LIBRARY ORIENTATION DAY SUBSTITUTE SLIDE SHOW ENC 1101

LIBRARY ORIENTATION DAY SUBSTITUTE SLIDE SHOW

ENC 1101 homework (due Tuesday, Sept. 12): (1) Complete outline, upload 1000 word first draft of defi nition or classification essay on Canvas, submit it to a tu tor (Smar. Thinking or ASC), and bring ONE printout of the draft to class, (2) read chapters 8 11 (pp. 36 64) on intro duction, conclusion, organization, drafting, and revising, AND (3) following instructions in this slide show, upload one source citation for your definition or classification essay (in “Assignments” on Canvas), due Thursday, Sept. 14.

Finding and evaluating sources • A source is only worth using if it is reliable and provides quality, expert evidence that is up to date and well documented with primary and secondary materials. • How can you tell if a source is trustworthy and expert? (Continue to the next slides. )

Say you are writing about William Shakespeare’s Macbeth and want to know if Lady Macbeth is based on Shakespeare’s wife. What do you do?

Did you say, “Google it”? If you do, this is what you get! Say you are researching William ← DON’T TRUST Shakespeare’s life and want to know GOOGLE! (In case you don’t about his wife. What do you do? recognize the Wikipedia is NOT usable because it’s not necessarily written by experts. Anyone can contribute to Wikipedia. photo, that is actress Anne Hathaway from The Princess Diaries and The Devil Wears Prada. She was NOT married to Shakespeare!)

Is Wikipedia trustworthy? Don’t I look trustworthy? Taylor Hicks is mentioned in the video. He was an American Idol contestant. “Wikipedia is amazing. It is the first place I go when I'm looking for knowledge — or when I want to create some. ” — Stephen Colbert, May 24, 2007 If possible, click here to watch a video about Wikipedia. http: //www. cc. com/video clips/6 p 6 df 7/the colbert report the word wikilobbying

Now, let’s say I’m researching Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights. Consider if each of the follow ing is a trustworthy, expert, academic source.

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How about this one? The paragraph below is from the magazine Publishers Weekly. If you want to use that magazine as an expert on the publishing industry, go directly to that site. Don’t get information secondhand.

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NONE of those sites is usable! You need information from experts who have really studied your topic in depth. Think of your essays as surgery. Do you want to get informa tion from just anyone? No, you want the best experts with lots of experience.

Finding reliable academic sources • Google and sites like Wikipedia, Ask. com, or Yahoo Answers may seem like easy places to get a general overview of your topic, but they CANNOT be used as cited expert sources in your essays! • So, where DO you find usable, high quality, expert sources? This class requires peer reviewed EXPERT sources from the library databases. (If you want to use other sources for other classes, get the instructors’ permission first. )

FOLLOW THESE STEPS TO FIND ACADEMIC SOURCES: 1. Log into our Canvas course and click here. (If you can’t get into Canvas, go to www. hccfl. edu and click “Libraries” near the top left. )

2. Then click here, and the HCC library site should open in a new tab.

3. You can search the library’s resources in many ways from this page, but I recommend that you click “Databases by Subject. ” If you got here through Canvas, you should already be logged in. If not, click the Hawk Card to find out how to log in.

4. Click on whichever subject area sounds like what you want. Then click on one of the databases under that subject area. If one doesn’t provide what you want, try another or ask a librarian for help (in person or online).

If you need help, click to chat with a Florida librarian. 5. Each database looks different but will have most of the same features. Search it like you would Google except that you should click “Full Text Docu ments” or you might get just summaries, not articles. Also, click “Peer Reviewed Jour nals” for the best aca demic, expert sources. (Not clicking “peer reviewed” could include junk you don’t want, like movie reviews and enter tainment magazines. )

6. Find an article in the list that looks good to you. You may find several. You may not find any. If you don’t find any, search a different database, try searching with different words, and/or unclick “Peer Reviewed Articles. ”

7. Email the article to yourself or download it (so you’ll have a backup copy). 8. Read (or even listen) to the article to find info to use in your essay. Take notes! 9. Click “Citation Tools” to create an MLA citation for this source, which you’ll need for your work cited page if you use any of this article’s words or info in your essay.

10. On the “Citation Tools” page, be sure that you select the “MLA 8 th Edition” option. Then copy and paste the citation into your Word document’s work cited page. (You don’t need to “export. ”) Remember that this page will look different in different databases, but it will have the same basic features.

You now have an article to read and collect ideas and/or quotes from, plus an MLA style work cited page entry for the source. If you found good ideas to use, your research is done! (If you didn’t, follow these steps again. )

Where can you go for additional help? Academic Success Centers (ASC): YLRC 105, BACA 207, DLRC 312, PADM 119, SMPF 206 Smar. Thinking: Access through Canvas My Office: YADM 108 E mail: jbielecki@hccfl. edu Phone: 813 259 6470 Websites (links on Canvas): Ms. Bielecki’s Library Guide (http: //libguides. hccfl. edu/bielecki) Purdue OWL (http: //owl. english. purdue. edu)