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ALP Student Survey - Spring 2016

An ongoing survey of ALP English students' perceptions of cheating.
Responses were collected from 24 students in 3 sections of APL English 0492, Spring 2016.

Academic Honesty Poll (adapted from Rittner & Khan, 2004)

  1. Have you ever been tempted to cheat on a test, homework or other school assignment? Y=75%
  2. Would you cheat if you knew you wouldn’t get caught? Y=63%
  3. Is it acceptable to cheat on something small like a pop quiz or a group assignment? Y=29%
  4. Do you think it is more acceptable to cheat on a test in a topic you don’t care about? Y=16%
  5. Would you report someone for cheating? Y=12%
  6. Which of the following is cheating (Check all that apply):
    • a. A friend lets you copy their homework because you left yours at home. Y=58%
    • b. A friend in the class before yours tells you what’s going to be on the test. Y=58%
    • c. You hand in a paper you wrote for a different class. Y=29%
    • d. A friend gives you a copy of last year’s final exam answers, which turns out to be the same exam. Y=75%
    • e.You have an open-book test and use a friend’s notes. Y=33%
    • f. You find a paper on a similar topic online and use a few sentences verbatim. Y=54%
  7. Have you ever cheated on something personal (like a diet, exercise regimen, crossword puzzle or your budget)? Y=66%
    • Did you win?

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Data Science Reading List

Ethics Mini-Lecture Bibliography

Bailey, M., Burstein, A., Claffy, KC., Clayman, S., et al. (2012) The Menlo Report: Ethical Principles Guiding Information and Communication Technology Research Retrieved October 2, 2016, from https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/CSD-MenloPrinciples...

Fontichiaro, F., Oehrli, J.A., and Lennex, A., eds. (2017). Creating Data Literate Students. Retrieved July 11, 2017, from http://dataliteracy.si.umich.edu/book/

Office for Human Research Protections. Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects. Retrieved October 3, 2016, from http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/regulations-and-policy/regulations/common-rule/

Pierson, M. (2015). Data Science for Dummies. [Safari Tech Books Version]. Retrieved from https://cod.on.worldcat.org/oclc/904046300?databaseList=638

Rijmenam, M. J. (2014). Think bigger: Developing a successful big data strategy for your business. [Safari Tech Books Version]. Retrieved from https://cod.on.worldcat.org/oclc/872564433?databaseList=638

Rudder, M. (2014). Dataclysm: Who we are when we think no one's looking. New York: Crown.

Zeller, M. (2016, May 7). OkCupid study reveals the perils of big-data science. Wired. Retrieved October 3, 2016, from https://www.wired.com/2016/05/okcupid-study-reveals-perils-big-data-scie...

Suggested Readings on Data Science and Visualization

Reference Books

Use these resources to quickly look up definitions of and information on various topics, theories, techniques and methods.

SAGE Encyclopedia of Evaluation
SAGE Encyclopedia of Measurement and Statistics
SAGE Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods

Data Visualization

Once you have gathered your data, you must organize it and present it in a clear and logical way so that you and others can understand and analyze it. This page will provide some resources to help you accomplish that task.

Readings
Data Visualization
Charts of Various Types
Infographics
Legibility and Readability
Plots and Diagrams

Books
Cool Infographics : Effective Communication with Data Visualization and Design. (2014)
Creating Data Stories with Tableau Public. (2015)
Data Literacy: A User's Guide. (2016)
Data Points: Visualization that Means Something. (2013)
Data Visualization and Infographics. (2015)
Data Visualization: Principles and Practices. (2015)
Graphing Data with R. (2015)
Infographics for Dummies. (2014)
Information Made Beautiful: Infographic Design. (2015)
Presenting Data Effectively : Communicating Your Findings for Maximum Impact. (2014)
R Data Visualization Cookbook : Over 80 Recipes to Analyze Data and Create Stunning Visualizations with R. (2015)
Tableau Your Data: Fast and Easy Visual Analysis with Tableau Software. (2016)
The Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication. (2016)
The Visual Organization : Data Visualization, Big Data, and the Quest for Better Decisions. (2014)

Data Repositories

More web resources for data science projects

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Five Thirty Eight is an excellent site that publishes data-driven articles. Many of the data sets used in the reporting on this site are available on github. View the Five Thirty Eight datasets here: https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data

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Socrata Open Data contains numerous clean data sets that are explorable in your browser using the site's visualization tools. Caution: many of these data sets are out of date but you can use Socrata to get topic ideas and use it to trace back to more current versions of the data.

