Research

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Research Discover

• English 102 the Library
• Megan Lowe, Reference Librarian

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Session Overview
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Research FYI Things to Remember

• Rule NO FOOD OR DRINK IN THE LIBRARY!
• Rule NO TALKING ON YOUR CELL PHONE IN THE
  LIBRARY!
• Give yourself time to do research right
• Keywords are your friends
• Dont procrastinate!
• And dont hit gtgtgtgtgtgtgtgtgtgtgtgtgt

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Research FYI Finding Topics

• A good place to start when trying to decide what
  to write about YOU!
• What are your hobbies? Something unusual (like
  underwater basket-weaving) could make for very
  interesting writing.
• Whats your major? What do you hope to do with
  your degree? Why did you pick nursing rather
  than, say, pharmacy?
• What are your interests? For example, Im
  interested in serial killers and forensics. ?

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Research FYI Finding Topics

• Whats your favorite TV show? What common themes
  or issues does the show address? Use that for a
  topic. If youre interested in the show Lost,
  you could write about wormholes or the science
  behind Lost.
• Do you read the news? What news stories capture
  your interest the most? Use that as a starting
  point for a topic.

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Research FYI Finding Topics

• What kinds of books do you read? Maybe youre
  into the Twilight series or Harry Potter. You
  could analyze how vampires have been depicted in
  literature, or compare the Harry Potter movies
  with the books.
• Whats your favorite movie? Like TV shows, what
  kinds of issues or themes does the movie address?

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Research FYI - Topics

• Once youve settled on a topic, start a list of
  ideas and words related to the topic. This will
  get you started developing keywords that youll
  use for searching.
• Treat the list like a brainstorming session, too.
  You want to write about vampires but what do
  you want to say about them? What is the message
  youre trying to send?

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Research FYI Brainstorming Visual
Dracula 2000
Ultraviolet
Serbian folklore
Anne Rice
Twilight
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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Keywords Example

• Thesis Vampirism appears in various forms in
  movies, books, and TV.
• Vampirism vampires blood-drinkers
• Movies films
• Books literature short stories novels
• Specific persons Dracula OR Anne Rice OR
• Words like theme or focus or topic are good, too
• When you conduct a search in the Catalog or the
  Databases, youll combine the terms using AND
• Vampires AND literature AND themes

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Library Website
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What Are Resources?
Our resources come in two flavors Print and
Electronic!
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Where Do You Start?

• If you need a crash course Internet
• If you need an overview, Books
• or general information
• If you need specific,
  Periodicals
• up-to-date information
• Books and periodicals are best for research!

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Evaluating Resources - FYI

• Not all resources are created equal.
• Not all resources are appropriate for research.
• Not all professors will accept the same kinds of
  resources.
• Evaluation is essential, especially when it comes
  to the Internet.

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Evaluating Periodicals

• Scholarly

• Popular

• Written by experts
• Intended for others in the field
• Jargon Technical language of the discipline
• No ads
• Illustrations graphics
• Peer-review
• REAL research

• Written by journalists
• Intended for anybody a much wider audience
• Every language even slang and profanity
• Lots of ads
• Eye candy
• Editorial process
• Articles of interest, news, opinion pieces,
  editorials

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Scholarly vs Popular Examples

• Scholarly Shakespeare Quarterly
• Popular People
• Scholarly Journal of Sports Medicine
• Popular Sports Illustrated
• Scholarly Family Consumer Research Journal
• Popular Real Simple

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The Librarys Resources
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The Librarys Resources

• Remember the Library is an ideal source of
  scholarly information.
• The Library is not just a building full of books
  we have many resources you can use without
  having to be in the Library!
• There are librarians in the Library who are
  willing and able to help you!
• There are two main sources of information the
  Catalog and the Databases.

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Need Books?
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Books Catalog
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Catalog
William Faulkner and race and novel
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Catalog
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Electronic Books NetLibrary Ebrary

• Our book collection includes 70,000 books that
  arent on the shelf they exist electronically,
  via two collections NetLibrary and Ebrary
• Both are available off-campus, once you create an
  account on campus
• When you search the Catalog, these collections
  are searched, but you can search them without
  searching the Catalog

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NetLibrary Ebrary
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NetLibrary Account Search
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Ebrary

• Ebrary can do a few things NetLibrary cant do
• Highlight text in the book
• Add stickies to the pages
• Read to you
• Generate citations for your bibliography
• Youll need an account to keep records of
  highlighting, stickies, and search histories.

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Ebrary Search
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Ebrary Account
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Need articles?
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Articles Databases!

• Databases are searchable collections of articles
  from real newspapers, journals, and magazines
• Some databases will provide you with the entire
  article (this is called full-text) some dont
  provide full-text
• The databases are available off-campus, but more
  on that later

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Articles Databases
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Databases By Subject
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Databases English
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Databases Ebscohost
This will allow you to add more databases to your
search, which will give you more resources!
These make life easier use them!
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Databases Ebscohost
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Databases Ebscohost - Citations
Click here to cite the article
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Databases Ebscohost - Citations
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Accessing Databases from Home
CWID
MMYY
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Q A Time
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English 102 (Griggs) FYI

• Presentation URL
• http//www.ulm.edu/lowe/english102g.ppt
• MLA Style Help The Owl _at_ Purdue
• http//owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/
  01/
• My Website chockful o info!
• http//www.ulm.edu/lowe
• My Contact Info
• lowe_at_ulm.edu
• 342-3041

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Thanks for coming!

• Remember, if you need help, all you have to do is
  ask at the Reference Desk or email us at
  reference_at_ulm.edu