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Background Info

Books

Periodical Articles 

Web

Style Manuals

Transfer Images

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English 1 AMC 

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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 (I may have done this already for you -- click on Favorites to see!)
    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

If you have not already selected a poet and a poem, try using these resources

For good biographical background information about your poet

  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
  2. Click on Full Text Articles [When you use these full text resources from off campus, you need your
    library card number.]
  3. Under Literature (in the center column), click on Biography Resource Center

Suppose you had selected Maya Angelou as your poet.

Click to bring up the essay.

Look for essays on your poet. What did you find?

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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? The Library has an online reference tool that provides access through
one portal to hundreds of specialized dictionaries and encyclopedias. It's called CREDO reference. 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 CREDO reference

Type in your poet's name.

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.

If your poet is well-known, there may be a whole book about him or her. Do a Subject search to see,
typing in last name first.

Otherwise, you can stay in Keyword search and use quotation marks 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 Maya Angelou is discussed:

Search the online catalog for books about your poet. What did you find?

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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 about 18,000 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

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Type in your search terms -- probably your poet's name in quotation marks -- 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+ Here's its call number: ref E169.1.A471872 1995

These books are 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 Advanced Search
      
    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 full text articles on the database.
  3. Type in your search terms and hit  SEARCH -- see example on next page

    search.

Click on the article title to get full information about it. And note these features:

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.  

Article title___________________________________________________________________________________________ 

Periodical title (look where the screen says Source) 

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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!

When you search Google, the words you type in will be searched in Web pages, videos, books, journal articles,
etc. In the search pictured below, Google is telling you there is enough information on the topic in books that
you might want to switch over and just search books.

google 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 your poet.

Make notes below about 2 quality Web sites you find.

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2. URL____________________________

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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

To watch the video, on these public machines in the classroom, you have to disable popup blockers.
To do that, hold down the Ctrl key when you click to bring up the video.

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 Guide

Remember that for periodical articles found in the library's databases, you can click to have an MLA citation formatted for you.

For books, you can use WorldCat.org to look up a book and then have it cited for you -- click on Cite/Export.

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 gettyimages.com and select an image. 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 the image, type the word Source and 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).

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 9/09