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Mastering Research and Writing: Navigating the Media Center

A comprehensive guide on researching and writing papers, including tips on finding information, using textbooks and online resources, quotations and bibliography. Essential for academic success.

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Mastering Research and Writing: Navigating the Media Center

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  1. RESEARCH Surviving the Media Center, Writing Papers, and other Tales of Woe

  2. Finding Information Steps • Textbook/Your assigned book • CD-ROMs • Card Catalog- look for Biography on your author if available Literary Criticisms are 800s and REF 800s 5. GALILEO- See handout 6. Internet

  3. Where to Start Results will NOT include reference books which have multiple author articles • Card Catalog Search

  4. Reference Books • Reference books are organized by Dewey, so Literature is…..?

  5. REF Books Critical Essays Sample of article sample literary criticism.pdf • Summary on first page • Multiple authors within article • Paraphrasing/quotations

  6. Search Engines • GALILEO- through resultshttp://www.galileo.usg.edu/ • Choose Literary Reference Center and EncylopediaBrittanica as your databases • Have to have password for use at home

  7. Quotations, Paraphrasing • Quotation Marks for Exact Words • Paraphrasing is your words the way that you would say it- not just changing two out of ten of the author’s words • Over five lines must be indented http://www.aresearchguide.com/5quoting.html

  8. Bibliography What info do I have to have? Make sure you write down info for BOTH article and book. • Author • Title • Place of Publication • Publisher • Date of Publication • Page Numbers Rule of Thumb: If I walked into the media center, could I find your exact book by the one line you are putting in your bibliography?

  9. Bib Examples • One author or editor Biale, David, ed. Cultures of the Jews: A New History. New York: Schocken, 2002. • Two or three authors or editors Palmer, R.R., Joel Colton, and Lloyd Kramer. A History of the Modern World: To 1815. 9th ed. New York: Knopf, 2002. • More than three Hogan, David J., et al., eds. The Holocaust Chronicle: A History in Words and Pictures. Lincolnwood, IL: International, 2000.

  10. Bib Examples Article in an Anthology (Literary Criticism) Altman, Dorothy Jewell. “Harper Lee.” Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 6: American Novelists Since World War II Second Series. Ed. James E. Kibler, Jr. Detriot: Gale Research, 1980. 180-183.

  11. Internet • Phillips, Brian. “Sparknote on Romeo and Juliet." SparkNotes. 17 Sept. 2007        <http://nfs.sparknotes.com/romeojuliet/characters.epl Author, Title, name of Site, Date you looked at it, url

  12. Bibliography Page • Alphabetical by author • Use “hanging” paragraph format • Indent the second line of citations Sample

  13. Advice • Most importantly, READ YOUR DIRECTIONS and bring your handout and bib sheet with you daily • Use pencil while doing research. • Use the Citation Machine • Use the media center website for help • Bring note cards, pencil, and paper daily • Get a rubber band to hold your cards together and don’t put them in a folder that they can fall out of • Lastly, don’t wait until the last minute to work on your paper

  14. THAT’S ALL FOLKS!

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