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COMM 10
name________________________________ Go to the Web page for this class:
CQ Researcher Each issue deals with a single topic of current political or social interest. Major aspects of the topic are outlined providing extremely useful background information.
Search for coverage of your topic. Note that you can email these articles to yourself. Here in the classroom, you may need to hold down the Ctrl key (lower left of your keyboard) when you click on the article to bring up the full text. (You're disabling a popup blocker.) Your notes:
Other good resources
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Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage and click on Library Catalog. There is a link to the Cabrillo College Library homepage at the top of this page. You are welcome to go downstairs and find books and bring them back to the classroom.
Electronic books Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage. Click on Full Text Articles (second icon down on left), then on NetLibrary E-Books. The library has about 15,000 electronic books, and more are being added. You can use these from off campus by typing in your library card number.
EBSCOhost's Academic Search Premier provides indexing for about 8000 periodicals, and fulltext articles for about 5000 of those titles.
Article title__________________________________________________ Periodical title (look where the screen says Source) _____________________________________________________ Date of periodical issue_______________ EBSCOhost
has a nifty email feature. Once your article is on your screen,
click on E-mail towards the top of the screen.
Use Proquest Newspapers (NY Times, LA Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Christian Science Monitor)
When you find a full text article, you might want to try emailing
it to yourself (click on Email)
Find an article on your topic. Article title____________________________________________ Where &
when was it published?______________________________
There are many statistical resources you can use, online and in print. It will be helpful to gain some experience with both. General
statistical information about the United States ----Online---- Or go to the Statistics page under the library's Internet Links for more choices. Your notes
It's one thing for you to have a reference to a URL from your textbook or instructor. It's quite another thing for you to venture out to find a good Web site on your own. Evaluation is important! Let's say I was preparing for an informative speech on color blindness. Let's evaluate some Web sites I found using Google. Sometimes it helps to know who bought the domain name. You can do that. Use the WhoIs Directory from Internic Do
smart searching Most search engines have an advanced search
mode. Google's advanced search mode is pictured below. What is illustrated
is a search for 1) Web pages that include the words fluoridation
and toxicity; 2) published (or refreshed) in the
last 6 months; 3) that come from educational
institutions (.edu).
Getting to a list of Internet Search Engines
Tired of Googling? Try these new, experimental search engines: Search for Web sites that would be useful to researching about some of topic of interest to you. Make notes below about 3 quality Web sites you find. 1. URL____________________________ _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ 2. URL____________________________ _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ 3. URL_________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________
"The only difference between the pros and the novices is that the pros have trained the butterflies to fly in formation." - Edwin Newman
Did you pick up one or two pieces of good advice? What? ____________________________________________________________
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Generally on delivery Monroe's Motivated Delivery Your
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Explore these for advice on making effective PowerPoint presentations. Your notes: _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________
Want a refresher on how to reference your resources? From the Cabrillo College Library homepage, click on Internet Links On the next screen, click on Style Guides Noodletools
helps you write citations! Create simple MLA or APA citations.
To watch a video on a computer in the classroom, hold down Ctrl when you click to bring it up (the popup blocker issue, again). ______________________________________ ______________________________________
The Web is rich in images, and it's useful to know how to capture an image and transfer it to a Word document. If you copy and include the image in something you write, the origin of the image should be acknowledged. At the minimum, give the title of the Web site and the complete URL (you can just copy and paste the URL into your Word document). To practice, open a Word document if you don't already have one open (Start -> Word). Go to one of these sources of photos on the Web (Corbis is lots of fun!) and select an image. Go to corbis.com or gettyimages.com. Here's how to do the transfer:
Under (or near) the image, type the word Source, and include the title of the Web site where you got the image and its URL. Your image is there, in your Word document. Word is not a picture editor like Photoshop. You can make the image larger or smaller, but you often end up with distortions, especially as you stretch it to enlarge it. You can write next to and below the image. Putting text around the image would take another lesson. But, at least your image is there, and you can write text near it, commenting on it. Please share your thoughts about this session Thanks!
How to Get to This Page on the Internet
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With the Advanced search screen, you can most
efficiently search more than one term at a time. Click on the
little box next to the word Full
Text to limit your search to fulltext articles on the
database. 
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Your
results will be grouped into subcategories:
