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ITAS110

INFORMATION LITERACY – 27.02.2014

Tanatsirwa Masenda
tanatsirwam@mgi.ac.za
 Chapter 7 – pages 109 - 117
In this chapter you will learn;
1. How to organise information on your
computer
2. How to retrieve information on your
computer
3. The importance of organising and
retrieving information on your
computer

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 How to organise information on your
computer
• How to organise information in folders:
• Decide on a folder structure: create main folders and
different sub folders – ensure that you hierarchy is not too
deep as it will entail too many clicks to find relevant
information
• How to use taxonomies to organise folders:
classifying information in categories and groups

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 How to retrieve information on your computer

• There is a tool that will help you easily retrieve

information on your computer:
• Desktop search engine: a desktop search
engine will help you find and retrieve the
information that you need

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 The importance of organising and retrieving
information on your computer
• It helps you manage your information more
effectively and efficiently
• You can save and retrieve your information easily
– it will enable you to do your work better
• Ensure to save downloaded information in the
correct folder immediately
• To easily find your information browse the folder
structures you have created
• You can easily find and retrieve your information
by using the search engine

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 Chapter 8 – pages 118- 133
In this chapter you will learn;
1. What is ethics
2. What are patents and trademarks
3. What is copyright
4. What is plagiarism

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 What is ethics?
• Ethics is a the study of morality and how to distinguish
right from wrong
• Information ethics: it looks at moral values in the
information field – deals with ethical information on the
Internet
• The right to privacy – the right to keep personal information
private
• The right of access to information – the public rights to all
types of information
• The right to information production – there are no rights
to ideas, but you can be granted rights when you write down
the idea
• The right to intellectual property – refers to creative ideas
and expressions of the human mind and intellect – it covers
copyrights, patents and trademarks

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 What are patents and trademarks?

• Patents and trademarks: the exclusive rights of the

holders of patents and trademarks mean they can
prevent others from doing or using something
• Patents: concern new and useful inventions - it grants the
inventor of a product the sole right to make, use and sell an
invention for a limited period
• Trademarks: signs which uniquely identify the commercial origin
of products or services – a registered trademark is a trademark
that is officially registered and legally protected

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 What is copyright

• Copyright: the legal, exclusive right

that is granted to copyright owners to
regulate the use of their intellectual
creation for a limited period of time
• Conditions or elements that apply
to copyright:
• It is a right that in the first instance
accrues to the author or creator – the
author is the owner of the copyright and is
the one who can enforce the copyright

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 • The work in which copyright vests must be
original – it must be a new and original
idea that has not been used or published
before
• The work must be in material form – there
is no copyright in ideas only, the must be
written down
• Copyright infringement: when
anyone performs an action which may
legally only be performed by the
holder of the copyright – the
unauthorised use or illegal copying of
work
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 • Copyright in the electronic environment:
• Software copyright – illegally using and creating
unauthorised copies of software (software piracy)
• Copyright law and changing technology –
making unauthorised copies of computer and console
games (CDs, DVDs and MP3s) may not be
downloaded for the internet
• Internet copyright – published work on the
internet is available for free but cannot be copied
and used without permission

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 What is plagiarism

• Plagiarism: presenting or using someone

else’s published or unpublished ideas or
intellectual products without acknowledging or
crediting the source of your information
• How to avoid plagiarism:
• Use your own work
• Only use referenced word-for-word quotations
• Do not just make cosmetic changes to source materials
• Use paraphrasing correctly

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 Chapter 9 – pages 135- 153

In this chapter you will learn;

1. What is referencing
2. What type of referencing to use

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 What is referencing
• Referencing: giving relevant, accurate and
complete information indicating and
acknowledge which source(s) you used for
writing an assignment or research report
(citing or citation)
• Reference list – an alphabetical list at the end of
your document which contains detailed descriptions
of all the sources you used
• Bibliography – another name for reference list and
serves the same function, it can also be a list of
information sources that you may have used in
preparing the assignment

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 What type of referencing to use
• Harvard referencing – involves using the authors
name, date of publication and page or pages where
information was found
• MLA referencing (Modern Language Association)
– similar to Harvard referencing
• Vancouver style referencing – mostly used in the
biomedical environment
• APA style referencing – mostly used in the
psychological environment
• Oxford referencing – involves footnotes and endnotes

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