The instruction given to us by Mrs Mohammed was to use our research topic and do a thorough search for information on the topic. Gather as many formats as possible. Select the formats that would meet our research expectations. Explain why we chose those formats. Secondly, transform at least two of those formats into another source type.
The following is the list of sources that I have found. Following this you will find my attempts at transforming to of the sources:
FORMAT
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SOURCE
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MOTIVATING CHOICE
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| Peer reviewed journals |
Back, A.L., Wallace, J.I., Starks, H.E.
& Pearlman, R.A. 1996, "Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia in
Washington State: patient requests and physician responses", Jama, vol.
275, no. 12, pp. 919-925.
Blank, K., Robison, J., Doherty, E.,
Prigerson, H., Duffy, J. & Schwartz, H.I. 2001, "Life‐Sustaining
Treatment and Assisted Death Choices in Depressed Older Patients", Journal of the American
Geriatrics Society, vol. 49, no. 2, pp. 153-161.
Cicirelli, V.G. 1997, "Relationship of
psychosocial and background variables to older adults' end-of-life
decisions.", Psychology and aging, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 72.
Emanuel, E.J., Fairclough, D.L. &
Emanuel, L.L. 2000, "Attitudes and desires related to euthanasia and
physician-assisted suicide among terminally ill patients and their
caregivers", Jama, vol. 284, no. 19, pp. 2460-2468.
Emanuel, E.J., Fairclough, D.L., Slutsman,
J. & Emanuel, L.L. 2000, "Understanding economic and other burdens
of terminal illness: the experience of patients and their caregivers", Annals
of Internal Medicine, vol. 132, no. 6, pp. 451-459.
Ganzini, L., Johnston, W.S., McFarland,
B.H., Tolle, S.W. & Lee, M.A. 1998, "Attitudes of patients with
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and their care givers toward assisted
suicide", New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 339, no. 14, pp.
967-973.
Gummere, P.J. 2014, "OPPOSING ASSISTED
SUICIDE IN VERMONT. (Cover story)", Ethics & Medics, vol. 39,
no. 7, pp. 1-4.
Lynn, J., Teno, J.M., Phillips, R.S., Wu,
A.W., Desbiens, N., Harrold, J., Claessens, M.T., Wenger, N., Kreling, B.
& Connors, A.F. 1997, "Perceptions by family members of the dying
experience of older and seriously ill patients", Annals of Internal
Medicine, vol. 126, no. 2, pp. 97-106.
Pestinger, M., Stiel, S., Elsner, F.,
Widdershoven, G., Voltz, R., Nauck, F. & Radbruch, L. 2015, "The
desire to hasten death: Using Grounded Theory for a better understanding
“When perception of time tends to be a slippery slope”", Palliative
medicine, vol. 29, no. 8, pp. 711-719.
Tomasini, F. 2014, "Stoic Defence of
Physician-Assisted Suicide", Acta Bioéthica, vol. 20, no. 1, pp.
99-108.
Tomlinson, E., Spector, A., Nurock, S.
& Stott, J. 2015, "Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in
dementia: A qualitative study of the views of former dementia carers", Palliative
medicine, vol. 29, no. 8, pp. 720-726.
Wilson, K.G., Chochinov, H.M., McPherson,
C.J., Skirko, M.G., Allard, P., Chary, S., Gagnon, P.R., Macmillan, K., De
Luca, M. & O'Shea, F. 2007, "Desire for euthanasia or
physician-assisted suicide in palliative cancer care.", Health Psychology,
vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 314.
Wilson, K.G., Scott, J.F., Graham, I.D.,
Kozak, J.F., Chater, S., Viola, R.A., de Faye, B.J., Weaver, L.A. &
Curran, D. 2000, "Attitudes of terminally ill patients toward euthanasia
and physician-assisted suicide", Archives of Internal Medicine, vol.
160, no. 16, pp. 2454-2460.
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These journals are all credible due to the fact that they are peer-reviewed therefore I will use them in my research. |
| Reports |
The South
African Law Commission. 1998. Project 86: Euthanasia and the artificial
preservation of life. Pretoria: South African Law Commission
Kamisar, Y. 1993, "Are laws against
assisted suicide unconstitutional?", Hastings Center Report, pp.
32-41.
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These reports have been commissioned by organisations which are independent, nonpartisan, and non profit in nature. The reports were compiled by experts in their field and authoritative based on their position in society and their scholarship. |
| Reference Material |
"Suicide in Late Life" 2013, in The
Encyclopedia of Elder Care Springer Publishing Company, .
"Assisted Suicide" 2008, in Encyclopedia
of Interpersonal Violence Sage Publications, .
"The Psychology of Death" 2005,
in The Cambridge Handbook of Age and Ageing Cambridge University
Press, .
"Clinical Conditions and the
Experience of Clinical Health Psychology" 2003, in Handbook of
Clinical Health Psychology Wiley, .
"PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED DEATH" 2003,
in Handbook of Death and Dying Sage Publications, .
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The articles in these reference materials are all credible due to the fact that they are peer-reviewed therefore I will use them in my research. |
| Movies |
Morgenson, Donald.,WLU Telecollege
Productions., 1986, Behaviour disturbing and disturbed, Beacon Films,
Niagara Falls, NY.
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Dr. Donald Morgenson is Professor Emeritus in Psychology at the
Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada. He has published extensively in his
field and this movie forms part of a series of video lectures on suicide. |
| Websites |
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These websites are all headed by people who are authoritative in their respective fields based on subject expertise. They are widely published and cited. The doctors for life and patients rights council I have chosen as they provide an opposing view. |
| Online Newspapers |
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These newspaper articles are by authoritative news agencies (EWN and the Mail & Guardian). The authors are unbiased and report factual information. The Daily Maverick reports on Archbishop Tutu’s perspective on the right to die. The Daily Maverick is a unique blend of news, information, analysis and opinion is run by an independently owned, private company with no affiliation to any other media group (or political party or religious organisation). |
The next part deals with changing
2 of the sources' formats. I will explain the process and considerations I have
taken into account when doing this part of the task.
The first source I chose was the online newspaper article by
the Daily Maverick: http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2014-07-14-the-right-to-die-archbishop-tutu-provides-guidance-on-the-last-medical-legal-and-ethical-frontier/#.VfRXs5fgPDc
This source I transformed into a blog. The title of the blog
and access to the blog is as follows: Transforming Formats
LBS 707 Information Literacy Blog Homework
Upon reflection I found this to be quite easy but time
consuming. I had to take into consideration the title of the Blog, as it is
searchable and available on the web. I first thought of using the title of the
article as the blog title but I was afraid of a backlash of plagiarism by the
author. Thus I used the title of the article as the blog post title. It was a
mere process of copying and pasting and when I was done I had changed the
format of the source from an online article to a blog post.
The second source I chose was a webpage on the APA's website regarding assisted suicide and looking debates for and against the issue http://www.apa.org/topics/death/end-of-life.aspx
I transformed this into a slide show presentation on google slides. The slide show can be found at DEBATING ASSISTED SUICIDE
I transformed this into a slide show presentation on google slides. The slide show can be found at DEBATING ASSISTED SUICIDE
The process involved was the same as the previous one but here I had to consider the layout of the slides and I had to first design the slides and check how I am going to make all the content fit. From there it was basically transferring the information and once that was done the format had been change from a webpage to a slide show presentation.
