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EDU 150: Spring 2009 Library Sessions |
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Your assignment is to find four sources to support a paper on your topic.
1. An article from the ERIC database.
- ERIC is an acryonym for the Educational Resources Information Center, which is a project of the U.S. Dept. of Education. The database was founded in 1966. It indexes three basic types of sources:
- Articles from periodicals (magazines and journals) in the field of Education
- Descriptions of books and book chapters of interest to students of Education
- Documents collected by the ERIC project coordinators from many sources, including school district publications, unpublished masters thesis projects, the text of presentations given by students or faculty at conferences, and so on. Many of these documents are valuable for various purposes, but they have not been edited or peer-reviewed as rigorously as articles from periodicals or some book chapters.
- It is possible to limit your ERIC search to find only research articles from journals (periodicals).
Click here to connect to the library's subscription to ERIC (or from the library's home page, click EBSCOhost then scroll down to ERIC)
2. Information from an Internet site.
- Just as you will prefer to find information from an edited or peer-reveiwed source for your ERIC selection, you will want to find credible information on the Web. Criteria for evaluation of Web information: CHART
- Google is an excellent research tool, but it will take you to all sorts of information from many sources. Some sources are better than others for academic research!
- A recommendation for finding high quality educational Web resources is to start your search with Google's special search engine for scholars: Google Scholar = http://scholar.google.com
3. Find a book.
- Wildcat, Summit and Worldcat all use the Lbrary of Congress subject headings to tag books on the same subject. You may start your search as a 'keyword' search, but as you find books on target in the results list, note the 'official' subject headings the catalogers applied to these books. You may wish to change your search to use these terms in the subject field to see what else has been cataloged with similar tags.
- Remember to request books from Summit (or order them from Worldcat using the ILL link if a book you want is not in Summit or Wildcat). There is no additional charge to you to order books via these catalogs.
4. Information drawn from your textbook.
CITE YOUR SOURCES
Use APA style. If you have a copy of the EasyWriter Handbook (required for many IQS classes) there is a section that explains and outlines APA style. The pertinent sections of this book are ONLINE as well. Look under DOCUMENTING SOURCES then APA then APA Style: List of References.
http://bedfordstmartins.com/easywriter
As shown on that site, the basic format for a book is as follows (for variations and more detail, see the EasyWriter book or go its site):
Walsh, M. E., & Murphy, J. A. (2003). Children, health, and learning: A guide to the issues.
Westport,CT: Praeger.
The basic format for an article from an online journal follows. For print journals, stop after the period following the page numbers.
Stegelin, D. A. (2005). Making the case for play policy: Research-based reasons to support
play-based environments. Young Children, 60, 76-85. Retrieved October 7, 2008,from ERIC database (EJ751332).
We will certainly not cover everything you might need to know in this workshop. When you are doing your research, please be sure to ask for help at the library reference desk or contact me directly for assistance at jcaspers@linfield.edu or by phone at x2262 on campus, or just drop by my office.
Inquiry is at the heart of your scholarly endeavors, so please, ASK QUESTIONS!
Librarian:
Jean Caspers
jcaspers@linfield.edu
503-883-2262 (just 2262 on campus)