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Amazon makes large data sets available on its Amazon Web Services platform. The AWS public data sets are available for free for one year when you sign up with AWS. You can download the data to your computer or do analysis using cloud-based services like Amazon's instances of AC2 or Hadoop.


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Google BigQuery Public Datasets allow for 1TB of data to be downloaded free. The collection of public data sets made available by Google are varied and eclectic, such as personal names registered via the Social Security Administration after 1879 (how many people share your name??) and the GDELT book corpus which contains data on all of the public domain books available on the Internet Archive and the Hathi Trust (like 4M books! Awesome!)

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The City of Chicago data portal contains current and historical data collected by the City government. Included are data sets on doing business in Chicago, crime statistics, health data, environmental information, and much more.

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Or just use Kaggle and go nuts. Kaggle is like social media for data nerds. Kaggle is a continuously growing collection of public data sets. It includes analysis and visualization tools, Kaggle Kernels, and you can publish your analyses of datasets on the site. Explore other users' Kernels for ideas, comment on their work, and learn data science and machine learning using the Kaggle resources. You can even enter data science competitions. Get your machine learning game on! Sign up for free. Look for attribution and rights on the site to give credit to the researchers/data compilers.
Fun stuff:
The Simpsons by the data, MTG Cards, Amazon Fine Food Reviews.

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Prairie Research

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Welcome! Click on a tab below to find books, articles, and websites for use in this course.

You'll need a College of DuPage Library card in order to use most of the resources below from off campus. If your card is not working, contact us.

Questions? Feel free to contact me, stop by the Reference Desk, or contact us by email or chat.

Want to know more about the COD library? Check out our orientation video.

Image Credit: COD Newsroom: Russell Kirt Prairie. No alterations.
  1. Prairie Books
  2. Prairie Articles and Websites
  3. Using the Archive

Books

Books can provide good research about a variety of prairie topics, including history, ecology, and related subjects.

General Prairie Books

Working on a prairie-related topic? If so, try looking through the books on the following topics. I have not listed every book we own that focuses on the prairie, but these will get you started.

Tallgrass Prairie by John Madson and Frank Oberle QH104.5.M47 M34 1993

Grassland Dynamics: Long-Term Ecological Research in Tallgrass Prairie by Alan K. Knapp. QH105.K3 G73 1998

The Ecology and Management of Prairies in The Central United States by Chris Helzer QH104.5.M47 H45 2010

Illinois Wilds by Michael R. Jeffords, Susan L. Post, Kenneth Ray Robertson. QH105.I3 J4 1995

Prairie: A Natural History by Candace Sherk Savage, David Suzuki Foundation. QH102 .S38 2011

Last Stand of the Tallgrass Prairie by Aimée Larrabee and John Altman QH104 .L33 2001

Plants of the Prairies

Prairie Plants Of The Midwest: Identification And Ecology by Russell Kirt. QK938.P7 K5 1995 (in Reference and On Reserve)

Prairie Plants Of Northern Illinois: Identification And Ecology by Russell Kirt. QK157 .K5 1989x

Prairie Establishment And Landscaping by William E. McClain, Illinois. Division of Natural Heritage., U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. QK938.P7 M24 2003

Best Groundcovers And Vines For The Prairies by Hugh Skinner, Sara Williams, Lesley Reynolds. SB432 .S552 2007

Edible Wild Plants Of The Prairie : An Ethnobotanical Guide by Kelly Kindscher. QK 98.5 .U6 K56 1987

Medicinal Wild Plants Of The Prairie: An Ethnobotanical Guide by Kelly Kindscher. E78.G73 K56 1992

Animals of the Prairies

The Prairie Gardener's Book of Bugs: A Guide to Living With Common Garden Insects by Nora Bryan, Grace Buzik, Ruth Staal. SB931 .B79 2003

Grassland Dynamics: Long-Term Ecological Research in Tallgrass Prairie by Alan K. Knapp. QH105.K3 G73 1998 *See description

The Ecology and Management of Prairies in The Central United States by Chris Helzer QH104.5.M47 H45 2010 *Includes animal info

The Russell R. Kirt Prairie

First, start by checking out the books we have that were authored by Kirt:
Plant Species And Management Plan For College Of Dupage's Marshes And Woodlands by Russell R. Kirt, College of DuPage. QK157 .K49 2000

Prairie Plants Of The Midwest: Identification And Ecology by Russell Kirt. QK938.P7 K5 1995 (in Reference and On Reserve)

Prairie Plants Of Northern Illinois: Identification And Ecology by Russell Kirt. QK157 .K5 1989x

You can also check out the Archives tab above to see what unique items appear in our collection.

