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Finding Resources

Writing a successful research paper requires several key steps: identifying a topic, narrowing it down, and formulating a thesis statement. Understanding how many sources to include—typically, two sources per page for ten pages—is essential. Explore various resources, including primary and secondary sources, books, articles, journals, and online databases. Ensure you evaluate the credibility of your sources by recognizing signs of scholarly work. Keeping track of resources using organized cards can streamline the process and enhance your research efficiency.

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Finding Resources

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  1. Finding Resources

  2. Steps of Writing a Research: • Finding a topic • Narrowing the topic/ Thesis statement • Generating an argument • Finding Resources

  3. How many sources do you need? • 2 sources per page • 10 pages/ 20 resource PROBLEM TOO MANY TOO FEW

  4. Types of recourses Content • Primary (Novels, Poems, Plays etc.) • Secondary (Criticism and analysis) Form • Books • Articles (Journals, Periodicals, Magazines, Newspapers, Internet.. etc) • Others: Audio, Video, Interviews, Emails etc.

  5. Types of Articles • Collection of articles (researches) inside a book: scholar audience. • Journals: researches in forms of articles, published 4 times a year, thick non glossy papers , scholar audience. • Magazines: wide audience, published weekly or monthly, slick and glossy papers with colors and advertisements. • Newspapers: wide audience, daily or weekly

  6. First Steps: • Use the Library. • Using Encyclopedias. • Use the Internet • Find a local Authority. (my personal library) an offer

  7. How to use the library • Library catalogue • Periodical Collections • Special Collections • Reserve Room • MA. & PHD researches. • Oversized books

  8. Encyclopedias: • Wikipedia • Encyclopedia • Britannica

  9. How to use the internet? Understand the language of the internet: • Browser: Internet explorer, Google Chrome, Firefox • Homepage • Search Engine: Google, Windows live, Yahoo, etc. • Document • Link • Bookmark • HTML • PDF

  10. Search engines: • Google.com • Yahoo.com • Gigablast .com • MSN.com • Mamma.com • Google scholar (http://scholar.google.com) • Citeseer (http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/)

  11. Portals Portals are cites that serve as an introduction to other important internet sites on certain subjects by giving a collection of links to them. • Infomine: (http://infomine.ucr.edu/) • Merlot (http://www.merlot.org/)

  12. Hidden Internet Sites that require payment such as • EBSCO • ProQuest

  13. Evaluating information on the internet • Looks for signs of scholarship: good language level, analytical thinking, bibliography, logical organization. • Look for signs of lack of scholarship: Opinions without support of evidence , no resources • Forums, blogs, emails, facebook, twitter are not reliable recourses.

  14. How to properly keep track of your resources? • Use Card File (Resources Cards) • Small • Arranged alphabetically • Ease access in the future • Help you not lose your resources • Easily add new resources or cross out those you did not use.

  15. What should you include in each card?

  16. Book Card • Author’s name: last, first ex. (Dickens, Charles) • Title of the book (underlined) • Name of editor (if there is one) • Number of edition. • Number of Volume (if there is one) • City of publication • Name of publisher house • Date of publication

  17. Book card Example Rawlings, Peter. American Theorist of the Novel. London: Routledge, 2006.

  18. Article Card • Authors name: Last, first • Article’s title between “quotations marks.” • Name of journal (underlines), magazine, website, etc. • Volume number. • Issue number. • Edition number. • Publisher. • Date of publishing. • Pages number between square brackets [25-30] • Website link.

  19. Article Card: Sample Al.Saleh, Fadiyah. “A Need’s Profile of Freshers at English Departments in Girls College in Saudi Arabia.” Umm Al-Qura University Journal. Vol. 13. 9th Year. Makkah: Umm Al Qura University Press, 1996. [97-141].

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