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your topic about a social issue or problem? For example, Use CQ Researcher Each issue covers a single topic of current political or social interest. In 20 to 35 pages, major aspects of the topic are outlined, along with background information and a description of the current situation, and pro and con arguments on the important issues.
Note that you can email these articles to yourself (email button is at the top right of the Web page). On many of these public machines in the classroom, you have to hold down the Ctrl key when you click to bring up the CQ Researcher article. (It's a PopUp Blocker issue.) Your notes:
Other good resources for social issue topics
Your notes:
Electronic Books -- The library has access to about 18,000 electronic books, called eBooks. When you are off campus, you just need to type in your library card number to get access. To search the eBooks:
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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.
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_______________ Another large database is MasterFILE Premier.
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. Another newspaper database is Ethnic Newswatch especially good for cultural issues. In these newspaper databases, you can execute a machine translation of articles from English into many different languages. If you would like me to show you how to do that, just let me know!
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! Instead of using Google, many students use Librarians' Internet Index -- a directory of Web sites put together by librarians. All of these are judged to be of high quality. Try Librarians' Internet Index. 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
notes below about 3 quality Web sites you find.
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How do you reference your resources?
How to Get to This Page on the Internet
C. Chaffin and T. N. Smalley 4/08 |
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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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