information competency literacy research guides

Instructor: Mr. C. Charter
English 109

PURPOSE: This assignment has been designed to help you learn basic skills for writing a research paper: choosing and narrowing a topic, using the library and online resources, and then presenting and citing material in the paper.

The Writing Assignment: This assignment requires you to both persuade your audience to do something AND teach them how to do what you want them to do. For example, you may want to convince your audience to begin surfing, doing yoga, or becoming a vegetarian. If so, then Part I of your research paper will contain the cogent information about why your readers should listen to you and begin this specific activity. Part II of your paper is the How To section; here you are to provide the necessary information for your readers to begin this activity.
Find articles in these databases and complete this worksheet:

General Onefile

On Library homepage www.cuyamaca.edu/library

KEYWORD search.
Check the box Full-text.
Do SUBJECT SEARCH
(top bar)

Academic Onefile

On Library homepage www.cuyamaca.edu/library
KEYWORD search
Check the box Full-text. Do SUBJECT SEARCH
(top bar)

Health and Wellness At the library homepage, this database is listed under "Article and Database A-Z". KEYWORD search.
Check the box Full-text. Do SUBJECT SEARCH
(top bar)

Academic Search Premier On Library homepage www.cuyamaca.edu/library Type in your keywords,
Check the box Full-text. Do SUBJECT SEARCH
(top bar)

STEP 2: Choose articles
RESEARCH TIP: type in your subject phrase and narrow topic to "health aspects" or "social aspects" or "France-description and travel".

Academic Search Premier

Academic Onefile

General Onefile

library databases

leads to
citation

Do
Subject search
or
Keyword search

Citation

Edelen, Jeri.
"Children and nutrition"
Child Development
March 2, 2012, p.235.

leads to
library sources

Check full-text

Library source full-text.

"The formation of the ideas of children constitutes a study equally interesting from a literary and a scientific point of view..."

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