The Prairie Ecology sections of the collection are QH104-105 and QH541.5. Feel free to browse our collections. However, keep in mind that plants (QK, SB) and animals (QL) have their own subject areas where you may also find interesting items...

You can also use I-Share to request books owned by other libraries in Illinois.

Finding Articles and Websites about the Prairie

Need scholarly articles about prairie topics? Try the following databases:

Science Direct is a scholarly article database. Try searching by at least two keywords. Need help? Check out this tutorial. You'll need an active library card to access it.

Academic Search Complete has a mixture of popular and scholarly articles, and has a variety of prairie-focused research.

Google Scholar indexes a variety of scholarly research about the prairie. Want to use Google Scholar to help identify what you have access to in our library? Watch this short tutorial on how to do that!

Websites

The Prairie Research Institute has good information about current prairie research.

Prairie Biotic Research, Inc. is an all-volunteer non-profit created to fund prairie research projects. You can search research projects by state, date, and topic.

The Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center (run by USGS) has reports on topics like honeybees and native polinators, wolves, and oil and natural gas development, among others.

Archives

Want to know more about the Russell Kirt Prairie on the COD campus?

More info can be found in the College Archives, including photos, documents and articles. Contact Jenny Dunbar using the Archives page to arrange a time to do research in the archives.

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Biology 1100: N. DiGiovanni

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Welcome! Click on a tab below to find books, articles, and websites for use in this course.

You'll need a College of DuPage Library card in order to use most of the resources below from off campus. If your card is not working, it may need to be reactivated.

Questions? Feel free to use my contact info to the right, stop by the Reference Desk, or contact us by email or chat

Image Credit: US Fish and Wildlife Service: Zebra mussel on native mussel
  1. Pick a Topic
  2. Find Articles
  3. Patchwriting or Paraphrasing?
  4. APA Style

Finding (and Narrowing) a Topic

Have a glimmer of a topic that you'd like to work on? Great! You'll want to work to narrow that topic a bit before you dive into the catalog and databases, or you will be swamped with results. You can try the following strategies to narrow a topic:

Still Drawing a Blank?

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The College of DuPage library has several print magazines/journals that you can browse through for inspiration. For example, try looking at headlines in:

  • American Forests
  • Mother Earth News
  • Audubon
Recent magazines and periodicals are located on the second floor of the SRC, on the right as you enter the library.

Finding Articles in Databases

Scientific research can be best found in academic databases. Here are the top two databases to look for information.

Academic Search Complete has a mixture of popular and scholarly articles on a variety of subjects. You'll want to be sure that you're using a source appropriate for class when searching.

Academic OneFile is a great place to find a mixture of scientific and popular articles as well. Just like in Academic Search premier, make sure that you're using a good source for this project while searching.

You can also skim through a couple of major popular science magazines online in order to find your first article:

Not finding what you want here? See the full list of biology databases.

Patchwriting or Paraphrase?

Confused about when you would need to cite, or where the line is drawn between paraphrasing and patchwriting? Sometimes students believe that changing one or two words from a quotation means that quotation marks are not necessary. Good paraphrasing is transformative: the writer explains the main ideas of another author in his or her own words. Paraphrasing also requires a citation.

Take a moment to look at the following sources to see definitions and good and bad examples of student writing.

Using APA Style

Find directions about how to cite your sources in APA Style on the library citation guide.

You can also always check out the Purdue OWL website, which has APA citation guides and even a sample APA paper.

Finally, you are welcome to use NoodleBib if you'd like to use a program to create and organize your citations. You must "Create a New Folder" when you use NoodleBIB for the first time. Click on "I am citing a(n):," choose the type of item you are citing, and then fill in the online form. Your bibliography will be formatted for you.

Further questions? Contact me using the information at the right of the screen.

Animal Studies

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This Research Guide was created to provide access to resources related to the multidisciplinary field of Animal Studies. While not comprehensive, this Research Guide provides links to important works related to the Animal Studies field.

