Finding Articles

Popular Magazine:

Search Statement: privacy AND (law* or legal) AND identity

Citation: "Protect Yourself Online. (Cover Story)." Consumer Reports 77.6 (2012): 22-23. Academic Search Premier. Web. 26 May 2012.

Annotation: This seemed like a good article to observe because it covered part of the topic and added another good research term, online. It gives facts and data about current online usage and how identity could be affected by these things such as online payments, facebook, unidentified charges, etc. The article stood out to me because it is relevant, and gives a good report on what is trending now.

Scholarly Journal:

Search Statement: privacy AND (law* or legal) AND identity

Citation: Hughes, Mark. "Privacy, Sexual Identity And Aged Care." Australian Journal Of Social Issues 39.4 (2004): 381-392. Academic Search Premier. Web. 26 May 2012.

Annotation: This article caught my eye because it focused on the sexual part of identity and health care. This could be posed as a research article because it is not too broad of a topic and narrows down to the problems and recent facts of privacy. To be relevant and accurate, scholarly journals need to have correct in text citation and this article is a good representation of it.

Newspaper Article:

Search Statement: privacy AND law* and identity

Citation: Eviatar, Daphne. "Defending privacy and law enforcement." Christian Science Monitor 17 Feb. 2000: 13. Academic Search Premier. Web. 26 May 2012.

Annotation: I chose this article because it really focused on protecting identity and how the government is enforcing and defending it. It may be a little older, but all the information sounds relevant to current information. The way this article defined itself from the others was the in text direct quotes and how the information was organized.

Summary: In this unit, I examined different types of articles, and how little information differs from each other making it a different kind of source. I did learn how just a little tweak in the search statement could alter results; however most of the materials for this unit were brief refreshments.

~Kendra~