Citrus Cancer Disease
Interim Report
A Reflective Discussion :
Online Tools Selection:
The online tools selected for the purpose of the report are Google and Science Direct. Both of these online search tools facilitate the client in having access to desired information in more reliable and easy manner. Google will help the user in collecting more relevant, uncluttered and informal layout of information. The other online tool that was used is Science Direct. It is website operated by the Dutch publisher Elsevier containing about 11 million articles from 2,500 journals and 6,000 e-books, reference works, book series and handbooks.
Increasing quality of work
If I would take use of Books and direct interview from the farmers and the agriculture department then it will improve the quality of my work more. The work is according to the demands of the client. With the help of internet search tools almost all type of information is available but they lack data and material from Agriculture governing bodies of Australia. What they are practically doing to resolve the issue.
Learning outcome of online search tools
Over all the online search process is not less than Angles stick which give easy access of the information. They give easy access to large amount of data in just one click.
Differentiating this work with another online search for client
If I would be give some other online search I would include more search tools line Bing and Ask to collect information.
Overall strengths and weaknesses
Google the best search Engine is used for the report. It meets almost 95% of the information needs of everyday user. It is so simple to use that the farmers who are not much literate will be able to solve their quires with the help of that. The synonyms of the objectives provide to elaborate the research outcome. With their help more accurate, precise and relevant information can be collected by the client. The other search tool Science Direct will help the client by making available good literary work related to the problem under consideration. In this way the client would know how people faced and solve the issues in the past and what changes they should be doing in the strategies so that they don’t repeat the mistakes done in past. The past researches will thus facilitate future outcomes.
There is a lot of wrong information on the internet. Anyone can post anything, and much of it is garbage. This affects the search objectives results. The reports do not take into account farmers’ direct point of view.
Learning outcome of undertaking the client’s information need and creating the client’s report
It is a very intersecting process of creating a report according to client requirement using all the knowledge one process. I learn that the report should include all the information needed by the client plus some extra material, stats and figures to not only satisfy the client but exceed their client and delighting them. Move over search strategies should be according to the education level of the user to facilitate them solving the problem
Self-Allocation of Grade:
TOTAL= 8.5
- Executive Summary:
Advancement in technology has helped businesses to have access to information in an easier way. Today, even a common man can use internet to find important information easily. There are several search engines that have supported this cause and these search engines have helped the problems of people a lot in finding relevant information in a quick time (Hock, 2001). By using search engines, people can find information related to anything whether it is related to marketing, engineering, social sciences, humanities, physics, chemistry, mathematics etc. Therefore internet is used by people for a number of reasons (Jansen & Spink, 2006).
This report presents the how to manage the farm from the outbreak of canker disease and preventing the farm from such issues. Canker disease can influence the overall production of citrus fruits and therefore it is important to take preventive actions. This report provides information regarding the impact of this disease, and how this disease can be prevented. This report also through light what are the types of citrus cancer disease and what steps should be taken by the farmers and also the agriculture governing bodies to control this issue not only in New South Wales but also in other parts of Australia. This report presents the keywords that could be used to search related information. Moreover, the report has presented different online search tools that could be used. Then the report analyses the discussion to select the type of search engine to achieve each particular keyword. The report at the end provides conclusion.
- Introduction:
The internet world is called as global village. It is a huge joint possessing vast variety of information on almost all the areas. (Manning, Raghavan, & Schütze, 2008).alike all other fields the use of internet for business purpose had taken momentum from many years. Past information regarding any area will facilitate the future decision making and provide guidelines to be followed to avoid those mistakes done in the past. (Manning, Raghavan & Schütze, 2008).
The main focus of the report is to providing information regarding the outbreak of canker disease. It comprises of the main objective that need to be addressed and they ways and strategies to solve them. The report would focus on analyzing the keyword that would significantly help to identify the objectives set in the earlier stage through the effective use of keywords and synonyms. In addition, this portion of the report would also indicate whether the keywords would be used in searching for the information required. The online tools that would be used to search relevant information would be identified and the selection of online search tools would be evaluated along with proper justification that why would only the selected online tools would be used rather than using other online search tools available. The paper will also through light on the initial search strategies for the report and finally the conclusion is presented.
Farms in New South Wales as well in other parts of Australia are facing problems from the outbreaks of citrus growth. It has become important for the farmers and the citrus growers to know about the impact of such disease and how to prevent such disease. The report also includes the previous outbreaks of citrus canker in farms in Australia. To reduce the impact of the disease on farms, the report aims to identify corrective actions which will eventually help to save the farms. This knowledge would help her to stop the diseases in its initial stage. In addition, cancer being the most prominent concern of farmers due to which the report aims to find out about the problems experienced by other farmers in the state.
- Search Objectives:
The main aim behind the research is to analyses the citrus canker disease in Australia. To reach is objectives detailed study is done on how the problem was being addressed in the past, what steps were taken by the farmers and the agriculture organizations to address the issue not only in New South Wales but also in other parts of Australia. The research aims to find out the financial loss faced by the farmers and the corrective action that should be taken to solve the issue. In addition, provide recommendations and suggestions will be given for further help of the concern parties.
The main objectives are:
- Selection and Use of Online Search Engine:
5.1 Introduction of Search Engines:
Search engines facilitate doing online work. For this purpose different type of search engines are available. Different search engine works in a different way (Sullivan, 2002). Moreover, some people prefer one search engine whereas others would not prefer the same (Teevan, Alvarado, Ackerman, & Karger, 2004). Some of the major search engine tools that have been used by a large number of users are as follows:
- Google
- Yahoo!
