LIBRARY PROJECT

I. MICROFILM:

1) Look up the issue of The New York Times newspaper on microfilm that corresponds with your date of birth.

2) Print only the front page ($.10).

II. MICROFILM-2: (typed)

1) Read one of the articles found on the above page of the New York Times.

2) Respond to the article—emotionally, intellectually, creatively—in a one-page document.

III. OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY (OED): (typed)

1) Look up each of the 5 words given to you by the instructor.

2) Record its part of speech.

3) Write a simple definition for it. (the most frequently employed definition, the common understanding)

4) Use it in an original sentence. (one that demonstrates your understanding of the meaning, more than a rewording of the definition) (“Because of his hearing impairment, Stanley does not listen to much music.”)

IV. BOOKS: (typed)

1) Look up two books in each of the following five sections (according to theLibrary of Congress classification system):

  • Literature/Poetry: your author
  • Science: bioethics, cloning, computer science, science + technology
  • History/Government: American Revolution, Vietnam War, cold war, George Bush
  • Nursing: pediatric nursing, geriatric nursing, nursing + drugs
  • Health/Medicine: nutrition, AIDS, Alzheimer’s disease

** You may use 2 books on the same sub-topic: 2 “nutrition” books in the Health section (for example).

2) Record the following information:

  • the call number,
  • author(s),
  • full title
  • publisher,
  • publisher’s location (city)
  • copyright date (latest),
  • and the first sentence of Chapter 1 (so you actually have to locate, touch, and open the book) (but you can truncate longer sentences with ellipses [. . . .]).

V. PERIODICALS: (typed)

1) Read an article in a hardcopy periodical that is related to your major (major interest).

2) Type a one-page outline of that article.

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VI. EncyclopædiaBritannica:

1) Research your GROUP PROJECT on the online version of this encyclopedia.

2) Print the relevant information only—that data germane to your group sub-topic.

VII. WEB SITES:

1) Research 5 Web sites for the GROUP PROJECT.

2) These sites must be official, professional, and authoritative. (*No wikipedia, answers, about.coms)

3) Print the relevant information only—that data germane to your group sub-topic.

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VIII. DYNIX:

1) Use the library’s online card catalogue system to look up 5 books related to your Opposing Viewpoints topic.

2) Record the publishing information. (typed—or print the screen)

IX. OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS: (this is the name of a Gale Group database)

1) Research articles on subject given to you by the instructor.

2) Select 5 of the most recent articles.

3) The articles must concern a related topic within your subject (for ex: in “human rights” see “abortion”) (*all five will argue the same point of view—5 arguing for abortion).

4) Print only the file, folder, “shopping cart” (not the articles!!).

X-IV. OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS OUTLINES:

1) Read each of the articles gathered from the Opposing Viewpoints database.

2) Type a one-page outline of each article. (5 points each)

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XV. EBSCO: (select “Academic Search Elite” and then “Continue”)

1) Look up articles about your author on this database.

2) Save the 5 best related articles in a file (related, i.e., by particular work, like reviews of Stephen King’s It).

3) Print the file, folder, “shopping cart” (not the articles!!).

XVI. WILSON WEB: (select “OmniFile Full Text,” not “Biographies”)

1) Look up articles about your author on this database.

2) Save the 5 best related articles in a file (related, i.e., by particular work, like Stephen King’s The Stand).

3) Print the file (not the articles!!).

XVII. LITERATURE ON-LINE REFERENCE EDITION (LION):

1) Look up articles about your author on LION.

2) Save the 5 best related articles in a file.

3) Print the file.

XVIII. LITERATURERESOURCECENTER (LRC) under InfoTrac: (under “Galegroup’s Infotrac”)

1) Look up your author under “Literary Criticism, Articles, and Work Reviews” (not “Biographies”).

2) Save 5 related articles.

3) Print the file.

