Week Seven in Accessing Knowledge!

11/4/08

Lecture Overview
This weeks lecture was all about End Note. End note is a database that can be used as a reference manager, or a bibliography maker. End note can be used in two ways: a standalone program or integrated into MS word. The lecture taught us all about how endnote works, and the imoprtance of using endnote. The advantage of using endnote, is that it references your sources automatically making easier for you. The lecture explained how to use endnote library and how to use it in configuration with MS word. Examples of why end note is good to use is that it:

• Keeps track of a growing number of references.
• Displays a variety of recognised styles of referencing.
• Handles a variety of types of references.
• Searchable record of references associated with a specific project.
• Can be integrated with Microsft Word.
  

Tutorial Activities

• Week sevens tutorial activities were an extention from the week seven lecture.
• We had to learn all about endnote library.
• Practice using endnote library.
• Practice inserting citations into a word document. from using the endnote library.

Activity One:
For activity one we were asked to review the online referencing guide, and list five different types of online electronic format materials.
Below is an example of my Endnote Library with five different references:

Activity Two:

For activity two we were asked to go into blackboard and complete the endnote excercises for vista.

• The first activity we had to do was add the referencing details from the table into our endnote library.


• The second activity we were required to do was to go to the website http://computer.howstuffworks.com/blog.htm

• After visiting this site we then had to reference the site and add the referencing details into our endnote library.



• The third excerice we had to complete was to go onto the ECU library and select an online journal database.

• We had to select the database by its title, and from here we then had to choose the hyperlink 'Proquest 5000 international'



• We then had to type in the search term 'The New Arab Conversation' and click the search button.



• Next we had to scroll down the page until we found the article 'The New Arab Conversation', once we found this article we had to click the box so it had a tick in it and return to the top of the page.



• After scrolling back to the top of the page we had to click on the Hyperlink tab 'My research'. Once clicked on we then had to click on another hyperlink 'export citations', next we then had to select another hyperlink 'export directly to Procite, Endnote or Reference manager'.



• Then after we had clicked on this text, we had to save the article referencing details into our previous endnote libary.

The referencing details are recorded automatically after following these points.

Activity Three:

• Activity three required us to use our endnote library references and insert them into a word document 'cite while you write endnote excercise'.


• We were required to insert 3 referencing sources, and follow the instructions displayed, telling us how we had to reference, and what was wanted in the document.
  

Reading Summary:

What is end note: EndNote is a program that can store, manage and search for references in a personal library setup by the user. End note can be used in the endnote library program or it can also be used incorporation with MS Word. The references from end note can be cited into a word document, making it an easy and effective way to reference correctly.