Cabrillo College Library

1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage <http://libwww.cabrillo.edu>
2. Click on Internet Links
3. Click on Business
4. Scroll down to Course-Related Materials, and click on BUS 20, Introduction to Business
5. Make this page a Favorite (Internet Explorer; or Bookmark this Web page if you're using Netscape or Mozilla).

Select one of these companies (check the one you choose)

Find the company's annual report

Go to irin: Annual Report Resource Center and find a recent annual report for your company. Download it and familiarize yourself with it. How long is it -- how many pages? ______

More information on your company

Go to Hoover's for information about your company. Click on RESEARCH. Describe the kind of information available:

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Go to the EDGAR database at the Securities and Exchange Commission to do a company and filings search. It's probably easiest to use the ticker symbol.

What is the SIC (Standard Industrial Code) for the company? ________Scroll down to look at some recent filings. Are annual reports or quarterly reports available? To limit to annual reports, type 10-K where it says Form Type. To limit to quarterly reports, type 10-Q where it says Form Type --

Make notes about what you find:

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1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
2. Click on Fulltext Articles (if you are off campus, your library card number is your user ID)
3. Select Magazine and Journal Articles (EBSCOhost).
4. On the next screen, click on
5. On the next screen, click on the Advanced Search button.
6. Click on the little box next to the term Full text to limit your search to fulltext articles in the database.
7. Type in your search terms and hit the Search button.
8. From the Results screen, click on an article title to get to the screen with full information

NOTE that once you have your article on the screen, you can print, save, or email it (see buttons at the top of the screen).

Write down information about at least one periodical article you found about your company.

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• Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
• Click on Fulltext Articles
• Select National Newspaper Articles, which covers these papers-- New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor and provides fulltext for most of the articles.
• Click on Advanced Search

Find a fairly recent article on your company and growth. Notice that, once you've got it, you can email it to yourself. You don't have to right now -- but I just wanted you to know that.

What's the title of the article you found? ________________________

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When was it published? ______________________________________

What newspaper?___________________________________

It's important to evaluate what you find on the Internet.

To get to a list of Web search engines, with tips on how to use them to best advantage

• Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
• Click on Search the Internet
  
  Find a recently updated Web site about your company that provides a financial analysis and is from an educational institution. Here's how your search would look using Google's Advanced Search mode

Information about the Web site you found:

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What information is provided?

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The Web is rich in images. There are times you need to incorporate images in a paper or report -- for example, an organization chart, a computer diagram, the specs for a new product.

If you copy and include the image in something you write, the origin of the image should be acknowledged. In a formal paper, you would write a full citation. At the very minimum, give the title of the Web site and the complete URL (you can just copy and paste the URL into your Word document -- Ctrl C to copy; Ctrl V to paste).

Open a Word document, if you haven't already. Here are some easy sources of
images: || Corbis.com || || Ditto.com || ixquick (click on Pictures)

Once you have your image, go through these steps:

1. On the Web, right click on the image; scroll down to Save Image As
2. Save the image to the Desktop. (If you are at your own computer at home, or wherever, save it where you want!) You can rename it if you would like. Save it with a .jpg (for photographs and images with lots of detail), or a .gif (other images) extension.
3. Go to your Word document.
4. Click on Insert on the toolbar at the top of the screen
5. Go to Picture. Select From File
6. Go to the Desktop and click on your image to insert it.
7. Under (or near) the image, type the word Source and include the title of the Web site and its complete URL. [This is the minimum information you should include. For how to fully cite the image, use guides listed at Style Guides.]

Your image is there. You can write next to and below the image. To put text around the image -- click on the image, go to Format -> Picture. Click on Wrapping tab, and select the wrapping format you want (tight usually works well). NOTE: Depending on the version of Word you are using, you may have to first click on the Position tab and select Float over text.

To get to this page on the Internet

1. Be on the Cabrillo College Library homepage http://libwww.cabrillo.edu
2. Click on Internet Links
3. Click on Business
4. Scroll down to Course-Related Materials, and select Business 20, Introduction to Business

Laura Kelly and T.N. Smalley; last rev. 2/06