English Composition Subject Guide Exercise

Your name: ______

All the following questions can be answered by using the English Composition Subject Guide on the Library’s Website at

(From Library website Search and Find >Subject Guides > English Composition)

Print this exercise, answer the questions and give to your instructor for credit.

  1. What are the names of the librarians who can provide you with additional assistance with English Composition

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  1. You are looking for background informationon the topic of your documented argument.

List a resource that you could use to help you get a better understanding of an issue ______

  1. You are looking for articles for your documented argument topic,

List the database you would use to find national, local, and university newspapers:

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List two databases that you could use to get full-text scholarly articles:

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  1. Where on the library’s webpage would you search to find books?

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  1. You need statistics to support your persuasive argument.

Where on the English Composition Subject Guide would you look find this kind of information?

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  1. If you are having trouble coming up with a topic, where do you think you could look on the English CompositionSubject Guide to come up with ideas?

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  1. Sometimes when writing a paper you need additional assistance, one writing resource is the WritingCenter. You can makeindividual appointments to go over your draft with WritingCenter staff.

What is thephone number of the WritingCenter?

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  1. Many of your English Comp Instructors will assign Library Tutorials for you to do this

semester.

What tutorial would teach you about how to identify a scholarly article?

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What tutorial would teach you how to write citations?

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  1. Go to the Web Resources section of the subject guide and read the description for Google Scholar.

How is Google Scholar different than regular Google?

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  1. Under the Web Resources, you will finda list of Subject Guides for many other areas of study.Select the subject guide for your major or a subject guide in an area of interest to you.

What subject guide did you select?

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At the top of each subject guide is the name of the subject specialist that you can contact if you need help with research in that area. Write the name of the subject specialist on the subject guide that you have selected here:

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