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CQ Researcher Each weekly issue covers a single topic of current political or social interest. Topics with international interest are also covered, e.g., "oceans in crisis." In 20 to 30 pages, major aspects of the topic are outlined, along with background information and a description of the current situation. Includes topics of international concern.
Search for coverage of your topic. If you don't have a topic in mind, pick one from the recent reports. Make notes here about what you find. Note that you can email these articles to yourself (email button is at the top right of the Web page). What did you find?
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_____________________________________________________________ If you have a Santa Cruz Public Library card, you might want to use their Opposing Viewpoints database.
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. Your notes____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________
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The Library provides access to many online databases. The one you will use most, probably, is Academic Search Premier -- it provides indexing for about 8,000 periodicals, and full text articles for just over half of those for the last 15 years or so!
Use Academic Search Premier to identify at least one periodical article on your topic. From the results list, click on the article title to get to the screen with more information. Article title__________________________________________________ Periodical title (look where the screen says Source) _____________________________________________________ Date of periodical_______________ There is a nifty email feature. Once your article is on your screen, click on E-mail towards the top of the screen. In all the EBSCOhost
databases, you have the option of doing a visual search. Click
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Use ProQuest Newspapers (NY Times, LA Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Christian Science Monitor)
Again, the Advanced Search mode offers more options. Try it!
Again: there's an email feature -- how cool!
There are many statistical resources you can use, online and in print. It will be helpful to gain some experience with both. RAND California (California and U.S. Statistics) From the library homepage, select Full Text Articles. Under Social Sciences, select RAND California. General statistical
information about the United States ----Online---- Or go to the Statistics page under the library's Internet Links for more choices.
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! Here is a search using Google's Web search. Notice that Google is telling you with the results that there are also books available that respond to the search parameters.
Or, search Google Books on your own. URL is http://books.google.com. Here's a sample search:  Not wanting to be left out, Bill Gates and Microsoft have also started a digitization project. It's called Live Search. (If you want to go to it directly, the URL is books.live.com.)
If we look just at the first book, over on the right is this:
The "Results in this book" green lines tell you where the words are used, so you can get an idea about how extensive the coverage is. Pretty classy!! Getting to a list of Internet Search Engines
Search for Web sites that would be useful to researching about some of topic of interest to you. Make
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Did you pick up one or two pieces of good advice? What? ____________________________________________________________
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Did you pick up one or two pieces of good advice? What? __________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ Explore these for advice on making effective PowerPoint presentations. Your notes: _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________
Five Things about Fallacies from Eastern Kentucky University Logical Fallacies and the Logic of Debate from CSU Northridge Your notes_________________________________________ _________________________________________________
You're probably aware that the Web now has videos galore. There are a lot of outrageous ones, of course. But, there are bunches of good ones, too. And you should know about this growing resource. The main sources of videos are: Blinkx.com (includes a lot of stuff from TV) || Google Videos (more dependable quality than YouTube) || YouTube How do you reference your resources?
Or try Worldcat.org. Look up something, and then click Cite this Item. Amazing!! The Web is rich in images, and it's useful to know how to capture an image and transfer it to a Word document. Go to one of these sources of photos on the Web (Corbis is lots of fun!) and select an image. If you don't know how to do this in your sleep, go through these steps: Go to Corbis.com or Ditto.com. Here's how to do the transfer:
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. 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). How to Get to This Page on the Internet
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