Your Assignment

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Your Assignment

• Read an article, on an assigned topic, from one
  of the Sayre databases, a News Magazine, a
  Health Magazine or a local newspaper
• Sayre Databases 1. EBSCO
  (KYVL indikids frisby13)
• 2. NewsBank (sayre library)
  3. SIRS (sayre library)
• News Magazines
  Health Magazines
• 1. Time 5. Current
  Health II
• 2. Newsweek 6.
  Prevention
• 3. US News World Report
  7. Health
• 4. Science News
• Newspapers Lexington Herald-Leader
• Louisville
  Courier Journal

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Outline for your paper

• Choose an article that is at least 2 pages long.
• Write, in your journal, a paper that is at least
  1 page long.
• A. Title Article Title
• B. Citation
• C. 1st paragraph Summary
• 2nd paragraph Evaluation Reflection
• 3rd paragraph ?s raised by article
• Citation 20 points
• Each Paragraph 10 points

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Remember Biology?

• Stem Cell Research An Annotated Bibliography
• Holland, Suzanne. The Human Embryonic Stem Cell
  Debate Science, Ethics, and Public Policy.
  Boston MIT Press, 2001.
•  This is the annotation of the above source. In
  this example, I am following MLA guidelines for
  the bibliographic information listed above. If I
  was really writing an annotation for this source,
  I would now write a brief summary of what this
  book says about stem cell research.
• Paragraph 2
• Paragraph 3

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Citing Magazines

• Magazine article When citing magazine articles,
  give the complete date, but do not include volume
  and issue number. The title of the article should
  be in quotation marks, and the title of the
  magazine underlined. The standard format is
• Author. "Title of Article." Title of Magazine Day
  Month Year pages. For example Alter,
  Jonathan. "A different kind of war." Newsweek 3
  Aug. 1998 27.

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Citing Newspapers

• Newspaper articleIf the newspaper is a local
  one, and the city name is not included in the
  title of the newspaper, give the city in
  parentheses after the newspaper title. For
  example, Courier-Journal (Louisville). Include
  the complete date, section and page numbers. If a
  specific edition is stated, give the edition
  information after the date. For example
  Gorman, Linda. "Anti-gun law is real danger."
  Denver Post 20 Jan. 1999 B7.
• "Stagnant sales brought more lethal guns,
  critics say." News Observer (Raleigh) 14 Feb.
  1999, final ed. A10.

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Citing Database Articles

• HELP is your friend!
• Go to Citation Styles, then MLA Style to see
  examples
• In general
• Authors Last Name, First Name. Article
  Title. Magazine Title Date of original source
  page(s). Database Name. Date Accessed
  http//www.epnet.com.

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Finding the EBSCO Database

• Sayre Library Catalog
• QuickLinks
• KYVL
• Find Books Articles
• EBSCOhost
• MAS Ultra School Edition
• Indikidsfrisby13