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Pathfinder
Description:
This is not a
research paper! Dr. Anderson is a professional
researcher, and she is interested in finding out
what kinds of information you can discover
about your Humanities topic.
What you will create is a list of
the books, articles, and other sources of
information that experts have written on your
topic. You will comment (in your own words) on
the "aboutness" and usefulness of the sources
that you discover as well as descriptions of how
you discovered these sources.
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Books - Use
the Library Catalog to search for books.
How to get there: (1) Library
Homepage (2) Click on Find Books
- Use the
Library Online Catalog
to find books in Pearsall Library. You may
"Quick Limit" searches to limit your search
results to Ebooks,
the Reference
Collection, etc...
- Discover books around the
world using WorldCat,
then order them through
InterLibrary Loan.
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Articles - Use article
databases to find articles that have been published in
popular magazines & scholarly (academic) journals.
How to get there: (1) Library
Homepage (2) Click on Find Articles (3) Select
databases by subject
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Your first impulse may be to find articles
that discuss the "humanities person" you
have chosen for this project. However, you
may want to use the library's research
databases to instead find information about
a movement that they inspired, a concept
that they developed and that researchers are
still studying and publishing articles
about, etc...
TIP 1:
You must let Dr. Anderson know which of your
3 articles is from a peer-reviewed journal.
What's the difference between scholarly and
non-scholarly journals and articles?
Articles: Scholarly vs. Popular
Tip 2: The library's research databases
are accessible by students from off-campus. Learn how to
authenticate via
EZ Proxy.
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Internet Source:
Google, Yahoo, Ask.com, Wikipedia,
Dogpile, etc...you know the drill. Here is where
you can find breaking news. News sources are
very brief coverage of events that have happened
very recently.
Most professors only accept
sources from reliable websites. But which
websites are reliable? Use the checklist below
to help you decide if a website is reliable or
not.
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