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yours with the other. If you find someone who has same area of interest creates a
small group.
Task 2: Identify key terms. Write any related key terms according to your
knowledge and give definition before reading any other source.
For example: Your interested topic is :
Dust storms in Aral Sea region
. Key
terms can be: Dust:
dry dirt in the form of powder that covers surfaces inside a
building, or very small dry pieces of earth, sand or other substances
(Cambridge
advanced learners dictionary)
.
A dust storm:
A dust storm is a strong, violent wind
that carries fine particles such as silt, sand, clay, and other materials, often for
long distances. The fine particles swirl around in the air during the storm. A dust
storm can spread over hundreds of miles and rise over 10,000 feet. They have wind
speeds of at least 25 miles per
hour (
"Dust Storms Chapter"
(PDF)
. Emergency
Management Plan. State of Oregon. Archived from
the original
(PDF)
on 2013-10-
21
)
.
This task helps to generalize and describe the terms, understand how deep
your primary knowledge is, and to identify search terms. Additionally, it can serve
you as search/key word while you looking from internet. Now, you will search key
terms from a literature and compare with previous terms. Topic: Dust storms, dust
transfer and depositions in the southern Aral Sea region (Ilkhomjon A., Christian
O., Michael G., 2013). New terms can be: Dust deposition; Aeolian processes; sand
storms; desert landscape; wind speed etc.
Number of new terms depends on your previous your knowledge gained by
lectures, independent readings.
Task 3: Where to look a related literature? Choose two of following categories
of sources from where you can find information of your interest. Some of following
sources may not be useful to your purpose. For example, if you are looking for
governmental documents to see whether there any related rules to environmental
protection then you need visit www.lex.uz or www.gove.uz in Uzbekistan.
- Books.
- Library catalogues. (WorldCat:www.worldcat.org, The library catalog of the
Royal Geographical Society: www.rgs.org, www.bl.uk, www.loc.gov)
- Abstracts and reviews. (Geobase, Science Direct, LexisMexis, Progress in
Physical Geography, and Environmental Complete).
- Citation indexes (ISI Web of knowledge)
- Bibliographies (GIS Bibliography, Bibliography of Aeolian Research)
- Websites/internet (Google Scholar, Google, Alta Viesta, Dogpile)
- Periodic reports of Environmental protection organizations in CA
- Others.
Books and articles:
How to find a book is relevant to your interest and how do
you review it? Methods:
- Read a name and an annotation/abstract and introduction of the book.
- Read about authors; to which research area they are belong. Are they
environmentalists, ecologists or geographers?
- Identify which of the chapter or part of content is more relevant to your
interest.
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- Write any new terms and give definition, then keep it in your dataset
(notebook, computer etc.).
- Read carefully the intended chapter and summarize what is written.
- Read conclusion.
- Try to criticize what have written. Give your own idea and prove your
position!
Write them down on a paper
.
- What have you learned from research methods and their application in
practice?
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