cass instruction

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RESEARCH MADE EASY


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Current events

Politics

Environmentalinjustice

Health ormedicine

Racial &Ethnic

Discrimination

Art

Music

Drugs, Alcohol& Teens

Business ofFashion

Government


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Describe your topic in one or twosentences

Define the focus of the topic & theparticular aspects to be covered

Example:

My topic is: The Effects ofUnemployment on Teens inMichigan


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Unemployment lack of jobs -joblessness

Teens youth-adolescents

Effects attitudes lack ofexperience

The Effects of Unemployment on Teens inMichigan

Identify the 2 or 3 basic concepts(keywords) in your topicAlso identify synonymsUSE YOUR WORKSHEETS


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Use the word AND to connect aword from each concept (keyword).

Example:

Unemployment AND teens ANDMichigan


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With Advanced Search, use OR to connectthe alternatives w/in each concept.

This will find articles that either have theword unemployment OR the wordjobless OR the phrase in the citationand abstract.

Example:

Unemployment OR joblessness ANDteens OR adolescents AND Michigan


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BASIC RESOURCESTO USE


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Articles in general and subjectencyclopedias are written by experts,give in-depth information, and

usually contain extensivebibliographies to lead you toadditional sources.

Subject & Basic

Encyclopedia
http://elibrary.wayne.edu/search/http://elibrary.wayne.edu/search/http://elibrary.wayne.edu/search/


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Editorials

Current attitudes

Newspapers reflect what people ofa period were reading and perhapsbelieving

NEWSPAPERS
http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTM4M2UmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=14288http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTM4M2UmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=14288


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MA GAZINE SC HO LAR LY JO UR NA L


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Journal

Articles

Refereed materials are publicationsreviewed by "expert readers" orreferees prior to the publication of thematerial. Refereed materials are also

referred to as Peer ReviewedNon-refereed materials such as TradeJournals or Magazines use lessrigorous standards of screening prior

to publication


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Any informational materialproduced by a government

agency (published atgovernment expense, or asrequired by law)

Federal

State

Local

Government

Documents

KNOW YOUR GOVERNMENTAGENCIES


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A source for sample topic:


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Books

-depth subject coverageBibliographies

Suggested readingsore available full-text on linean order online from a library for pickup at local libr


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Access from home

Access from school

Access from your local library

http://www.mel.org
http://www.mel.org/SPT--BrowseResourcesNewMeL.phphttp://www.mel.org/SPT--BrowseResourcesNewMeL.php


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"Some luck lies in not getting what youthought you wanted but getting what you

have, which, once you have got it, you may

be smart enough to see is what you would

have wanted had you known." Garrison Keillor
http://www.answers.com/topic/garrison-keillor


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Relevance: does the information pertain toyour research question?

Currency: how recently was theinformation published? How recently has it

been updated? Have there been newdevelopments on the topic?

Authorship: who wrote it? What are theircredentials? Do they cite their sources? Hasthe information been peer reviewed? (Peer

reviewed means that a groupknowledgeable in the subject has examinedthe article and determined it accurate.)

Objective: What is the authors objective?Persuade? Explain? Manipulate?


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Good searching takespatience. It can take a lotof trial and error to get

good results.


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Effective SearchingBased on a presentation developed byLibrarians

Rhonda J. McGinnis & Veronica Bielat

Locating ResourcesDuryea Callaway