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your
name__________________________
How to get to
this page on the Internet
- Go to the Cabrillo
College Library homepage <http://libwww.cabrillo.edu>
- Click on Internet
Links
- Click on Criminal
Justice
- Scroll down
to Course-Related Materials and click on
CJ 1, Introduction to Criminal Justice, E. Rodriguez
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That way you can get back to it easily.
Your
Assignment and Writing a Research Paper.
You may have a topic in mind. Or, look through your textbook to get an idea for a topic Or, use some of these sources:
Initial ideas about your topic ___________________________
_______________________________________________
| Begin your research -- Books |
The court case
I'm using an an example is Gideon v. Wainwright 372
U.S. 335 (1963) Not every case or law gets a book written about it.
But, you'll want to check to see what's available.
| In
Aptos |
In
Watsonville |
- Go to
the Cabrillo College Library
homepage
- Click
on Library Catalog
You can
ask at the ILC that a book be brought from Aptos to the Watsonville
Center for you. |
- Go to
Watsonville Public
Library
- Under
Catalog, click to select Basic Search
Probably
best to do a simple keyword search. |
Search one or
both catalogs for information about your topic. Note information about
a book here:
Title____________________________________________
Year__________
Should it be available, or is it checked out?
______________________________
Whenever you're
researching, and you're having a bit of trouble finding just what
you want, feel free to get some help. If you're in the library, stop
by the Reference Desk to talk with a librarian, or call the Reference
Desk at 479.6163. You can also ask via email -- from the Library homepage,
click on Ask a Librarian.
Electronic
books: The library has over 15,000 electronic books (eBooks).
In order to access all the eBooks:
- Go to the Cabrillo
College Library homepage (link is on top of this page)
- Click on Full
Text Articles
- Under General
(top left), click on NetLibrary E-Books
Search for
an eBook on your topic. What did you find?
_____________________________________________
_____________________________________________
To read eBooks
from off campus, type in your Library card number when you are asked
for it.
| Continue
searching: Periodical articles &
newspapers |
Periodical
articles -- Academic Search Premier provides
access to information about articles published in approximately
8000 periodicals (both magazines and journals) for about the last
15 or more years. Full text copies of many of the articles are in
the database.
- Go to the Cabrillo
College Library homepage
- Click on Full
Text Articles
- On the next
screen, under Social Sciences (over in righthand
column), click on Academic Search Premier. [Use your
library card number if you are coming in from off campus.]
- On the next
screen, select
- Click in the
small box next to Full Text. This will limit your search to
articles that are fulltext in the database.
- Type in your
search terms. Then click on Search
Click
on article titles to get to the screen with full information about
them.
Search for
an article on your topic.
Title of article___________________________________________
Periodical (look
where it says Source)__________________
Note that you
can email these articles to yourself. Nifty.
Other databases
you might want to use include
- MasterFILE
Premier
- Military and
Government Collection
The databases
are all available by going to the Cabrillo College Library
homepage, then clicking on Full Text Articles.
Newspapers
The case or law or other topic you are researching will have
been in the news at some point. In the example I'm using, Gideon
v. Wainwright was decided in 1963. It overturned Betts v. Brady
(1942), and I can add that case to my research.
- Go to the Cabrillo
College Library homepage
- Click on Full
Text Articles (second icon down, on left)
- Over on the
right, under News, click on
- Historical
New York Times for coverage 1851-2003
- Proquest
Newspapers
for major U.S. newspapers from recent years
Search The
Historical New York Times or Proquest Newspapers
for an article about your topic. What did you find?
Title of article___________________________________________
Date of New York
Times____________________________
Note that you
can email these articles. Very cool.
When you go out
on the Web to do searching on your own, remember that since anyone can
publish on the Web (and since it seems as though everyone does),
it's important to critically
evaluate the Web resources you run across. Here are some hints for
doing that:
Some useful criteria
to use for evaluative purposes are:
|
Accuracy |
Authority |
Objectivity |
Currency |
Coverage |
Some "tricks"
to use in evaluating Web sites
1. Frequently, authors of Web pages include a date to indicate
when the page was last updated. Look towards the bottom of the Web
page to see if there's a date.
2. Examine the domain name carefully. Usually, but not always, domain
names in the U.S. that end in .com are commercial, those that
end in .gov are governmental, .edu is for educational
institutions, and .org is for nonprofits and other organizations.
3. Frequently,
but not always, a tilde (the symbol ~) prior to a file name indicates
that it is someone's personal Web page. Some places on the Web are
in the business of hosting personal Web pages. When a domain name
has geocities, angelfire, tripod, or aol
in it, the Web page is probably a personal one.
4. If a site has a long file name, try taking off the last part of the
URL to see the Web page or site to which it is hooked.
Many
of us use Google. Here are two
other search engines you might want to try: Ask.com
and Exalead.com, both ot which
suggest ways of narrowing and broadening your topic.
Search for quality
Web resources on your topic. What did you find?
______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________
| Transfer
an image from the Web to a Word document |
The
Web is rich in images -- not just pictures, but charts and graphs
as well. You should feel very comfortable transferring an image from
the Web to a Word document. Do this little exercise if you're a bit
unsure.
Go
to one of these sites and select a chart or graph (click to enlarge
the image, when possible)
-
-
Key
Facts from the Office of the Attorney General, California
To
insert an image into a Word document:
- From the
Start menu bring up Word
- Right
click on the image. Scroll down to Copy
- Go
to your Word document. Position your cursor to where
you want your image to be. Paste the picture
(File -> Paste; or, use Ctl V)
- Under (or
near) the image, type the word Source and include the title
of the Web site and its URL.
Your
image is there. Word is not PhotoShop (an expensive software program
for altering images) -- you can't really "doctor up" your
image, but you can do some manipulations.
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 Layout tab, and select the wrapping format you want.
You can also, you'll note, change the size and do some other minor
alterations
Other
places to get images on the Web:
Mashups
are Web resources created when one set of Web resources are "mashed
up" against a database. For example:
ChicagoCrime
-- combines information about what crimes arecommitted with maps
showing where the crimes happened
How
to get to this page on the Internet
- Go to the Cabrillo
College Library homepage <http://libwww.cabrillo.edu>
- Click on Internet
Links
- Click on Criminal
Justice
- Scroll down
to Course-Related Materials and click on
CJ 1, Introduction to Criminal Justice, E. Rodriguez
E. Rodriguez and
T. N. Smalley last rev. 3/08 |
