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This brief tutorial explains how to develop keywords that you can use to search in library resources.
This tutorial explains how to read an article citation.
This tutorial explains the basics of plagiarism and how to avoid it.
Library Database Video Tutorials:
This tutorial gives a brief overview of OneSearch, the Libraries' most comprehensive searching tool.
This tutorial give an overview of advanced searching via the Libraries' OneSearch tool.
This tutorial explains how to use CQ Researcher to find original, comprehensive reports and analysis on issues in the news.
This tutorial explains how to use Statista to research and find quantitative data, statistics and related information.
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Interactive Library Tutorials:
This tutorial gives a brief overview of BrowZine.
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Annotations versus Abstracts
Many scholarly articles start with an abstract, which is the author's summary of the article to help you decide whether you should read the entire article. This abstract is not the same thing as an annotation. The annotation needs to be in your own words, to explain the relevance of the source to your particular assignment or research question.
An annotated bibliography is a list of sources (books, articles, websites, etc.) with short paragraph summarizing the importance of each source. An annotated bibliography can be a useful step before writing a research paper to help you sort citations for the sections of your paper, i.e. literature review, discussion, etc.
Annotations are about 4 to 6 sentences long (roughly 150 words), and address:
Book
Ontiveros, R. J. (2014). In the spirit of a new people: The cultural politics of the Chicano movement. New York University Press.
Ontiveros argues that the arts provide an expression of the Chicano movement that circumvents neoliberalism and connects historic struggles to current lived experience. Chicano artists have integrated environmentalism and feminism with the Chicano movement in print media, visual arts, theater, and novels since the 1970s. While focused on art, this book also provides a history of the coalition politics connecting the Chicano movement to other social justice struggles.
Journal article
Alvarez, N. & Mearns, J. (2014). The benefits of writing and performing in the spoken word poetry community. The Arts in Psychotherapy, 41(3), 263-268. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aip.2014.03.004
Prior research has shown narrative writing to help with making meaning out of trauma. This article uses grounded theory to analyze semi-structured interviews with ten spoken word poets. Because spoken word poetry is performed live, it creates personal and community connections that enhance the emotional development and resolution offered by the practice of writing. The findings are limited by the small, nonrandom sample (all the participants were from the same community).
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