English 102

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English 102 Research

• a presentation on resources
• presented by Megan Lowe Reference Librarian

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Session Overview

• FYI
• Pre-Research
• Keywords
• Evaluating Resources
• Finding Sources
• Summarizing Paraphrasing
• Quotations Citations
• Q A

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FYI

• Library Rules
• FOOD DRINK ARE NOT PERMITTED
• TALKING ON YOUR CELL PHONE IS NOT PERMITTED - but
  texting is
• ALSO RINGERS SHOULD BE SET TO VIBRATE OR SILENT
• Violation of these rules may result in a
  suspension of library privileges
• Always check the Librarys website for hours of
  operation

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Pre-Research

• Make sure you have a manageable topic in mind
  when doing research
• Nursing is too broad
• but ethical issues in psychiatric nursing is
  much more manageable!
• Outlines can help you organize your thoughts and
  arrange your paper to make the most effective
  argument
• Brainstorming keywords before you start
  researching can speed the process up

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Pre-Research Keywords

• Thesis
• There is a shortage of social workers in the
  United States because many social workers burn
  out, suffer personal injury or danger, and face
  an enormous workload every day.
• Keywords are in pink and underlined.

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Pre-Research Keywords

• Keywords synonyms and related terms
• Shortage lack
• Social workers
• United States America USA
• Burn out as a verb burnout as a noun
• Personal injury injury harm
• Danger risk hazard threat peril
• Workload work caseload

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Pre-Research Keyword Searching

• Keyword searching allows you to combine ideas
  together
• If you search the Catalog on serial killers,
  youll get EVERYTHING on serial killers
• but if you search on serial killers AND men AND
  United States, youll only get resources about
  serial killers and men in the United States
• Keyword searching reduces the number of resources
  youll have to wade through

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Pre-Research Evaluating Resources

• Its not enough to just find resources you need
  to know whats GOOD and whats BAD for research
• Some resources are inappropriate for research
  they dont contain scholarly information
• Scholarly resources are what you need for an
  awesome research paper

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Pre-Research Identifying Scholarly

• Focuses on one particular discipline
• Written by experts and practitioners from that
  discipline
• Intended for others in that field
• No ads
• Peer-reviewed
• Jargon Technical language of the field

• Contains real research and is research-based

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Pre-Research Examples

• Shakespeare Quarterly
• Journal of Food and Nutrition
• American Journal of Knee Surgery
• Library Quarterly
• Journal of ER Nursing
• Annals of Oncology
• Textbooks
• Non-fiction books

Usually written by dudes who look like this guy
(just kidding!)
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Finding Resources

• Remember the Library is a great place to find
  scholarly resources its chockful of scholarly
  resources!
• The Library also has librarians who can help you
  if you need help all you have to do is ask! (We
  dont read minds. Yet.)
• Remember before starting research, have a
  manageable topic.
• Also, know what kinds of resources you need.
  Books? Articles? This helps!

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Finding Resources Books
ULM Catalog
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Finding Resources Books
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Finding Resources Books
marijuana and legal
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Finding Resources Books
These tell you which floor the book is on, and
where on the floor. Also, which collection!
This tells you whether or not its checked out.
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Finding Resources Articles

• that means articles from newspapers, magazines,
  and professional journals

Databases
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Finding Resources Articles
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Finding Resources Articles
Pick what works for your topic!
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Finding Resources Databases
Good place to start!
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Finding Resources Databases
Pick your databases based on your topic. Each
database has a description that tells you what
topics it covers. READ THE DESCRIPTIONS.
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Finding Resources Databases
These make it all easier USE THEM!
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Finding Resources Databases
It has to say it has Full Text or its not full
text. Some articles wont be available in full
text.
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Finding Resources Databases
This will make life easier click on it to get
the article cited for you! MLA included!
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Finding Resources Databases
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Summarizing Paraphrasing

• These are two very important tools when writing a
  paper. Your professor is going to expect you to
  use other resources, but he or she doesnt want
  to read a paper thats nothing but quotations.
• Summarizing is taking a chunk of text and boiling
  it down to its most important parts the
  bubblegum center of a Blow Pop

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Summarizing

• Children are totally insensitive to their
  parents' shyness it is the rare child who labels
  a parent shy ... This is understandable, since
  parents are in positions of control and authority
  in their homes and may not reveal their shy side
  to their children. Also, since shyness is viewed
  as undesirable by many children, it may be
  threatening to think of parents in these terms.
  At this young age, the parent is still idealized
  as all-knowing and all-powerful - - not dumb,
  ugly, or weak."Zimbardo, Philip G. (1977).
  Shyness What it is, what to do about it.
  Cambridge, Mass. Perseus Books.

