Today we discussed strategies for locating articles in the library’s subscription databases. I hope you found some useful information sources while you searched, and don’t forget that you should continue to develop your list of Works Cited, even if you’ve already submitted the Annotated Bibliography. A few of you mentioned finding even better sources than the ones you’ve already described in the Annotated Bibliography. Check the course site later this week or over the weekend for the research paper draft guidelines, which I’ll distribute in class on Monday.
Slides for today are available here. The slide listing best databases for your topics may come in handy, as it also contains a link to off-campus access instructions and the link to the searchable list of e-journals.
The midterm evaluation period ends on Monday, April 2, so if you have any written work to hand in, please do so before that date.
Next week we’ll be discussing how and why to evaluate information in all formats. For Monday, April 2 please read Fister, “The devil in the details: Media representation of ritual abuse and evaluation of sources” and Grimmelman, “The Google Dilemma.” Whoa, we’ll be reading Fister and Grimmelman for Wednesday. For Monday, please review the following sites on information evaluation techniques: UC Berkeley and Cornell.
Please write one research journal blog post responding to the prompt below:
Do a search on your research topic in at least one internet search engine and one library database.
What words or phrases did you use to search?
What are the similarities and differences between the results of your two searches?
Enjoy the weekend!
~Prof. L.
