LECTURE FOR NOTE TAKING UNIT TEST

The next unit covers Chapter 11 Principles of Research. It will be different from other units in that we will actually go to the library to learn how to use the databases. The unit consists of 5 homework assignments and 1 assignment that will count as part of your test grade.

The total homework points for this unit is 230 points and should help everyone improve his daily average. Let’s look each of these assignments:

Assignment #1 is a scavenger hunt through the library, library databases and some tutorials to give you an overview of the library before you begin the other assignments. (Building Basic Background!) Each of the items on the scavenger hunt will be used in other assignments. Some of the items necessitate your going to the library; however, many can be done on a computer outside the library. You will down load this assignment and write or type on your downloaded sheet.

Assignment # 2 deals with the process of research and practices using databases to find books, periodical articles, newspaper articles and reliable Internet sources about a topic you need to research. By the way, the term periodical is used for magazines or journals. For Assignment #2 you will use the textbook and record your answers in the text.

Assignment #3 deals with using subject specific databases and again is a downloaded worksheet.

Assignment #4 requires you to use a floor plan of the library to familiarize yourself with the location of things in Walker Library.

Assignment #5 takes you back to textbook pages and deals with some specific reference books that you will find useful in courses you will take.

In addition you will go the micro text area of the library and find the New York Times for the day (and year) you were born. You will fill in a “Birthday Sheet” with information you find in the paper. The Birthday Sheet will count as 10 points on your test.

Instead of coming to the classroom, we will meet class in the library. You should check in with your instructor each class period at the back of the reference section in the glassed in room 114d.

You may work ahead on the assignments. When you have completed all 5 assignments and your instructor has graded them, you will be excused from class until the day the class reviews for the test. So that theoretically you could finish in two or three days and not come to the library while others are working to complete the assignments. Again YOU MAY MISS CLASS ONLY IF ALL ASSIGNMENTS ARE COMPLETE AND GRADED.

If you have not already downloaded the library packet, you will need to do so before next class meeting.