TODAY’S GOALS Review MLA works cited page citations Introduce strategies for using FIU library databases Practice using FIU library databases

WORKS CITED PAGE Newspapers: Author Lastname, Firstname. "Title of Article." Title of Periodical Day Month Year: pages. Medium of publication. Ex: Poniewozik, James. "TV Makes a Too-Close Call." Time 20 Nov. 2000: Print. Periodicals Author Lastname, Firstname. "Title of Article." Title of Periodical Volume.Issue (Year):pages. Database (if applicable). Medium of publication. Date of access (if accessed online) Ex: Duvall, John N. "The (Super)Marketplace of Images: Television as Unmediated Mediation in DeLillo's White Noise." Arizona Quarterly 50.3 (1994): JSTOR. Web. 5 Apr Most of the peer reviewed articles from the library databases will fall into this format

WORKS CITED PAGE Electronic Sources Author Lastname, Firstname. “Title of Article” (if applicable). Title of Website. Version numbers or revisions. Publisher or Company, Date of Publication. Web. Date of access. Ex: Bernstein, Mark. "10 Tips on Writing the Living Web." A List Apart: For People Who Make Websites. A List Apart Mag., 16 Aug Web. 4 May Remember to use n.p. if no publisher name is available and n.d. if no publishing date is given. URLs are no longer required Websites can be some of the most difficult to cite due to formatting concerns and lack of relevant information No more than 1 website!

LIBRARY DATABASES AdvantagesDisadvantages Easiest way to find/access peer reviewed sources Access to thousands of expensive academic journals for free The most credible databases/sources you will find anywhere The sheer number of sources can be overwhelming Many sources will have pedantic language that is hard to read Different databases will have different criteria and search protocols that will produce varied results and take individual time to learn to use

RECOMMENDED LIBRARY DATABASES Easy to use Academic Search Complete OmniFile Full Text Mega Academic OneFile LexisNexis: Academic ProQuest Specific Use “Browse by Subject” in the left pane of the Research Sources page Allows you to access journals by the discipline/major Comprehensive (but harder to use) JSTOR Project MUSE

RESEARCH STRATEGIES Eliminate function words or words that will appear in too many contexts, such as “the” or “a” or “first” When you want to find an exact phrase, enter it in quotation marks (Note: this will severely limit search results) Enter search terms in their order of importance rather than the order they will appear in the sentence (This prioritizes the first words for certain search engines) Use Boolean operators: (special words that affect search conditions. Do not use these except for their listed function) “AND”: only sources containing all the words it separates “OR”: sources containing any of the words it separates “NOT”: narrow search results to not contain the word following it

RESEARCH STRATEGIES Start your working bibliography! It is most useful for this type of research Read the abstracts of several sources before finding one to analyze in depth Look at the data in a source as separate from its main argument; you can use the data of a source without agreeing with its argument Read slowly. Understand that many of these sources are complex and will take more than one read-through to comprehend

GROUP ACTIVITY: FINDING SOURCES In your topic groups For each student, find one peer reviewed source from the library database based on the topic of your group. For each source, answer the following: 1.What is the title and who is the author of the source? 2.What is the main argument or thesis of the source? (The abstract may be helpful here) 3.What database did you find the source in? 4.How would you classify this source: would it be considered primary or secondary? Objective or subjective? Note: there should be one source for each student in the group, but you should work together to find sources that are useful to your topic

HOMEWORK Blog Entry5: Focus: Source1 Evaluation Select a peer reviewed source from a library database on your synthesis essay topic (you may use the source found in class if you choose) Read and analyze the source. Then, sum up the argument it makes in the journal entry as well as your reaction to reading the source. Play the Believing and Doubting Game (or with and against the grain reading) to find the strongest and weakest elements of the source. Finally, reflect on how the source has changed your understanding of the research topic and what information could be useful to you in writing your synthesis essay You do not need to introduce the issue or explain your viewpoint or past experiences here, simply focus on the source itself