Cabrillo College Library

Research people

Doing more searching

Finding periodical articles

Transfer an Image

Evaluate this Session

How to Get to this Page on the Web

READ 205

 

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your name

Before we get started -- Earth at Night || Prudhoe Bay || Map of Egypt

  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage -- from the Cabrillo College homepage, click on Resources, Labs & Library, then on Library (center top)
  2. Make it a Favorite -- Towards the top of the screen, click on , then on Add to Favorites. Whenever you want to come back to it in this class session, you can find it easily by clicking on
  3. Then, from the Library homepage, click on Internet Links
  4. Select Reading
  5. Scroll down and under Course-Related Materials, click on READ 205 for J. Hanks
  6. Make it a Favorite too.
Research people

There are some good electronic resources you can use to find information about famous people such as writers. This exercise will give you a chance to explore a number of these. The full text online resources are available from off campus with your library card number.

Biography Resource Center

  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
  2. Click on Full Text Articles (second icon down on left)
  3. Click on Biography Resource Center (in the center column under Literature) If you use this from off campus, you'll be asked for your library card number.

You are going to search for information about Elie Wiesel and/or Alexie Sherman (you choose). Type in their names like this:

Biography Resource Center

Scroll down and select one of the essays to read by clicking on the underlined name -- that is the link to what you can read about the author.

Read through information. In one or two sentences, summarize something you learned.

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Doing more searching

Use Literature Resource Center
  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
  2. Click on Full Text Articles
  3. Click on Literature Resource Center


    Do a title search for Night, clicking to make it an exact title search:

    Note down something you learned or found interesting

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Finding 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.
  2. Under General, click to go to Academic Search Premier
  3. 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.
  4. Look for an article about Alexie Sherman and his book Flight or look for an article about Elie Wiesel and his book Night. Your search would look this this for Alexie Sherman:

Once you have typed your terms in, click on

Use Academic Search Premier to identify at least one periodical article on either Elie Wiesel and Night or Alexie Sherman and Flight.   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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Date of periodical_______________

What is something you learned from the article?

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

Transfer an Image from the Web to a Word Documnt

The Web is rich in images. 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 -- highlight the URL, then Ctrl C to copy and Ctrl V to paste).

Go to one of the following sites and select an image.

To insert an image into a Word document:

  1. Bring up a Word document       START -> Programs ->Word
  2. Go to your image. Right click on it. Scroll down to Copy
  3. 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)
  4. 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. 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 change the size and do some other minor alterations.

Before you leave today, please evaluate this Web exercise. Thanks!

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 (third icon down on the left)
  3. Click on Reading
  4. Scroll down to Course-Related Materials and click on READ 205, J. Hanks.

 

J. Hanks; T. N. Smalley last rev. 2/08