Cabrillo College Library

What's on This Page

Background Info

Books

Periodical Articles 

Web

Style Manuals

Transfer Images

Share Your Thoughts

Get to This Internet Page


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Before we get started

  1. Go to the page for this class -- From the Cabrillo College Library homepage, click on Internet Links, then select English, then scroll down and under Course-Related Materials, click on ENGL 1 AMC, College Composition: Multicultural Emphasis, E. Omosupe
  2. Go to -> Add, then click Add. Now, you'll be able to go back to this page easily while you are here in the class by clicking on .
Background information on your poet

For good biographical background information

  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
  2. Click on Full Text Articles
  3. Under Literature (in the center column), click on Biography Resource Center

What did you find out about your poet? (Sometimes, your poet's name will be the same as other writers' names, and you may need to know your poet's birth year. Let me know if you need help.)

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For good literary background information

  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
  2. Click on Full Text Articles
  3. Under Literature (in the center column), click on Literature Resource Center

What did you find out about your poet?

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Need more discussion? Need definitions? We have a new reference tool that provides access through one portal to hundreds of specialized dictionaries and encyclopedias. It's called Xreferplus. To get to it:

  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
  2. Click on Full Text Articles
  3. Under Encyclopedias/Background Information (in the center column), click on Xreferplus

What did you find out about your poet?

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Find Books

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

If your poet is well-known, there may be a whole book about him or her. Do a Subject search to see:
Otherwise, you can stay in Basic search and search using quotations around the name of your poet (that keeps the words next to each other):

Now, the results list will show that there are books in which James Welch is discussed as a poet:

What did you find out about your poet?

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You're welcome to go downstairs to the stacks and get some books and bring them back to the classroom.

Electronic Books -- The library has access to about 15,000 electronic books, called eBooks. When you are off campus, you just need to type in your library card number. To search the eBooks:

  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
  2. Click on Full Text Articles
  3. Under General (top left), or under Literature, click on NetLibrary E-Books

Type in your search terms -- probably your poet's name -- and hit Search.

What did you find out about your poet?

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More books

There are some wonderful reference books that talk about literary figures and their times, and books just about the times.

Literature and Its Times Detroit: Gale Research, 1997-   There are 5 volumes in this set. Volume 5 covers Civil Rights Movements to Future Times (1960-2000). Here's its call number: ref PN50.L574 1997 v. 5

America in the 20th Century. New York: Marshall Cavendish, 1995. vol. 7 covers 1960-69; vol. 8 covers 1970-79; vol. 9 covers 1980-89; vol. 10 covers 1990+ ref E169.1.A471872 1995

I have these at the front of the class room for today's session, along with:

ABC-CLIO Companion to The 1960s Counterculture in America, by Neil A. Hamilton. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO Press, 1997. ref E169.02.H3515 1997

American Decades 1960-1969, ed. by Richard Layman. Detroit: Gale Research, 1995.ref E169.12.A419 1994-

Contemporary Women Poets, ed. by Pamela L. Shelton. Detroit: St. James Press, 1998. ref PS151.C67 1998

Dictionary of Native American Literature, ed. by Andrew Wiget. New York: Garland, 1994. ref PM155.D53 1994

Social Protest Literature: An Encyclopedia of Works, Characters, Authors, and Themes, by Patricia D. Netzley. Denver: ABC-CLIO, 1999. ref PN56.S65N48 1999

Find Periodical Articles 

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. 

  1. From the Cabrillo College Library homepage, click on Full Text Articles.
    Under General, click to go to Academic Search Premier
  2. On the next screen, click on . 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.
  3. Type in your search terms and hit .

Use Academic Search Premier to identify at least one periodical article about your poet.  From the results list, click on the article title to get to the screen with more information.  

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Periodical title (look where the screen says Source) 

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For fun, go back to Academic Search Premier, and try a Visual Search. Wow!!

There is a nifty email feature -- once your article is on your screen, click on E-mail towards the top of the screen.

Another large database is MasterFILE Premier. It's on the Full Text Articles page, under the link to Academic Search Premier. You can actually search both at once. If you would like me to show you how to do that, just ask!

Look for Web Sites on Your Own

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!

Smart Searching Google is now doing what it calls Universal Searching. Your words will be searched on Web pages, videos, books, journal articles (in the database called Scholar). Here, Google is telling you there is enough information on the topic in books that you might want to switch over and just search books.

Getting to a list of Internet Search Engines

  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
  2. Click on Search the Internet
  3. Click on 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.

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A little bit tired of Googling? Want to try something else? Go to Grokker.com. Search results are presented in a concept mapping format. Or try Exalead or Ask.com.

Videos

You're probably aware that the Web now has videos galore. There are a lot of outrageous ones, of course. But, there are good ones as well. The main sources of videos are:

Blinkx.com -- includes lots of stuff from TV programs like news and the History channel
YouTube.com (and Google bought YouTube of $1.6 billion a while back so look out! )

To watch the video, on these public machines in the classroom, you have to hold down the Ctrl key when you click to bring up the video. (Notice what it says at the bottom of the screen.)

Style Manuals

How do you reference your resources?

  1. From the Cabrillo College Library homepage, click on Internet Links
  2. On the next screen, click on Style Guides
Transfer an Image from the Web into a Word Document

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 -- corbis.com or gettyimages.com. Here's how to do the transfer:

  1. From the Start menu, bring up Word
  2. Go back to Corbis or gettyimages where your image is. Right click on the image. Scroll down to Copy
  3. Go back to your Word document. Position your cursor to where you want your image to be. Paste the image (File -> Paste; or use Ctrl V)

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.

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).

Please tell us what you thought of this Web exercise. Thanks.
How to Get to This Page on the Internet 
  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage    http://libwww.cabrillo.edu
  2. Click on Internet Links
  3. Go to English
  4. Under Course-Related Materials, click on ENGL 1 AMC, College Composition: Multicultural Emphasis, E. Omosupe

 

E. Omosupe and T. N. Smalley
9/07