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Maximizing Your Research: Library Tools and Citation Styles Explained

Join us today as we explore how McKillop Library supports your research journey. Led by Dawn Emsellem, Outreach and Instruction Librarian, we'll cover essential topics, including how to start your research, find helpful encyclopedias, locate books and articles, and understand the purpose and styles of citation. Learn the key steps in the research process, navigate article databases and book catalogs, and discover citation methods like MLA, APA, and Chicago/Turabian. Enhance your skills and credibility as a researcher!

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Maximizing Your Research: Library Tools and Citation Styles Explained

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  1. Welcome EAP 112! Today we’ll be learning how the library can help you with your research. I’ll be your instructor today! Dawn Emsellem Outreach and Instruction Librarian (401) 341-2336 dawn.emsellem@salve.edu McKillop Library First Floor, Room 130

  2. What we’ll be learning • How to start your research • Helpful encyclopedias • How to find books • How to find articles • What is citation?

  3. Steps in the research Process

  4. Where Do I Go for Books? Articles? Looking for articles? Use an article database Looking for books? Use the book catalog

  5. Citation Purpose: • Give credit • Provide credibility to your ideas • Let readers find your sources

  6. Citation Major Styles: • Modern Language Association (“MLA”) Humanities (English, Spanish, French, Art) • American Psychological Association (“APA”) Sciences and Social Sciences (Psychology, Economics, Chemistry, Biology, Nursing) • Chicago Manual of Style/Kate Turabian (“Chicago/Turabian”) Different disciplines use Chicago and Turabian

  7. Elements of Citation • Parenthetical in-text citations • Bibliography/References/Works Cited

  8. Parenthetical In-Text Citation A citation placed in the body of the text, at the end of a sentence.

  9. Endnotes A citation or explanatory note placed at the end of a paper or chapter.

  10. Footnotes A citation or explanatory note placed at the bottom of a page.

  11. Bibliography/References/Works Cited The list of books, journal articles, newspaper articles, videos, and other sources you consulted to write the paper.

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