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Information Acquisition and Writing Skills (3 cr)

Code: 2X00CF62-3007

General information


Enrolment period
10.06.2019 - 01.11.2019
Registration for the implementation has ended.
Timing
11.10.2019 - 12.05.2020
Implementation has ended.
Credits
3 cr
Local portion
2 cr
Virtual portion
1 cr
RDI portion
1 cr
Mode of delivery
Blended learning
Unit
Music
Campus
TAMK Main Campus
Teaching languages
Finnish
Seats
6 - 45
Degree programmes
Degree Programme in Culture and Arts, Music
Degree Programme in Culture and Arts, Music
Teachers
Matti Ruippo
Johanna Granlund
Leeni Pukkinen
Person in charge
Matti Ruippo
Course
2X00CF62

Objectives (course unit)

Students can
- expand and develop their knowledge by using systematic information search and retrieval methods.
- adapt the main information search techniques to different databases and user interfaces.
- find information relating to their own field of study in a systematic and efficient manner, including material from international sources.
- find the most relevant, up-to-date, and comprehensive sources relating to their own field.
- use different types of source materials.
- use sources ethically, by observing intellectual property rights etc.
- apply critical judgment to the information found.

Students can:
- plan a writing task in advance and follow the plan throughout the writing process.
- incorporate relevant sources into their own texts in a versatile and critical manner; combine their own ideas with information from different sources in order to create a coherent and stylistically unified whole.
- write, clear, informative and grammatically accurate texts in formal style.
- follow the guidelines for writing a bachelor’s thesis laid down in TAMK’s Report Guide.
The student
- is capable of carrying out research and development projects, utilising existing knowledge in the area concerned.
- has the language skills necessary to work in his/her chosen field, and to develop the field as a whole.
- is capable of taking responsibility for his/her own actions and the consequences of these actions.
- can act in accordance with the ethical principles which apply to his/her professional field.
The Student
- is working easily in different Networks and can develope his own Acting bu Means of them.
- can set up a Network and use systems taking advanced in digitalisation
- is able to estimate the Usabillity of the Service and the Reliability of the Contents

Content (course unit)

- Systematic information retrieval and search methods to expand and develop one’s knowledge
- Basic information search techniques
- Effective information search planning and realization
- Use of different types of source materials
- Ethical use of information, e.g. how should intellectual property rights be observed
- Evaluation of information search results and source materials
- The main Finnish and international databases and information sources for the students’ fields of study

- Stages in the writing process
- The basic structure of a written text
- The conventions of academic writing
- Supporting one’s arguments
- Using sources
- Incorporating in-text references to sources
- Standard lay-out of formal documents
- Writing formal texts

- Different Network Communities
- Relialibity of Networks
- Principles of Networks
- Acting in Networks
- Developing Networks

Location and time

Tiedonhankinta:
11.10.2019 - 26.4.2020.
Lähitunnit: TAMK Pääkampus, luokka G2-38
Työpajat: Musiikkiakatemia, luokka 46

Exam schedules

Ei tenttiä.

Evaluation methods and criteria

Tiedonhankinta:
Opiskelijan tehtävänä on etsiä lähdemateriaalia omasta aiheestaan ja laatia lähdeluettelo parhaista löydöistä. Kurssi arvioidaan sopivien lähdeaineistojen käytön, tiedonhakujen laadun ja onnistumisen sekä löydettyjen relevanttien lähteiden perusteella.
Verkkoyhteisöt: osallistuminen opetukseen ja toiminta verkkoyhteisöissä sekä blogin kirjoittaminen.

Assessment scale

Pass/Fail

Teaching methods

Tiedonhankinta:
luennot, tehtävät, verkko-opiskelu, työpajatyöskentely, henkilökohtainen ohjaus tarvittaessa.
Lisäksi tiedonhankinnan kurssiin kuuluu osallistuminen kevätlukukaudella 2020 yhteen tiedonhaun työpajaan (1 h).
Työpajoihin ilmoittaudutaan Tabula-kurssilla olevan linkin kautta.
Verkkoyhteisöt:
luennot, demonstraatiot, osallistuminen verkkoyhteisön toimintaan ja blogin kirjoittaminen ja kommentointi.

Learning materials

Kurssin Tabula-alueella.

Student workload

Tiedonhankinta:
Luentoja 2 x 3 h, tiedonhaun työpaja 1 x 60 min, tehtävien tekeminen 20 h.
Verkkoyhteisöt: 12 h lähiopetusta, 12 h tehtävien tekemiseen.

Completion alternatives

AHOT
-käytänteistä jne. on sovittava opettajan kanssa erikseen.

International connections

Verkkoyhteisöt: kansainvälisen luennoitsijan etävierailu.

Assessment criteria - fail (0) (Not in use, Look at the Assessment criteria above)

Tiedonhankinta, Verkkoyhteisöt: opiskelija ei osallistu opetukseen eikä tee annettuja tehtäviä.

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