Transcript enc 2010x - Kentucky Community and Technical College

Writing
Building Vocabluary and Developing Library
Strategies for Writing Students
ENC and ARI 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 and ARI 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.
Introduction
Click on the link below and watch this
short YouTube video on Vocabulary.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hxsB8uZFmI
Increasing Your Vocabulary
Now let’s
learn how to
find an article
through the
MCTC library
by using
EBSCOHost.
Be sure to
read the red
text boxes.
Select EBSCOhost Web
Check Academic Search Premier and
hit continue.
This is the EBSCOhost search screen, we are
searching in the academic database for articles
Let’s search for “earthquake and Haiti”
Below are our search results, click
on the title for the first article to
access the entire article.
From the article record,
click on PDF full text
This will show you the article as it appears in the journal
From the record screen
you can use the Tools menu to the
right of the article to Cite the
source
Look for the MLA citation, highlight it
and copy and past it into a Word document
for your bibliography.
Today you have learned strategies
for building your vocabulary and
how to search, retrieve, and
document articles in EBSCOHost
Your next step is to return to the library
Information Literacy web page
and take the Writing Quiz.
Good Luck!
Quiz grades are recorded online an will be sent to your instructor from the library.