This guide introduces common types of references and explains how to interpret them. This guide w... more This guide introduces common types of references and explains how to interpret them. This guide will help you become familiar with the most common kinds of references: books, book chapters and articles in periodicals. In order to find them in the library you will need to be able to distinguish between these different types of references and understand how to search for them on the University of Nottingham Library Online Catalogue (UNLOC). In the examples, we have shown in bold type, the parts of the references you can look up on UNLOC. References to books include the name of the author(s) or editor(s), the title, the name of the publisher and the date and place of publication. Note that the order in which these appear may vary between different reference lists.
Abstract: Using the technique of the imaginary memoir, this article seeks to illustrate the logic... more Abstract: Using the technique of the imaginary memoir, this article seeks to illustrate the logical and semiotic foundations of an empirical inquiry into meaning. The voice of Sherlock Holmes is used to highlight critical issues involving actual logic in use in qualitative research. Suggestions for modifying existing qualitative research practices, based upon this richer understanding of the logic in practice of the method, are also offered. Table of Contents 1. An astonishing turn of affairs 2. The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, the world is a cruel jest 3. Depend upon it there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace
The purpose of this study is to explore principles and dynamics of naturally- occurring learning ... more The purpose of this study is to explore principles and dynamics of naturally- occurring learning communities on the Internet. Specifically, three long-standing and stable USENET groups will be targeted. This cyber-ethnography will be guided by the fundamental principles of activity theory, which insist that cognition and learning is best understood within social and cultural frames. The social and cultural frames,
This guide introduces common types of references and explains how to interpret them. This guide w... more This guide introduces common types of references and explains how to interpret them. This guide will help you become familiar with the most common kinds of references: books, book chapters and articles in periodicals. In order to find them in the library you will need to be able to distinguish between these different types of references and understand how to search for them on the University of Nottingham Library Online Catalogue (UNLOC). In the examples, we have shown in bold type, the parts of the references you can look up on UNLOC. References to books include the name of the author(s) or editor(s), the title, the name of the publisher and the date and place of publication. Note that the order in which these appear may vary between different reference lists.
Abstract: Using the technique of the imaginary memoir, this article seeks to illustrate the logic... more Abstract: Using the technique of the imaginary memoir, this article seeks to illustrate the logical and semiotic foundations of an empirical inquiry into meaning. The voice of Sherlock Holmes is used to highlight critical issues involving actual logic in use in qualitative research. Suggestions for modifying existing qualitative research practices, based upon this richer understanding of the logic in practice of the method, are also offered. Table of Contents 1. An astonishing turn of affairs 2. The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, the world is a cruel jest 3. Depend upon it there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace
The purpose of this study is to explore principles and dynamics of naturally- occurring learning ... more The purpose of this study is to explore principles and dynamics of naturally- occurring learning communities on the Internet. Specifically, three long-standing and stable USENET groups will be targeted. This cyber-ethnography will be guided by the fundamental principles of activity theory, which insist that cognition and learning is best understood within social and cultural frames. The social and cultural frames,
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