Jul
12
Resources for students of tourism
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Internet for travel and tourism is a website created for students of tourism that is really worth exploring. It was created by Philip Rowe for Intute.
By following the tutorial and the links on this website, you can learn the things that every serious student of tourism should know about. The tutorial is written in a clear language, well structured and the links it provides broaden your horizons. I’m sure these resources will help you learn about things that matter in the world of travel and tourism and write better assignments.
May
20
Citing your sources
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Having problems with citing your sources in your List of references? No more!
Visit citationmachine.net, choose your style of citation, the type of publication, fill in the information about your sources and click on submit. Copy the citation in your List of references.
(My students have to choose the APA citation style.)
Jan
7
Are travel blogs a reliable information source?
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Travel blogs may be reliable or they may not be. Christopher Elliott says they should be read with a grain of salt. Interested? Follow this link to the article. Would you like to share your experience? Leave a comment below.
Apr
25
Spell checkers
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Spelling English words is not as easy as words in Slovene. We all know that. Those of you who haven’t got a spell checker installed in your word processor can nevertheless correct your spelling.
There are a number of online spell checkers and I’d recommend SpellCheck.net to you. It helps you correct texts of up to 20,000 characters in length.
If you happen to know a better one, drop me a line.
Mar
26
Assignments: Step 2
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We finished Step 1 by sharpening our focus on women’s leisure perspectives, that is on the meaning of leisure for women. Before we can search for suitable articles, we have to define our key words.
Key words are of crucial importance. Articles tend to have 4 – 6 key words which sum up the topic(s) individual articles deal with. Key words allow search engines (e.g. Google) and specialized databases (e.g. Ingenta) to match someone’s search words with an article’s key words. Therefore if your key words are not precise enough or they are ill-formed, your search may not produce the hits you are hoping for.
Let’s take an example. Had I started searching for suitable articles on the topic of gender using Google, this is what would have happened. See my search results:
gender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363,000,000
gender +tourism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,300,000
gender +tourism +leisure . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,400,000
gender +tourism +leisure +women . . . . . . . 919,000
Although the hits provide links to websites that may lead to useful information, 919,000 hits are still too many, right? How about refining our search words? After working through Step 1 we know we are after articles women’s leisure perspectives, how about using these words in Google?
women’s leisure perspectives . . . . . . . . 1,800,000
women’s +”leisure perspectives” . . . . . 86
The latter is a lot more manageable, however, the hits tend to provide links to bibliographies and catalogues. This may not be a complete waste of time but there are search engines that search in specialized databases and these may find suitable articles for your assignment much faster.
Why don’t you try http://scholar.google.com/? Using the search words women’s leisure perspectives would produce 10,400 hits but the majority would be articles and books that deal with the topic you’re looking for. Some of these are available online free of charge, others need to be payed for. (You’re not expected to pay for articles in order to write your assignment. You’re expected to use articles that are available in our library or the library’s databases.
There’s another website I recommend you to visit. It’s Ingenta. Using the search words women’s leisure would produce 47 hits. You can read the articles’ abstracts and choose the articles that come closest to what you want to read about. What you need to do though is find out whether the journals in which the chosen articles are published are available at our library or not. (You can do this if you visit the library’s Cobiss database.) If they are, great, if not, there are a number of other databases which you may want to use. More about that in my next post.
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