Building Vocabluary and Developing Library Strategies for Writing Students ENC 090/91

Introduction ENC 090/091 are introductory courses to composition for students needing basic writing instruction and a review of grammar. Courses stress clarity, organization, development and correctness in writing. Students in ENC 090/091 will demonstrate information processing through basic computer skills consisting of appropriate use of library resources, accessing web-based materials, and submitting assignments in MLA format.

Increasing Your Vocabulary Click on the link below and watch this short YouTube video on Vocabulary.

Now let’s learn how to find an article through the MCTC library by using ProQuest.

Searching ProQuest ProQuest is an online database with access to newspaper, magazine and journal articles.

Topics covered in ProQuest range from popular to professional research.

To conduct a basic search enter search terms here.

Let’s do a search for articles on plastic bags

Limit your search to full text and scholarly journals by checking the boxes here.

Now hit search

Documenting Articles from ProQuest in MLA You found 73 articles! Your search results provide the number of articles and a link to each articles.

Let’s look more closely at Article 3.

Here is the bibliographic information for your article. It includes the Article Title, Author, Journal Title, Volume, Issue, Date and Pages Numbers for the article.

You will see the article information and a summary abstract to your articles followed by full text of the article.

Your search terms “plastic bags” will appear in red each place in the article where it is mentioned.

This is what your article will look like.

To print your article click on the print button. This will reformat your document making the article more printer friendly.

To cite the article click here and select MLA or APA based on what format your instructor requires you use.

This is what your citation will look like. You can copy and paste this into a WORD document to use later in your works cited page.

Quiz grades are recorded online an will be sent to your instructor from the library. Your next step is to return to the library ENC Information Literacy Page at and take the Post Test. Good Luck! Today you have learned strategies for building your vocabulary and how to search, retrieve, and document articles in ProQuest.