Research Skills and Source Evaluation

The assignment focuses on research skills, including source evaluation using the CRAAP model, and paraphrasing techniques. It also includes tasks on academic paragraphs and a conclusion. The assignment is designed to help students develop their critical thinking and research skills.

SKILLS AND RESEARCH
MODULE

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Task 2...............................................................................................................................................1
Source evaluation...................................................................................................................1
Task 4...............................................................................................................................................2
Paraphrasing...........................................................................................................................2
Task 5...............................................................................................................................................2
Academic paragraphs.............................................................................................................2
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
The research skill program covers the detailed evaluation of the source by using CRAAP.
Along with it the module will address the importance of paraphrasing that give a difference
between effective and poor paraphrasing.
Task 2
Source evaluation
Rise In Globalism Doesn't Mean The End For Nationalists
The source can be evaluated by CRAAP test that stands for; Currency, Relevance,
Authority, Accuracy and Purpose.
 The information on www.theconversation.com was published on August 11, 2017
at 10.59 am. The footer of the website tells that the site is authentic as it has
copyright. This independent news and commentary site was launch in March
2011.
 The information looks relevant and give detailed information about what is
globalisation and the information contains relevant statistics that ensure that it is
relevant and well researched (Rise in globalism doesn’t mean the end for
nationalists, 2019).
 The information is given by the author named as A. Burcu Bayram, who is
assistant professor of Political Science at University of Arkansas. The author
name links to a personal website with scientific credentials. The information
contains necessary sources but there is no actual proof that they have. The website
have n numbers of partnership with many universities such as CSIRO, Monash
University, etc. This source use .com that state that it is a business or commercial
site.
 The information is provided without any referencing, citations and the sources
that given are from many years back such as the survey of world value is from
2010-2014. The site state that they are owned by The conversion media trust, a
non-profit organisation but there are many partners who gave initial funding
support to the website: CSIRO, University of Melbourne, etc.
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 The purpose of the content is to show that global citizenship and nationalism are
not mutually exclusive and along with it the information state the rising in global
citizenship by primary and secondary research.
Task 4
Paraphrasing
It had been stated by a current survey that strong team ethos is the main reason behind
organisational success and organisation should implement various strategies that help in build
team effectively. It can be seen by the survey that millennials are more likely want to work in
those organisations that value them (Kantor, 2018). The survey conducted by PWC that give a
percentage around 88 millennials who want that enterprise that reflect their own and 86
percentage of millennials are not satisfied the employer because their organisational
responsibilities not more meet their expectations. The purpose of the research or survey is to
show problems such as; gender diversity, sustainability and equality and wants of young
millennials. According to the research youth are more concern with personal fulfilment in their
career that result in reshaping the workplace. The research state that employees are more
productive in compare to an average workforce at purpose led organisation. It is essential for the
employer to provide a bigger picture of their vision to the employees that make them more
enthusiastic and energetic when they get to know that they are going to contribute their working
effort to a proper picture of vision (Pavlick and et. al., 2015). It had been seen that to appear
socially ethical is not enough for the business, they should implement purpose driven attitude
that can result in more empowered workforce with more energetic and dedicated performance of
employees. It is recommended to the organisation that they should team is the thing that led the
business towards the success and along with it, motivation is more important element that can
enhance the productivity of employees.
Task 5
Academic paragraphs
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence is basically the engineering and science of making intelligent
machines that are more becoming human and are able to attempts to simulate characteristics of
human sense and intelligence. It is assuming in a survey that artificial intelligence will replace
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humans in all tasks within 45 years in the organisation (Perkins, 2016). The prediction include;
machines translate languages by 2024, driving a Truck by 2027, by 2031 machines i.e. robots are
going to work in retail. PWC and OECD stated that various areas such as; education, information
and communication, technical and scientific work sector can get benefits from AI. The sectors
should involve complex, specialised task and people at workplace. Along with it, various
administrative tasks including; retail, finance, construction, etc. will also get benefit in every
process.
Overall an analysis by PWC state that AI will also create more jobs than it destroys by
replacing human intelligence as it was predicted that by 2060 Artificial Intelligence will beat
humans in every thing and in every area.
CONCLUSION
The module assessed various techniques that can be use in paraphrasing. It had been also
seen that CRAAP model is effective in evaluating sources and their authenticity. The module is
essential in researching and auditing and allow person to effectively select right source.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Kantor, S., 2018. FLUSHING THE CRAAP TEST.
Perkins, K., 2016. The CRAAP Test: An Easy & Fun Way to Evaluate Research Sources. RefME
Guest Blogger [Internet].
Pavlick, E. and et. al., 2015. Adding semantics to data-driven paraphrasing. In Proceedings of
the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th
International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long
Papers). (Vol. 1, pp. 1512-1522).
Online
Rise in globalism doesn’t mean the end for nationalists. 2019. [Online]. Available Through:
<https://theconversation.com/rise-in-globalism-doesnt-mean-the-end-for-nationalists-81463>.
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