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Exercise 3


1. What is the difference between journal and a magazine?

Magazine or Journal? Some clues for telling the difference


Authorship:

Journal articles are written by experts in the field, and indicate the authors and their affiliations. Articles are usually reviewed and critically evaluated by a board of experts in the field (refereed). On the other hand, some magazine articles are not signed and are not evaluated by experts in the field, but by editors or staff .

Length:
Journal articles are usually longer articles, providing in-depth analysis of topics. Magazine articles are shorter and provide broader overviews of topics.

Language/Audience:
Journal articles are written in the jargon of the field for scholarly readers (professors, researchers, or students). Magazine articles are usually written in non-technical language for anyone to understand.

Method:
Journal articles often attempt to prove a thesis by experimentation or documentary evidence, are usually more structured, and may include these sections: abstract, literature review, methodology, results, conclusion, bibliography


Sources:
Journal articles always have bibliographies and/or footnotes listing sources consulted by the author(s).

Graphics:

Journal articles often include charts or graphics, but rarely include lots of glossy photographs or advertising.

Page Numbers:


Journal page numbers are usually sequential through all issues in a volume. Magazine pages numbers usually start over with each issue.

Example of Journal and Magazine




                               
            Journal                      Magazine           
                                    



2.DDC& Lc classification

LC classification Summary
A General Works
B Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
C Auxiliary Sciences of History
D History (Includes Travel)
E America
F United States, Canada Latin America
L Education
M Music
N Fine Arts
P Language and Literature
Q Science
R Medicine
S Agriculture
T Technology

DDc works well in smaller libraies, but it isn’t specific enough for large, diverse collections.

DDC has ten major classes
000 Generalities
100 Philosophy/Psychology
200 Religion
300 Social Sciences
400 Language
500 Natural Sciences/Mathematics
600 Technology
700 The Arts
800 Literature/Rhetoric
900 Geography/History


3.Access the library website: What Is a Call Number?

A call number is a group of numbers and/or letters put together to tell you where in the library
to find your book.

A call number is locatedat the bottom of the book on the spine.It helps you to find your books quicker.Once you've got your call number from the card catalog, it's time to go find your book!

This is where a call number is located: Here's something to remember:
Don't let it confuse you, but just because it's a call number doesn't mean it has numbers! Some call numbers are made up of letters. We'll show you some examples later.


4.what are sources of knowledge?

Inspiration, revelation, insight, intuition, ecstasy, divine sight and the supreme, blissful state are the seven planes of knowledge. There are four sources of knowledge: instinct, reason, intuition, and direct knowledge of Brahman (God) or Brahma-Jnana (knowledge of God).


Instinct

When an ant crawls on your right arm, the left hand automatically moves towards the right arm to drive the ant away. The mind does not reason here. When you see a scorpion near your leg, you withdraw the leg automatically. This is called instinctive or automatic movement. As you cross a street, how instinctively you move your body to save yourself from the cars! There is no thought during such kind of mechanical movement.

Instinct is found in animals and birds also. In birds, the ego does not interfere with the free, divine flow and play. Hence the work done by them through their instinct is more perfect than that done by human beings. Have you ever noticed the intricate and exquisite work done by birds in the building of their beautiful nests ?


Reason

Reason is higher than instinct and is found only in human beings. It collects facts, generalizes, reasons out from cause to effect, from effect to cause, from premises to conclusions, from propositions to proofs. It concludes, decides and comes to final judgment. It takes you safely to the door of intuition and leaves you there.

Belief, reason, knowledge and faith are the four important psychic processes. First you have belief in a doctor. You go to him for diagnosis and treatment. The doctor makes a thorough examination of you and prescribes certain medicines. You take them. You reason out: "Such and such is the disease. The doctor has given me some iron and iodide. Iron will improve my blood. The iodide will stimulate the lymphatics and absorb the exudation and growth in the liver. So I should take it."

Then, by a regular and systematic course of these drugs, the disease is cured in a month. You then get knowledge and have perfect faith in the efficacy of the medicine and the proficiency of the doctor. You recommend this doctor and his drugs to your friends so that they too might benefit from his treatment.


Intuition

Intuition is personal spiritual experience. The knowledge obtained through the functioning of the causal body (Karana Sarira) is intuition. Sri Aurobindo calls it the Supermind or Supramental Consciousness. There is direct perception of truth, or immediate knowledge through Samadhi or the Superconscious State. You know things in a flash.

Professor Bergson preached about intuition in France to make the people understand that there was a higher source of knowledge than the intellect.

In intuition there is no reasoning process at all. It is direct perception. Intuition transcends reason but does not contradict it. Intellect takes a man to the door of intuition and returns. Intuition is Divya Drishti (divine vision); it is the eye of wisdom. Spiritual flashes and glimpses of truth, inspiration, revelation and spiritual insight come through intuition.

The mind has to be pure for one to know that it is the intuition that is functioning at a particular moment.


Brahma-Jnana (knowledge of God) is above intuition. It transcends the causal body and is the highest form of knowledge. It is the only Reality.


5.what do you read this week?

The nation
Move to set up greenhouse farming

Published on: 9/14/2009.
STEPS are being taken to provide greenhouse farming technology in Barbados.
This was revealed by Senator Haynesley Benn during his remarks at a service of the southern zone of Wesleyan churches held at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre yesterday.

"We are embarking on a programme with some secondary schools and the EPA [environmental protection agency) involving greenhouse farming," he told the gathering which also included 4H members from the Wilkie Cumberbatch, Luther Thorne and St Davids primary schools.
Greenhouse farming technology maximises on inputs like nutrition, pesticide application, irrigation and light to achieve optimum results.
However, Benn said that the greenhouse farming initiative was not aimed at replacing working the land.
"This is not to get people away from the fields," he stated. (LW)



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