Do you have suggestions for the guide? Send to Ken Orenic

Please direct questions to the Committee's Co-Chairs:
David Ouellette
Marian Kuchinski

  1. First Steps
  2. Animal Ethics and Animals in Philosophy
  3. In the News
  4. Animal Behavior and Zoology
  5. Animals in Art
  6. Animals in Literature
  7. Protection of Animals
  8. Conferences & Workshops

Bekoff, Marc. "Increasing Our Compassion Footprint: The Animals' Manifesto." Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science, vol. 43, no. 4, Dec. 2008, pp. 771-781. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1111/j.1467-9744.2008.00959.x.

Berger, John. "”Why look at Animals?” About Looking. 1st American ed. ed., New York, Pantheon Books, 1980.
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Herzog, Hal. “The Importance of Being Cute: Why We Think What We Think about Animals That Don’t Think Like Us.” Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat : Why It's so Hard to Think Straight About Animals. 1st ed. ed., New York, NY, Harper, 2010.
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Waldau, Paul. "Animal Studies in the Key of Animal Rights." Animalia, Vol 1, Issue 1, June 26, 2015

Singer, Peter. "Speciesism and Moral Status." Metaphilosophy, vol. 40, no. 3/4, July 2009, pp. 567-581. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1111/j.1467-9973.2009.01608.x.

All thoughts are equal : Laruelle and nonhuman philosophy
by John Ó Maoilearca
Available via I-Share

Animal consciousness - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
By Colin Allen & Michael Trestman

Animal rites : American culture, the discourse of species, and posthumanist theory
By Cary Wolfe
General Collection HV4708 .W65 2003

Animal rights : current debates and new directions
By Cass R. Sunstein & Martha Craven Nussbaum
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Animal rights and human obligations
by Tom Regan and Peter Singer
General HV 4711 .A56 1989

Animal Rites: Liturgies of Animal Care
By Andrew Linzey
Available via I-Share (Ordered for purchase by COD Library)

Animal rights and moral philosophy
By Paul. Waldau
General Collection HV4708 .F74 2005

Animal rights : a philosophical defence
By Mark Rowlands
General Collection HV4708 .R69 1998

City creatures : animal encounters in the Chicago wilderness
by Gavin Van Horn, David Aftandilian
General Collection QH541.5.C6 V36 2015

Dominion : the power of man, the suffering of animals, and the call to mercy
By Matthew Scully
General Collection HV4708 .S38 2002

BBC World News: HARDtalk. "Do humans discriminate against animals?"
There are parallels between discriminating against beings because of their race and sex and discriminating against animals because of their species, the philosopher Peter Singer has told BBC HARDtalk.

Thinking animals : why animal studies now?
By Keri Weil
General Collection B105.A55 W45 2012

Thinking through animals : identity, difference, indistinction
By Matthew Calarco
General Collection B105.A55 C34 2015

Vegangelical : how caring for animals can shape your faith
By Sarah Withrow King
General Collection BT746 .K565 2016

What is Posthumanism?
By Cary Wolfe
General Collection B821 .W65 2010

When species meet
By Donna Jeanne. Haraway
General Collection QL85 .H37 2008

Why animal suffering matters : philosophy, theology, and practical ethics
By Andrew Linzey
General Collection HV4708.L5644 2009

Zoontologies : the question of the animal
by Cary Wolfe
General Collection B105.A55 Z66 2003

Zoographies : the question of the animal from Heidegger to Derrida
By Matthew Calarco
General Collection B105.A55 C35 2008

H-Net News: Animal Studies
H-Net: Humanities and Social Science Online - Animal Studies, provides book reviews, conference and workshop announcements, calls for papers, and other links to news related to Animal Studies.

Finding a better way to your plate: Crate Free Illinois’ mobile app helps consumers connect with local farmers.
News article on COD Art Professor David Ouellette's work with Crate Free Illinois, which works to create awareness about the differences between traditional farmers and CAFOs – or concentrated animal feeding operations – where animals are confined in extreme conditions and environments become polluted.

