LANG 2070 - English Communication for Humanities and Social Science Studies I: Self-Reflection Task

Self Reflection on Research Tools and Process - Library Task (10%)

Why are you being asked to document & reflect on how your research process for the infographic?

• To help you think in a structured way (plan) how you do  academic research 
• Practice going beyond the skills & sources of a secondary student
• Help examine your own mindsets, skills, & habits on doing research in the Humanities & Social Sciences
• So the librarian can see a sample of how YOU do think about & do research & give you feedback to help you improve your research abilities.

Do not expect that you will do your research in a single go.   Good searching and researching will take place over days or weeks and across several tools.

This task is about PROCESS, not product. It is for you to share your on the process by which you searched for, found, and selected the information that you used in your infographic. 

Checklist for LANG2070 Reflection on Research Tools and Process (10%)

This Research Reflection is about your research process for the work on your infographic.

1. Think about your topic & what sort of data or information that will help you learn more about it & prepare your infographic & seminar presentation.
2. Think about the research tools introduced in the workshop & on the Library Guide that may help you
   1. LANG 2070 Guide - Tools https://libguides.hkust.edu.hk/lang2070/search-tools
   2. Consider the information type, what you hope to find, etc. when selecting the tools.
3. Select tools to start to use, using different ones to balance each other’s strengths and weakness.
   1.  Make notes on what you selected to use and why.
4. Do your searching & researching (not at one single go, it’s an iterative process)
   1. Use different search techniques from the pre-workshop videos & what you practiced in class.  Make notes on what techniques you use in which databases, and how the searching goes.
   2. Make notes on how you change techniques, words, and search tools (what works, what doesn’t seem to work)
   3.  Make notes on what you find & select, and how you change tools and databases.
5. Select information & data found during your research to use and reference on your infographic.
   1. Make notes on what you chose & why.
   2. Cite the information and data you use in your infographic.
6. Fill in the self-reflection form. It should be in complete sentences, with proper grammar, punctuation, etc.
7. Upload 3 items in Canvas for this assignment:

• The filled in self-reflection form.
• Image of the infographic (jpeg, png, pdf, etc. but please no links!).
• An APA-style reference list on the materials you used in your infographic poster.

Rubric for Reflection on Research Tools and Process

• Use the rubric in the word document below to see how your reflection task will be graded.
• It will be useful for you to look at it after your first draft and use it to guide your work before you submit it.

Very Good. You used and discussed several search tools, and you have begun to relate what you were searching for (including information type) with the reasons you chose the tools you did. The articles  and data you selected for your infographic showed you took care and used the tools well.

I particularly liked how you discussed how you could use the strengths of some research tools to make up for the limitations of others; how you changed techniques based on initial results; and how the different data and information sources you selected for your infographic created a strong and evidenced-based foundation for your stance (argument).

The same rules apply to the self-reflection task as to you other assignments for LANG 2070.

 *** copied from LANG 2070 Canvas site***

Good practice expected:

• Refer to the latest APA style guidelines: the blog entry dated 7 April 2023 is a very good starter: https://apastyle.apa.org/blog/how-to-cite-chatgpt

• Links to an external site.
• Other style guidelines like MLA and Chicago may require slightly different formats, but in principle all of them require THREE things to be clearly visible to the readers:

1. The prompt used for AI generation, and
2. The response of generative AI, and
3. The date of generation

Any follow-up prompts and Gen AI’s responses to them should also be clearly included.

Reminders on some principles that have never changed:

(The same applies to use of Google, Wikipedia … or any “external help” like editing service)

• Never “cite” things that you have not really read/ cannot understand. Be very carefully of references generated by AI. Our experience is that a lot of them are “hallucinated” (i.e. non-existent).
• An external source remains external even after you have processed/ edited/ summarised/ paraphrased/ “internalised” it. It still need to be acknowledged.
• If you work looks more like a collection/list of external sources, think about where your voice is and the purpose of your work.
• If your reference list has multiple entries from the same source (say, Chat GPT or Wikipedia), think about the credibility and persuasiveness of your work.
• “Your work” means “your original work”: When it comes to use of generative AI (or other forms of external help), there is only “use” or “no use” – it does not matter whether your intention is to organise ideas, to generate introduction/conclusion … or “just” to proofread.

The same rules apply to the self-reflection task as to you other assignments for LANG 2070.

 *** copied from LANG 2070 Canvas site***

Good practice expected:

• Refer to the latest APA style guidelines: the blog entry dated 7 April 2023 is a very good starter: https://apastyle.apa.org/blog/how-to-cite-chatgpt

• Links to an external site.
• Other style guidelines like MLA and Chicago may require slightly different formats, but in principle all of them require THREE things to be clearly visible to the readers:

1. The prompt used for AI generation, and
2. The response of generative AI, and
3. The date of generation

Any follow-up prompts and Gen AI’s responses to them should also be clearly included.

Reminders on some principles that have never changed:

(The same applies to use of Google, Wikipedia … or any “external help” like editing service)

• Never “cite” things that you have not really read/ cannot understand. Be very carefully of references generated by AI. Our experience is that a lot of them are “hallucinated” (i.e. non-existent).
• An external source remains external even after you have processed/ edited/ summarised/ paraphrased/ “internalised” it. It still need to be acknowledged.
• If you work looks more like a collection/list of external sources, think about where your voice is and the purpose of your work.
• If your reference list has multiple entries from the same source (say, Chat GPT or Wikipedia), think about the credibility and persuasiveness of your work.
• “Your work” means “your original work”: When it comes to use of generative AI (or other forms of external help), there is only “use” or “no use” – it does not matter whether your intention is to organise ideas, to generate introduction/conclusion … or “just” to proofread.