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Summarizing

• Children arent aware of their parents
  shyness, and may well choose to not notice that
  their parents are shy, since shyness is seen as
  unfavorable and threatening to the childrens
  stability.

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Paraphrasing

• Paraphrasing is a little different. Youre not
  reducing the information to its most important
  part in fact, a paraphrase may be as long as
  the selection being treated, but it doesnt have
  to be.
• Paraphrasing is re-telling the information,
  putting the information in your own words,
  usually to make the information easier to
  understand for the reader.

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Paraphrasing

• Children are totally insensitive to their
  parents' shyness it is the rare child who labels
  a parent shy ... This is understandable, since
  parents are in positions of control and authority
  in their homes and may not reveal their shy side
  to their children. Also, since shyness is viewed
  as undesirable by many children, it may be
  threatening to think of parents in these terms.
  At this young age, the parent is still idealized
  as all-knowing and all-powerful - - not dumb,
  ugly, or weak."Zimbardo, Philip G. (1977).
  Shyness What it is, what to do about it.
  Cambridge, Mass. Perseus Books.

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Paraphrasing

• Shyness is parents is something which the
  children of such adults might not notice. Parents
  are in positions of authority, they represent
  stability, and it may be disconcerting or
  destabilizing for the children to think of their
  parents as timid. Moreover, bashfulness is
  objectionable to children, and at a young age,
  parents are placed on a pedestal.

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Quotations Citations

• Yes, summarizing and paraphrasing can be good and
  keep a paper from being nothing more than a
  collection of related quotations
• but sometimes quotations can make a big impact
  in a paper. And quoting experts who agree with
  you makes your argument that much stronger, which
  makes your paper that much better.

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Quotations

• There are two main ways to quote
• 1. Direct Author Smith says Blah blah
• blah dee blah (32).
• 2. Indirect According to one author,
• Blah blah blah dee blah (Smith 32).
• Paraphrasing is considered a way to quote, too,
  cause you still have to put in a parenthetical
  citation like those above.

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Citations

• Any time you use someone elses work in yours,
  you have to give credit where credits due.
  Failure to do so will be considered plagiarism.
• If you direct quote, indirect quote, paraphrase,
  or summarize someone elses work, you will have
  to cite it.
• Even if you got that info off the Internet, you
  still have to cite it.

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Citations

• There are different style guides to use when
  citing resources MLA, APA, Turabian,
  Chicagothe list goes on and on!
• Different types of resources are cited
  differently and include different bits of
  information.
• Sometimes you wont be able to find out all the
  pieces. The important thing is to provide what
  information you do have.

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Citations MLA Style

• Book
• Zimbardo, Philip G. Shyness What It Is, What To
  Do About It. Cambridge, Mass. Perseus Books,
  1977.
• Essay/Chapter in a Book
• Swanson, Gunnar. "Graphic Design Education as a
  Liberal Art Design and Knowledge in the
  University and The 'Real World.'" The Education
  of a Graphic Designer. Ed. Steven Heller. New
  York Allworth Press, 1998. 13-24.

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Citations MLA Style

• Article
• Bagchi, Alaknanda. "Conflicting Nationalisms The
  Voice of the Subaltern in Mahasweta Devi's Bashai
  Tudu." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 15.1
  (1996) 41-50.
• Article from a Database
• Grabe, Mark. "Voluntary Use of Online Lecture
  Notes Correlates of Note Use and Note Use as an
  Alternative to Class Attendance." Computers and
  Education 44 (2005) 409-21. ScienceDirect.
  Purdue U Lib., West Lafayette, IN. 28 May 2006
  lthttp//www.sciencedirect.com/gt.

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Citations MLA Style

• Entire Website
• The Purdue OWL Family of Sites. 26 Aug. 2005. The
  Writing Lab and OWL at Purdue and Purdue
  University. 23 April 2006 lthttp//owl.english.purd
  ue.edugt.
• Page on a Website
• Stolley, Karl. "MLA Formatting and Style Guide."
  The OWL at Purdue. 10 May 2006. Purdue University
  Writing Lab. 12 May 2006 lthttp//owl.english.purdu
  e.edu/owl/resource/557/01/gt.

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Q A Time
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ENGLISH 102 Research Resources

• Presentation URL
• http//www.ulm.edu/lowe/english102mm.ppt
• MLA Style Help The OWL at Purdue
• http//owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/
  01/
• My Contact
• Website http//www.ulm.edu/lowe
• Email lowe_at_ulm.edu
• Phone [phone]

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Thanks for coming!

• Remember if you need help, all you have to do is
  ask!
• You can call us at 342-1071, or you can email us
  at reference_at_ulm.edu.
• You can email me, too!