Respond to the following questions in your own words. Your responses should include specific examples and should incorporate concepts and terms from Chapter 21 in your textbook. Describe the steps tha
© 2014 The McGraw -Hill Companies, Inc. College Writing Skills with Readings, 9/e Chapter Twenty - One Using the Library and the Internet College Writing Skills with Readings, 9/e John Langan © 2014 The McGraw -Hill Companies, Inc. Chapter 21 College Writing Skills with Readings, 9/e 21 - 2 Using the Library and the Internet For most research topics, you need to master two basic tasks: 1) finding books on your topic, and 2) finding articles on your topic. © 2014 The McGraw -Hill Companies, Inc. Chapter 21 College Writing Skills with Readings, 9/e 21 - 3 Using the Library and the Internet Two main avenues for finding books and articles are 1) the library and 2) the Internet . © 2014 The McGraw -Hill Companies, Inc. Chapter 21 College Writing Skills with Readings, 9/e 21 - 4 The Library The heart of any library consists of the following: • the main desk • the book stacks , and • the catalog of holdings. © 2014 The McGraw -Hill Companies, Inc. Chapter 21 College Writing Skills with Readings, 9/e 21 - 5 The Library • The main desk is usually located in a central spot. • In addition to checking out books there, you can usually also find information on the layout and services of the library. © 2014 The McGraw -Hill Companies, Inc. Chapter 21 College Writing Skills with Readings, 9/e 21 - 6 The Library Books, bound periodicals, and some other materials are kept in the library ’ s stacks. Some stacks are closed to students; in these cases, you need to fill out a form to request material. © 2014 The McGraw -Hill Companies, Inc. Chapter 21 College Writing Skills with Readings, 9/e 21 - 7 The Library The catalog of holdings is a list of all the materials available in the library. Formerly made up of cards in a set of drawers, catalogs today are usually computerized. © 2014 The McGraw -Hill Companies, Inc. Chapter 21 College Writing Skills with Readings, 9/e 21 - 8 The Library You can use the catalog to look up a book in one of three ways: 1) by author , 2) by title , or 3) by subject . © 2014 The McGraw -Hill Companies, Inc. Chapter 21 College Writing Skills with Readings, 9/e 21 - 9 The Library Here is a sample catalog entry : Author: Hersch, Patricia . Title: A tribe apart : a journey into the heart of American adolescence Edition: 1st ed. Description: 391 p. ; 25 cm. Published: New York : Fawcett Columbine, 1998. LC Subjects: Teenagers -- United States. Location: GIBBSBORO Call Number: HQ796 .H43 1998 Circulation Data: Overdue as of 05/31/2000 © 2014 The McGraw -Hill Companies, Inc. Chapter 21 College Writing Skills with Readings, 9/e 21 - 10 The Library If you are researching a topic, you should do a subject search, which can provide • a list of books on a given topic, • related topics , and • more limited topics , if you need help narrowing yours. © 2014 The McGraw -Hill Companies, Inc. Chapter 21 College Writing Skills with Readings, 9/e 21 - 11 The Library To locate periodical articles on your topic, you need to search periodicals indexes such as the Reader ’ s Guide to Periodical Literature . Most of these are now available in a digital database . © 2014 The McGraw -Hill Companies, Inc. Chapter 21 College Writing Skills with Readings, 9/e 21 - 12 Here is a sample entry in a periodicals index: Diet Cancer and Diet G. Cowley. il Newsweek 60 -66 N 30 ‘ 98 subject title author periodical page numbers “illustrated ” date The Library © 2014 The McGraw -Hill Companies, Inc. Chapter 21 College Writing Skills with Readings, 9/e 21 - 13 As with a book search, if you are researching a topic, you should use the indexes to do a subject search first. The Library © 2014 The McGraw -Hill Companies, Inc. Chapter 21 College Writing Skills with Readings, 9/e 21 - 14 You can also use the periodicals indexes to look up a specific article by author or by title . The Library © 2014 The McGraw -Hill Companies, Inc. Chapter 21 College Writing Skills with Readings, 9/e 21 - 15 Once you have located the book(s) and periodical(s) you need, you can proceed to the stacks (or request the materials). The Library © 2014 The McGraw -Hill Companies, Inc. Chapter 21 College Writing Skills with Readings, 9/e 21 - 16 The Internet The Internet is a giant network that connects computers at tens of thousands of institutions around the world. If you have an Internet connection , you have vast amounts of information literally at your fingertips. © 2014 The McGraw -Hill Companies, Inc. Chapter 21 College Writing Skills with Readings, 9/e 21 - 17 The Internet Your libraries -- school and/or public -- might well be online, in which case their catalogs and possibly digital databases (including periodicals indexes ) might be available online. © 2014 The McGraw -Hill Companies, Inc. Chapter 21 College Writing Skills with Readings, 9/e 21 - 18 The Internet If not, many large research libraries , public and private, offer limited access to their catalogs and databases. Try these: • www.columbia.edu (Columbia University) o www.loc.gov (Library of Congress) • www.nypl.org (New York Public Library) © 2014 The McGraw -Hill Companies, Inc. Chapter 21 College Writing Skills with Readings, 9/e 21 - 19 The Internet Major online booksellers such as Amazon.com are easy to search and offer information on a vast number of books, both in - and out - of - print. © 2014 The McGraw -Hill Companies, Inc. Chapter 21 College Writing Skills with Readings, 9/e 21 - 20 The Internet Just as in the case of library catalogs and indexes, the Internet also allows you to research a topic by subject . Search engines, which organize websites by categories, can be invaluable in such searches.Try Google.com or Yahoo.com . © 2014 The McGraw -Hill Companies, Inc. Chapter 21 College Writing Skills with Readings, 9/e 21 - 21 The Internet Search engines (Google, Yahoo and many others) will find websites that relate to your topic. The key to useful searches is the search terms you use. Use “ quotation marks ” and + plus - and -minus -signs to limit the number of “ hits ” your search yields. © 2014 The McGraw -Hill Companies, Inc. Chapter 21 College Writing Skills with Readings, 9/e 21 - 22 The Internet For example, if you want to know something about someone named “ Robert Lee ” ( not the U.S. General), you might type in +Robert Lee - “ Robert E. Lee ” This would eliminate many of the sites that discuss the General. © 2014 The McGraw -Hill Companies, Inc. Chapter 21 College Writing Skills with Readings, 9/e 21 - 23 Unlike traditional publishing, the Internet has virtually no safeguards in place to keep dishonest and/or incompetent people from publishing their work. WARNING : You must take extra care to EVALUATE websites you intend to use for research. The Internet