Transcript Freshmen English MLA & Information Literacy
Junior Orientation
Eat?
JSerra Library Webpages
Main Page: http://www.jserra.org/library OPAC: Library Catalog Sample MLA Paper: Link
College Libraries
• • • • • • • • Transitioning to College UCLA Notre Dame UC Davis CSUN USC What HS Students Should Know How College is Different from HS
Writing
• UCI Writing Program & GE Reqs • Context/Understand • Background vocabulary • Experts? Be Critical!!!
Librarians
• • • • HELP Library Navigation Research Citation help General
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Narrow Topic
Research
Facts say….
Experts say….
I think…..
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Evaluate Success 4. Rough Draft 5. Final Draft Research (Truth) 2.
Find Sources 3.
Evaluate & Record Books Articles Websites Videos
1st Source of Information
OLD vs. NEW
Book Addresses
aka, Call Numbers
Text box
Search Options
Subject Headings
Title Page
Insides of Books
Index
Old
2
nd
Source of Info vs. New
Username: access Password: database1314
Tutorials – Research Process
• Link to Rutgers University tutorials: video
3 rd Source of Info FILTER BUBBLES Advanced Search Scholar
Google Search Strategies
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Keywords
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quotes
3.
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(minus sign) 4.
Site operators
(.edu, .org, .gov) 5.
truncation
: *, #, $ (gives you versions of a word example:
racis$: racist, racism….
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Boolean
: and, or, not 7. more: See Link
Site limiter
Websites & Credibility
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Currency Authority Biased (or objective) Accuracy Coverage Easy Who Is Martin Luther King.org
WHO.int
Personal Webpages: 1 and 2
Plagiarism
Intellectual Freedom
: Read, seek information, speak freely
Intellectual Property Automatic Immediate
Plagiarism Tutorials
• Penn State – online tutorials
Copyright & Fair Use • • • • • • • The guidelines also limit the amount of copyrighted multimedia material that can be included in educational projects to
A film/DVD: Up to three minutes or 10 percent, whichever is less.
up to 10 percent or 1,000 words, whichever is less, of a single copyrighted work of text. an entire poem of less than 250 words or up to 250 words of a longer poem but no more than three poems by one poet or five poems by different poets from a single anthology.
A song: Up to 30 seconds or 10 percent of the song’s length , whichever is less.
up to five photographs or illustrations by one person and no more than 15 images or 10 percent, whichever is less, of the photographs or illustrations from a single published work. up to 2,500 fields or cell entries or 10 percent, whichever is less, from a numerical database or data table.
MLA & Citation
An MLA 7 th edition citation style paper: MLA paper New Citation Software:
NoodleTools
– Go to the Jserra Library’s webpage called Research Databases & NoodleTools to create your account
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Sources
Slide 5: LibraryNet (OPAC), Wikipedia (old card catalog) Slide 6: Wikimedia Commons, Robey Memorial Library (OPAC stations) Slide 7: EMS Media Center (F), Avan Halem – Fiverr (NF) Slide 10: Town of Davie, FL, Chromosome 18 Registry Slide 11: AppAdvice.com, Marionberry Style Slide 12: Vans.com, Sees.com
Slide 16: Nickelodeon.com, eClickPerformance.com
Slide 18: National Institute of Technology Slide 19: Amazon.com
Slide 20: The New Yorker (Vol. 69 (LXIX) no. 20), page 61, 5 July 1993.
Slide 23: Carmel Clay Schools Slide 24: Flickr.com
Slide 24: Batgirl, Jessica Olin; Reference Desk, Cunningham Memorial Library, Indiana State University
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Review Handouts
3 handouts from class:
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MLA Review Sheet Avoiding Accidental Plagiarism Parenthetical Citations --------------------------------------------------------------- Print out the Sample MLA 7 th edition paper
Primary/Secondary/Tertiary Sources
Former President Ronald Reagan’s “Evil Empire Speech” (1983) vs.
A biography about President Reagan vs.
An almanac
Banned Books
• ALA’s list of Challenged and/or Banned Books
Censorship
FOIA
http://www.foia.gov/about.html
Freedom of Speech – 1 st Amendment Rights
Student Rights – Rights of Schools http://www.usconstitution.net/consttop_stud.html
Sample citations
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Book citation
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Magazine citation
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Website citation
Book – One Author – Title Page
Book – One Author
Davidson, Arthur .
The Incredible State of Absolute Nothingness
. New York : StarCatcher, Inc ., 2009.
Print.
Author.
Title in Italics.
City: Publisher, Year. Print.
Parenthetical Citation: (Davidson #).
Magazine Citation (print)
Kiviat, Barbara . “How to Create a Job.”
Time Magazine .
29 Mar. 2010 : 19-27.
Print.
Parenthetical citation
: (Kiviat #).
How to Cite Websites 1. Author. (ex.: Smith, John A.) 2. “Title of Webpage.” (in quotes) 3. Title of Subpage under Overall website (ex.: Politics) 4. Sponsoring organization, (ex.: CNN,) 5. Date on webpage (if any). If no date, use
n.d.
5. Format (Web.) 6. Date you looked at it (ex.: 14 Sept. 2011).
URLs? (don’t need them, unless webpage is REALLY HARD to find –or- Instructor insists upon them
Websites – with Author on Page
CNN Article: Colbert
Webpage – with Author
Silverleib, Alan. “Colbert storms Capitol Hill for migrant workers.”
Politics.
2010 . Web. 25 Sept. 2010.
CNN, 24 Sept. Author. “Title of Webpage.”
Name of Subpage on Overall Website.
Sponsoring Organization of Site, date on webpage. viewed webpage.
Web. Date you
If No Date on Webpage
Silverleib, Alan. “Colbert storms Capitol Hill for migrant workers.”
Politics.
Sept. 2010.
CNN, n.d.
Web. 25
Parenthetical Citations
• • • According to one source, “here is my quote in my paper” ( Dixon 42 ).
Burnett said, “and we quote Burnett” ( 13 ).
CNN reported……………. (author or “Title of webpage”).
Works Cited Author. Or… “Title of webpage.”
CNN.com.
etc. …… Burnett , Mark. ……………………………..
Dixon , Byron. ………………….