Library resources & guides APA style Your research questions Primary & secondary sources Searching library e-resources for articles

Library resources & guides APA style Your research questions Primary & secondary sources Searching library e-resources for articles ENG 206 Report Presentation for Community Service Workers 9 FEBRUARY 2015 David McCarthy & Eric Maillard, Professors; Liz Dobson, Librarian 1

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LIBRARY RESOURCES Centennial Libraries homepage http://library.centennialcollege.ca/ START YOUR RESEARCH Search all Library Resources & Check your Library Account

Go LIBRARY Guides APA style Annotated bibliographies Literature Review Etc.

APA Style Rules & guidelines on how to cite your sources American Psychological Association

Format a cover page in APA student report

Sample citation in APA style with paragraph summary & statement of relevance to your assignment

A sample research question What methods are effective for teaching high school students with intellectual disabilities in an inclusive classroom environment?

HOW TO FIND GOOD QUALITY RESOURCES TO ANSWER YOUR RESEARCH QUESTIONS?

Which to use?? LIBRARY OR INTERNET?

Library databases & the Internet what s the difference? Databases (E-resources) More academic Commercial free Big precision tools for searching save time - e.g. by searching with multiple terms all at once Internet Quality varies widely Inherent commercial bias Huge You rely more on the search engine to determine results 11

Your literature review Learn the strengths and weaknesses of both Library & Internet sources and use them appropriately

That sample research question your initial exploration What methods are effective for teaching high school students with intellectual disabilities in an inclusive classroom environment?

LIBRARY DATABASE SEARCH You can lay on your search strategy directly onto the page.

Your literature review assignment asks for ARTICLES ACADEMIC JOURNAL ARTICLES

Academic Peer reviewed articles A committee of scholars must approve quality before the editor publishes Also called refereed or scholarly All are fully documented ideas and quotations from others are cited, and a bibliography is provided Most peer reviewed articles are primary sources (writeups of original research) Most databases allow you easily to limit to academic peer reviewed if you want 19

Library database Documentation is a sign of scholarliness Example of a scholarly journal article Note: in-text citations

Example of documentation in a scholarly journal article Note: References at end of article which provide full publication info for citations made in the essay above

.. PRIMARY & SECONDARY SOURCES

Primary source In the context of academic research or writing: designating an original document, source, or text rather than one of criticism, discussion, or summary. Examples? -Oxford English Dictionary Online

Primary ( original ) sources Some examples: Scholarly (peer reviewed) journal articles that are write-ups of original research done (e.g. surveys, experiments, analysis of newspaper articles, coding of observed behaviour) Statistics or other data collected using accepted research methods (e.g. surveys, questionnaires, etc.) Other original documents or accounts: interviews with individuals who have direct first-hand experiences or eye witness status, diaries, letters, photographs, maps, some newspaper articles, video & film, published first-hand accounts or stories

Secondary ( not original ) sources Some examples: Works of criticism Literature reviews - gathering together statistical data provided by other primary researchers Summaries of others work Opinion pieces Discussion lacking research support

Author describes a research study written by others Is this this newspaper article is a primary or secondary source?

Authors write up results of a research study that they did themselves (article in a scholarly journal) Is this article a primary or a secondary source?

With your search strategy in hand you can go directly into the Library s E-Resources & E-Books / Journals (Full Text) (databases)

Centennial Libraries E-Resources page Approximately 100 library databases Listings by Subject, Type, Title

Go E-Resources by Subject library web page Social Sciences group

LIBRARY E-RESOURCES ( DATABASES ) Education group

ERIC education database search Limit to full text 281 records found

ERIC education database search Limit to full text & Peer Reviewed 140 records found

More Limits Library database tools FIELDS

Search using FIELD LIMITS fewer records and more relevancy Title Field limit Subject Field limit Abstract Field limit Subject Field limit

LIBRARY database searching More Limits Publication date Document Type Publication Type Image content, etc

Subject field terms (Thesaurus) A way to get more check for preferred terminology used in the database

Thesaurus subject field terms ERIC database uses Inclusion as a subject heading - if you include this term in your searches increases the number and quality of your results:

Thesaurus subject field terms More related terms on display

Using one new Subject Term in the thesaurus Results list produces about 25% more records as before

More ways to get more: Remove some limits Use more related terms (your own terms or subject heading terms) click on Choose Databases to search more than one database at a time - with EBSCO, ProQuest, and Gale vendor databases

Add more databases to your search

Searching multiple databases at one time increases the number of results

Page Options Choose Detailed option..

to add abstract to the results list

More database tools You can print, save, email the document and get APA citation format help

Sample email option with APA citation format

Help screens available in databases

askon Chat with library staff on your desktop or laptop

Direct E-Resources ( databases )searching PRACTICE