- Bing
- AltaVista
- AOL Search
- Lycos
- Live Search
5.2 “Google” The Main Search Engine for doing Research:
As there are a number of search engine tools, however one of the most used search engines is Google. There are a number of factors that differentiate Google from the other search engines (Langville, & Meyer, 2006). Some of the major factors for which Google has been selected as the search engine tool have been discussed below:
5.2.1 Speed
One of the major factors that differentiate Google from the other search engine tools is the speed (Gardner, & Eng, 2005). Google is a very efficient search engine in not only searching the required data but the website is loaded very quickly (Hansell, 2007). Thus it helps the users to find the required data in the quickest possible time.
5.2.2 Simple yet effective
The other important factor that differentiates Google from the rest is its simplicity. The search engine is not only simple but it is user friendly (Evans, 2007).
5.2.3 Effective results
One of the most important features that are required for the search engine to be successful is to find effective results. Google is able to find the most effective results and it is able to search results from different perspectives and from different fields whether someone is looking for accounting concepts, engineering problems, technical or non-technical, any problem related to farming or related to industrial issues, Google is able to find the required results in the most effective manner (Falagas, Pitsouni, Malietzis, & Pappas, 2008).
5.2.4 Different features from Google
Google is not only a search engine. It offers a range of other services like search images, search books, view different books (Brophy, & Bawden, 2005), search journal articles using Google scholar (Jacsó, 2005), search videos (Chen, 2006).
5.3 Database Search Engine:
The database search engine selected is Science Direct. Although there are number of search engines however some of the renowned database search engines are: Science Direct, Emerald, Elsevier, Wiley, etc. However among different database search tools, Science Direct has been selected for this report. Some of the most important features for selecting Science Direct are:
5.3.1 Data available
Science Direct is one of the renowned search database tools. Science Direct has more than 2,500 peer reviewed journals along with over 11,000 books (Science Direct, 2013). Therefore this makes the database one of the renowned ones.
5.3.2 Easy to use And Different categories
The website is very friendly to use and the site layout helps the user to use the site in an easier way.
There are journal articles related to different categories available at Science Direct. Science Direct offers articles and peer reviewed on a number of fields and subjects and some of them are:
- Physical engineering
- Management
- Business management
- Health sciences
- Social sciences
- Humanities
- Life sciences
- Agricultural and biological sciences
- Environmental sciences
- Mathematics
- Medical sciences
- Energy (Science Direct, 2013)
- Sources of Data for Search Objective:
- Discussion of the Initial Search Strategies:
The Keywords mention above are used for making the research work easier and helping the search engine to work according to our area of interest. They help in making dealing with search objectives by making relevant web pages, online books and journals available for the work
Therefore the researcher would be able to achieve the objective in a better way using all the sources. In addition to this, using database as well as internet it would be more natural, convenient and effective to conduct research.
- Conclusion
The report has presented how to collect information that could be helpful in managing the farm and preventing the farm from outbreak of such disease. The report has presented how to use different search engine tools using different keywords to find the relevant information. In addition to this, the report has also presented an analysis of two of the selected search engine tools to achieve the search objectives. The tools that have been selected are; Google which is for the internet search, Science Direct Web pages and online Journals. The report has presented a discussion as well regarding the use of different keywords from specific type of online search tools. This would be further helpful in knowing how to achieve the objectives in the best possible manner.
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TRANSCRIPT
May 1, 2013 5:32:02 PM - ASSIGNMENT 3: ORANGE FARM CLIENT INTERVIEW
30:53 –
Q- Are you looking for a specific type of canker?
A- Not sure, Valencia citrus grower need to know more info on citrus canker
32:14 -
Q-would you prefer chemical or alternative avenues if you experienced an outbreak?
A- Prefer natural, biological and chemical
33:05 -
Q-What details do you want regarding Canker outbreak information?
A- How will affect Valencia Orange?
34:27 -
Q-Have you looked at the DPI websites for information on citrus canker?
A- Yes but limited access to internet
35:39 -
Q-what do you intend to use the information for or what to you aim to gain from the information?
Be armed when outbreak happens: action, be ready, prepared.
35:41 –
Q-How do you know its citrus canker and not another disease?
A- Don’t know
38:01 -
Q-Has anybody you have known had to deal with this same issue?
A- Unfortunately not sure
39:21 -
Q-Do you have any other farming experience?
Don’t have any
40:29 -
Q- What troubles have you encountered when searching for this information Other than online access difficulties?
A- Only commercial info
42:11 -
Q-are you interested in information on monitoring for the disease?
Yes definitely
42:35 –
Q-It is advised that you are interested from a income perspective with the "real-life" examples is there a particular focus for these examples i.e. financial impacts or stock loss or outbreak?
A-Yes provide example with: percentage losses, farmer’s experience
43:44 –
Q-across states or particular state only?
A-NSW, Victoria and Queensland
45:06 -
Q-Do you have a particular format you would prefer for receiving this information?
Report by email include: $ of final report
46:14 -
Q-Would you be interested in video's or YouTube clips on the disease?
No, only image in color
47:38 -
Q-What organizations are you aware of that deal with information concerning diseased oranges?
A-Not sure but would like to have the organizations contact details: citrus grower association
48:47 -
Q-do you have a budget you would like to stick too, totaling the complete costs and management?
Yes , for this report $500.00-$750.00
50:28 -
Q-Are you more interested in prevention or treatment?
Would like to prevent it
51:00 -
Q-While you mentioned you are interested Aust states are you interested in overseas information?
A- Not really
54:50 -
Q-Are you familiar with NSW legislation regarding citrus canker?
A- No but would like this info
55:39
Q-Do you think scientific case studies be helpful?
A-Yes
56:31 -
Q-With the real life examples you would like, do you want individual (specific) experiences from the farmer’s perspective?
A-Yes will be helpful
57:33 -
Q-How detailed do you want treatment info? Different types of pesticides and the associated impact?
Key treatment options
