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Teaching information skills for legal method
Get PDFI have been involved with teaching information skills as part of the Law Departmentās 1st year Legal Method course since 2000. These sessions have developed from a set of half hour sessions offered on a drop-in basis in 2000, to the current format of four seminars of an hour each. The four seminars deal with searching the library catalogue; searching the law databases for cases and statutes; searching for journal articles; and finding and evaluating material for law on the free internet.
There are 10 seminar groups for Legal Method so each library seminar is delivered 10 times in the week. The aim of this article is to provide a snapshot of the seminars on journals from January 2009, which I hope will prove interesting to colleagues as an example of services provided by the academic services librarians
METAPHOR MAPPING IN INDONESIAN POLITICAL INTERNET MEMES
Get PDFIn this global social media era, it is very easy for people to share their ideas through internet.
One of them is by making internet meme. Internet meme becomes new culture of sharingopinions easily in the worldwide networking. When people find it hard to convey theirideas and meaning through lexical words, they will use metaphor to help them explain theirintention. Metaphor has set of mapping between the source domain and target domain inthe process of making. This article will reveal the common issue talked by Indonesiannetizens especially about their political matters from two Facebook accounts: Meme PolitikIndonesia and Humor Politik Indonesia. It has been found that in these two accounts,people make memes mostly about the most recent issue around them: in this case it is aboutJakarta Governorās election and general politic issues. The use of metaphors mapping asvehicle to share ideas shows that netizens of these two Facebook accounts mostly see
POLITIC AS MOVEMENT and POLITIC AS BUSINESS
Web interfaces to enhance CAL materials: Case studies from law and statistics
Get PDFOne impact of the āinformation ageā is that a variety of new learning resources have become available to both students and tutors. Using these resources effectively and with a sound pedagogical basis presents a whole array of issues for teaching professionals. In this paper the authors describe the development and implementation of a Web interface to existing computerābased learning materials in an attempt to enhance the student learning experience. Although the innovations occurred in two very different disciplines āstatistics and law ā there are common lessons to be learned about the process of learning and the use of technology
THE POWER OF LANGUAGE OF AN INTERNET WEBSITE IN INFLUENCING PEOPLEāS PERCEPTION: A TEXT ANALYSIS OF REPRESENTATION
Get PDFIn this millennial era the Internet has become a very principal media and therefore, the
language used in any text in the Internet can automatically serve as a very powerful tool to
influence peopleās perception. This paper analyzes the language used in a text of a website and
tries to reveal the representation of the Self and Other of the text. The text analyzed was
published in a website of a community that called itself The Knights Party, a non-aggressive
racist group in the United States of America. The text was written by the director of the party,
Thomas Robb. Robb is a pastor and director of this racist group. The analysis will apply
Systemic Functional Grammar in unveiling the positive representation of the Self and negative
representation of the Other. Transitivity and appraisal will be the focus of the analysis. The
findings show that through transitivity and appraisal, it is obvious that the text writer is making
a positive representation of the Self and negative representation of the Other. The analysis also
results in the fact that the racist issue can be found within the text
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