XIX. CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS:

1) Locate database through the “Galegroup’s InfoTrac” icon on the library’s list of databases.

2) Look up your author, save, and print out his/her biography, bibliography, and sidelights (*multiple pages).

XX. “SIDELIGHTS” REPORT: (typed)

1) Read the “Sidelights” section of Contemporary Authors (Part IX).

2) Write a one-page document in which you paraphrase and summarize some particular aspect regarding the author’s writing (for example, how the works of Xiang Fu embody the PuPu movement).

3) Put as much of it into your own words, but use quotation marks around direct quotes when necessary.

* For the Literature Research Center, EBSCO, Wilson Web, and LION databases, do not employ citations that are simply the novel/work itself; the work or the author should be the subject of the article/book. In other words, do not use a citation that lists Stephen King’s It; rather, the citation should be a review of the author or the work.

* For the LiteratureResearchCenter, EBSCO, Wilson Web, and LION databases, do not use the same articles in each; there should be no overlap of citations.

* For the Literature Research Center, EBSCO, Wilson Web, and LION databases, do not use articles that concern reviews of movies, plays, or television shows; literature only.

______SETUP______

* LABEL and STAPLE each section.

* Organize the material as numbered above (put the items in the same order as above).

* Securethe entire project within a folder/binder.

* The first page will be a typedtitle page. Place the proper “essay” information in the upper right-hand corner (your name, my name, course & section #, due date, assignment), and place your author’s name in the title position (centered on the page).

  • 5points per section (100 available points)
  • Project counts as a test grade
  • Due date:

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OUTLINING

  • Create a SKELETAL view of the source.
  • list the author’s (authors’) main points
  • list those points in the order they appear in the source
  • as if you were writing subheadings for it
  • “zoom out”
  • List the CLAIMS and GROUNDS.
  • What points or claims does the author make?
  • How does s/he support those claims?
  • What type of evidence, what means of support?
  • Remain OBJECTIVE.
  • this is not a matter of agreeing or disagreeing
  • remain impartial, neutral, unbiased, detached
  • Put it in YOUR OWN WORDS as much as possible.
  • do not simply change a few words
  • completely process the claims and grounds and reword them
  • “analyze” and “synthesize” the information
  • Use the author’s EXACT WORDS whenever a point is succinctly and aptly phrased.
  • place the quote within quotation marks “ ”

LIBRARY of CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM

A – General Works: Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, and other reference works

B – Philosophy, Psychology, Parapsychology, Religion

C – Auxiliary Sciences of History

D – History: General and Outside the Americas

E – History: United States (Chronological)

F – History: United States (by State), Canada, Mexico, Latin

America, South America

G – Geography, Anthropology, Folklore, Recreation, Sports

H – Social Sciences

J – Political Science, Government

K – Law

M – Music

N – Fine Arts, Architecture

P – Language and Literature

Q – Science: such as Mathematics, Astronomy, Physics, Chemistry,

Botany, Zoology, Human Anatomy

R – Medical Sciences: Dentistry, Nursing, Pediatrics, Psychiatry

S – Agriculture, Horticulture

T – Technology: such as Engineering, Aeronautics, Home Economics,

Astronautics, Photography

U – Military Science

V – Naval Science

Z – Bibliography, Library Science, Information Resources

AUTHORS used in the past: (choose one of these or choose one not on the list)

  • Tom Clancy
  • Dan Brown
  • JRR Tolkien
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne (no Contemporary Authors)
  • JD Salinger
  • Ernest Hemingway
  • John Steinbeck
  • Emily Dickenson (no Contemporary Authors)
  • Charles Dickens (LRC)
  • William Shakespeare (no Contemporary Authors)
  • Flannery O’Connor
  • JK Rowling
  • Mary Higgins Clark (limited articles)
  • Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens)
  • Gary Paulson
  • Stephen King
  • Geoffrey Chaucer
  • VC Andrews
  • Ken Kesey
  • Robert L. Heinlein
  • John Grisham
  • Jonathan Swift
  • Nicholas Sparks (no LION)
  • Roald Dahl
  • Mario Puzu
  • RL Stein (limited)
  • Maya Angelou
  • Erma Bombeck (no LION, LRC)
  • Hunter S. Thompson
  • Anne Rice
  • Pearl S. Buck
  • William S. Burroughs
  • Ray Bradbury
  • Andrew M. Greeley

