FKCC Library Resources Comp II

English Comp II

Catalog & Databases Obtain resources from other libraries Computers/wireless access Pay for print/copy Online help pages Ask-a-Librarian – online chat service Librarians and staff available to help

you

Library Catalog books e-books audio books materials from other Florida

community colleges materials placed on reserve by

your professor

Library Databases

FKCC has access to over 95 databases - all free of charge to students with full text and multimedia.

We can help you select appropriate databases to use for research.

Your professor asked you to use scholarly articles.

What are scholarly articles?

Let’s search the Library Catalog & Databases

If you need help with research paper style and citation guides

MLA formatting and writing style guide from the Online Writing Lab at Purdue http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/

MLA style from Diana Hacker Guide http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/p04_c08_s5.html

FKCC Library Research Help Bloghttp://www.fkcclibraryresearch.blogspot.com/

Be sure to acknowledge your sources and avoid plagiarism!

Still need to find resources on the Internet?

Be sure to evaluate your sources

What to look for?

Accuracy

Is the information accurate?  Can you verify the information presented in

another source? Does the page cite well-known sources or

authorities?

Authority  

Is the author identified?  Is there some reason given to assume that the

author is an authority in the subject? Does the author provide contact information? If the author is identified as a corporation or

organization is there information available about the reliability of the group?

Currency Is the information current? When was the web site created? When was it

last updated? Are the links working?

Point of View/Bias Is the primary purpose of the site advertising or

is it informational?  Does the information contradict something you

already know or have learned from another source?

Does the author have an agenda or trying to sway his/her audience?

Google search: Smoking AND Cancer AND Statistics

http://www.smokinglungs.com/

versus

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/smoking.html

FKCC Library web site:

http://library.fkcc.edu

This Power Point will be available on research blog:

http://fkcclibraryresearch.blogspot.com