ENGL 1010:  Research Assignment
Instructor: Carl Miller          Librarian: Sandra Williford

What is the essential question to be answered about your topic?  Worksheet

Find books

Oxford Reference Online ...a great place to start; provides definitions and background information

  ...access our library catalog for books to check out and/or read online

• May use a question mark (?) for varied word endings.  E.g.  teen?  violen?

Get organized / by Ron Fry.	Fry, Ronald W.	2005
Library Location: Main Campus Library Book Collection Call Number: LB1049 .F735 2005 Status: Available

Top ten ways to flunk out of Chattanooga State videorecording / produced by Media Services, Chattanooga State Technical Community College.		2004
Library Location: Videotape Collection (Available Over Closed Circuit System) Call Number: VT-005781 Status: Multiple item statuses

Test taking strategies and study skills for the utterly confused [electronic resource] / Laurie Rozakis.	Rozakis, Laurie.	2003
Library Location: Online NetLibrary Book Collection Call Number: LB3060.57 .R69 2003eb Status: Online Electronic Resource

• Click on the book title to get more information.  Then, if you have selected an "electronic resource,"  such as an Online NetLibrary book, look for and click on the link:

Find magazine articles

    MasterFILE Premier     InfoTrac OneFile Plus      Health & Wellness Resource Center
        ...for magazine, journal, and newspaper articles     

    Off-campus access for currently enrolled students requires a Username and Password.
        Please do not share this password information with anyone not currently enrolled at Chattanooga State.

Search Tips: 

• Use an asterisk (*) to get varied word endings.
          E.g.  teen* for teen, teens, teenage, teenager, teenagers     

• Use "and" between search words.   
          E.g.  hospice and palliative

• Use "or" for either word and enclose in parentheses.
          E.g.  (sexually transmitted diseases or aids disease)

• Sample search:
          E.g.   (prevent* or educat*) and (sexually transmitted diseases or aids disease)

 

For longer, more informative articles in the MasterFILE Premier database, "Limit your results" by:

 

Follow these directions to retrieve articles from the Chattanooga Times Free Press.

 

Find Websites

Librarians' Internet Index  "Websites you can trust"

Internet Scout Archives "contains 22,982 critical annotations of carefully selected Internet sites and mailing lists"

Google

Try Google's Advanced Search and U.S. Government Search

 

How do I cite my sources?
        An MLA citation for an article from an electronic database will usually include:        

	Author's last name, first name.  "Article Title." Name of publication. Publication information: Page numbers.
		Database name. Database supplier. Library name, Library city. Date of access <http://www.database.com>.

        MLA Citation Examples for:  Electronic Databases and Websites

 

Extras

Evaluating Web Pages (Duke University) 

Citing Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism  
    Lawton, Cousineau, and Hillard, Duke University

   

 You Quote It, You Note It
    Vaughan Memorial Library, Acadia University

 

 What is Plagiarism?
    Georgetown University

 Chattanooga State's College Reading and Writing Center
        ...remember to take advantage of their free tutors!

Questions or comments?
Call 423.697.4436 or email reference@chattanoogastate.edu
S. Williford  11/06