"'We'd make the same decision,' zoo director says of gorilla shooting"
"(CNN) Zookeepers shot and killed a rare gorilla on Saturday after a 3-year-old boy slipped into its enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo, triggering outcry over how the situation was handled. If they had to do it again, they would respond the same way, the zoo's director said Monday." -CNN Website

The animal mind : an introduction to the philosophy of animal cognition
By Kristin Andrews
General Collection QL785 .A69 2015

What would animals say if we asked the right questions?
By Vinciane Despret
General Collection QL751 .D44613 2016

Artist/Animal
by Steve Baker
General Collection N7660 .B28 2013

The cry of nature : art and the making of animal rights
by Stephen Eisenman
General Collection N7660 .E437 2013

Animals and men : their relationship as reflected in Western art from prehistory to the present day
By Kenneth Clark
General Collection N 7660 .C55

The ghosts of our meat : Sue Coe
By Sue Coe, Stephen Eisenman, Phillip Earenfight, Trout Gallery
General Collection N6797.C55 A4 2013

Surface encounters : thinking with animals and art
By Ron Broglio
General Collection B105.A55 B76 2011

About Place Journal
A literary journal published by the Black Earth Institute dedicated to re-forging the links between art and spirit, earth and society.

H-Net News: Animal Studies

H-Net: Humanities and Social Science Online - Animal Studies, provides book reviews, conference and workshop announcements, calls for papers, and other links to news related to Animal Studies.

Animal NonHuman Workshop - University of Chicago

"The Animal/Nonhuman Workshop is an interdisciplinary group of graduate students and faculty who engage with Nonhumans, representations of animals, and human-nonhuman encounters."

Animal Studies Seminar Series, Fall 2016 - Michigan State University
Seeing with Animals - Eastern Kentucky University

Call for papers!

The animals reader : the essential classic and contemporary writings
by Linda. Kalof & Amy J. Fitzgerald
Available via I-Share - Ordered for COD Library

Why animals matter : animal consciousness, animal welfare, and human well-being
By Marian Stamp Dawkins
General Collection HV4708 .D3824 2012

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How to Read a Research Article

Struggling to read your scientific scholarly article, even though it looks like it might be a perfect fit for your topic?

Try using the info below as a guidepost to help you understand the article. To begin, figure out if you're reading a Research Article or a Review Article.

Reading Research Articles

Start by looking for the distinctive markers of a scholarly article: are the authors' degrees or university affiliations listed? Do you see an abstract? How about charts, tables, graphs?

If you are using a scientific research article, you'll see the following distinctive sections:

  • Abstract: a paragraph summary of the research question and findings
  • Introduction: the research question: what did the scientists set out to know? Also provides context to the study: what did we know about the topic? Who answered the most important questions so far? Will include many citations.
  • Method: the experiment design
  • Results: The data gathered by the experiment
  • Discussion: analyzes the results. What do we understand about the topic after the experiment has been conducted?
  • Conclusion: lists further questions to be studied
  • References or Works Cited: functions just as yours will. What research has been referenced throughout the paper?

Some of these sections may be merged with other sections, have slightly different names, be combined together (results and discussion often share a single section) or may not be labeled, but all should be present in one way or another.

Confused? Take a look at page one of a scholarly research article below:

Scholarly Article

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Notice the following:

  1. The authors list a university affiliation
  2. The abstract is right in the center of the page
  3. The (unmarked) introduction

Want to take a closer look? Cladophora (Chlorophyta) spp. Harbor Human Bacterial Pathogens in Nearshore Water of Lake Michigan is a research article found on PubMedCentral, the government-sponsored free article database. You can use this as a model scholarly research article.

Having Trouble Reading Your Article?

  • Remember to start with your abstract. The summary will tell you where the authors are heading and help you to fight through confusing sections.
  • Try reading your article out of order! (No one said we have to follow the rules all the time, right?) Start with the abstract, and skim through the Introduction and the Conclusion (Don't see one? Read the Discussion instead.) Note the hypothesis and article findings. Then read the whole article, remembering that the Materials and Methods sections are often long and full of complex concepts.
  • Be careful to be very conscious of whatever section you're reading, because that will tell you the types of info that you're reading: are you in Methods? If so, you're looking at experimental design. Are you looking through Results? If so, you're looking at the data that was gathered, etc., etc.
  • Check out this handy book that discusses reading and critiquing scholarly articles.
  • This article, "To understand a scientific paper, delve into its parts" by Bethany Brookshire (a working scientist) also does a good job of breaking down scientific articles. The second article, Four tips for reading a scientific paper, also offers great advice on how to deal with dense language, as well as important questions to ask about any article you read.
  • Remember that you can use reference databases to explain words or concepts that you're unfamiliar with. Try searching Credo or Gale to start.

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