of the work
environment from those of workers from older generations. In addition,
she mentions that Generation Z has different habits with regard to their
use of technology than workers from older generations exhibit.
The instructions you have been given by your supervisor are quite
broad. But let us assume that this is the directive you have been given.
For this reason, you will conduct a very general search on Generation Z
and their work or technology habits. You are not quite sure how to focus
the topic, but you know that you would like to pursue this general topic
and focus it later.
Your tasks to complete in your response to this topic:
1. Using the strategies discussed in library video tutorial #1, search
on some terms and find four articles on this topic. Your search can
be quite broad at this stage. Try to use some search phrases that
require that you use quotation marks, as the video demonstrates.
Please write the topic on which you searched and the search
terms you used to search on it as part of your response to Task #1.
2. Again, using the strategies from library video tutorial #1, for the
four articles you found, please write titles of the four articles and
the journals in which they appeared. You don’t have to cite
anything in APA format, or anything of that nature. Just post the
titles and the journal names.
3. Using the strategies discussed in library video tutorial #2,
conduct a NEW search on a phrase related to your major or to a
workplace topic of interest to you. As the video demonstrates,
make sure to use quotation marks around the phrase you search
on.
-What phrase(s) did you search on?
-How many search results do you get?
4. Then, applying the tips in library video tutorial #2, focus your
search from question #3 by using the SU-subject terms option from
the drop-down menu for one of your search rows.
-How many search results do you find after limiting the search by
using SU-subject terms?
5. Finally, using the strategies mentioned in library video tutorial
#3, locate the subject guide for your major. If you have not
declared a major yet, please select one that interests you from the
options from the drop-down menu.
Review the subject guide for that major. Describe to the rest of the
class in a few sentences any interesting resources you discovered.
Tutorial #1: https://www.screencast.com/t/KgAEFMopGtCi
Tutorial #2: https://www.screencast.com/t/xrcdkroD
Tutorial #3: https://www.screencast.com/t/WGJyU6UluqCj
Discussion 2. Six Principles of Good Writing vs.
Amazon’s Memo Strategy
In the Content for Week 2 under “Learning Resources,” you should read
a resource titled “Good Writing.” In that section, Edward Bailey’s six
points of good writing are listed.
Please take note of Bailey’s six points of good writing. Then access the
following message from Jeff Bezos to shareholders at Amazon.com:
Good Writing:
https://leocontent.umgc.edu/content/umuc/tus/wrtg/wrtg394/2225/week2/read–good-writing.html
Message from Jeff Bezos to Amazon Shareholders:
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018724/000119312518121161/d45
6916dex991.htm
Please read only the section of this message titled, “Six-Page
Narratives.” You don’t have to read the whole message.
Answer the following questions related to this reading. Then post
your answers as your response to this discussion topic.
1. In banning PowerPoint and asking for six-page memos, is Jeff
Bezos violating any of Bailey’s six principles? If so, which
ones does he seem to violate, and why do you make the case
that he violates them? If not, explain why his strategy does
not violate any of the six principles.
2. Why might Bezos prefer a six-page memo read silently for 30
minutes at the beginning of a meeting to a PowerPoint
presentation? What advantage might such a memo have over
a PowerPoint presentation?
Please feel free to conduct your own searches on this issue. Various
articles have been written about Amazon’s ban of PowerPoint in its
internal meetings, and these articles have additional quotes from Bezos.
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