VOCABULARY

howdah

susurrant

oxymoron

cathode

Bar Mitzvah

cantor

nirvana (not musicians)

sentinel

chinking

marmot

pathology

brazier

ominous

unpalatable

chasuble

retrospect

embroidering

philandering

nostalgia

aerial

chauvinist

victimization

disability

deformity

anomalies

mutilated

maladjusted

ministrations

millennia

injunction

erstwhile

largesse

condemnation

narcissism

mitigates

impairment

Leukemia

Multiple Sclerosis

disenfranchised

sexism

hysteria

antipathy

malady

paraplegia

anorexia nervosa

Shanghai (v)

benign

insular

semantic

posturing

incursions

ensconced

forays

formaldehyde

phenol

bromides

vacuity

putrid

edifice

remedial

despondent

leavening

criterion

oncologist

abominable

extol

internist

facilitated

barbiturates

chemotherapy

quietus

euthanasia

ensuing

arbitrary

encode

watershed

recidivist

vitriolic

proselytize

excoriate

obeisance

pram

naturalist

cacophony

ethos

fission

recession

ethereal

androgynous

patriarchal

suffragist

visceral

supposition

pendant

nonchalance

talon

tremulous

inexplicable

enchantment

ignobly

onus

pariah

dysfunctional

zenith

innuendo

dogma

unsullied

automaton

applicable

evinced

esoteric

seditious

defamatory

anomaly

assimilate

malign

proliferate

gilded

construe

apparition

ethics

civility

omnipresent

supercede

obfuscate

OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS

Abortion

Administration of Criminal Justice

Adoption

Affirmative Action

AIDS (Disease)

Alcoholism

Animal Experimentation

Animal Rights

Assisted Suicide

Athletes

Bioethics

Biological Weapons

Birth Control

Capital Punishment

Censorship

Chemical Weapons

Child Abuse

Church and State

Civil Rights

Cloning

Crime

Crime Victims

Death

Divorce

Domestic Violence

Drinking (Alcoholic Beverages)

Driving While Intoxicated

Drug Abuse

Drug Traffic

Drugs And Athletes

Eating Disorders

Education

Elderly

Emigration and Immigration

Employment

Endangered Species

Environmental Policy

Environmentalism

Ethnic Relations

Euthanasia

Family

Family Relations

Feminism

Gambling

Gangs

Genetic Engineering

Genocide

Global Warming

Gun Control

Hate Crimes

Health Insurance

Health Care Reform

Homelessness

Homosexuality

Human Rights

Illegal Immigrants

Internet

Iraq

Islamic Fundamentalism

Juvenile Alcoholism

Juvenile Drug Abuse

Juvenile Offenders

Marijuana

Marine Resources Conservation

Media Violence

Medical Care

Medical Ethics

Mental Disorders

Mental Health

Middle East

Narcotics Control

Narcotics Legalization

National Security

Nuclear Weapons

Nutrition

Oceans

Political Corruption

Pollution

Population Growth

Pornography

Poverty

Prisons

Public Assistance

Race Relations

Racism

Rape

Religion

Renewable Energy

Right of Privacy

School Violence

Sex Education

Sexual Behavior

Smoking

Social Security

Stem Cells

Suicide

Teenage Pregnancy

Teenage Sexual Behavior

Terrorism

United States Foreign Relations

Violence

War Crimes

Water Pollution

Welfare Reform

Women

Women's Rights

Working Women

Youth