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Name_________________________
Assignment #6
What is your topic?
Print Indexes
1. Using Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature look up the term censorship.
a. Index used? Title, volume
b. On what page did you find the citation?
c. Were there any cross references?
d. Select one citation and write it in MLA citation style.
e. Does SSU own the journal?
2. Using Essay and General Literature Index look up the term censorship.
a. Volume used?
b. On what page number did you find the citation?
c. Were there any cross-references?
d. Select one citation and write it in MLA citation style.
Boolean Operators
3. When using Boolean operators,
a. Which will result in the largest number of records AND, OR, NOT?
b. Which will result in the smallest number of records AND, OR, NOT?
4. Using Boolean operators, give an example of a search string for your topic. For example, if the topic were the depiction of death in Mexican American poetry, the search might be (Mexican American or Chicano) and death and poetry.
5. What is the difference between a scholarly journal and a popular journal?
6. When would it be more appropriate to use a popular journal than a scholarly journal?
Electronic Sources
7. Using Expanded Academic Index,
1) do a subject search for censorship.a. What search string did you use?
b. What are the results?
2) do a key word search for censorship.a. What search string did you use?
b. What are the results?
c. What happens if you limit the list to refereed journals?
d. How would you narrow this list down further?
e. Email an article to karen.brodsky@sonoma.edu
8. When would you choose to use a print index instead of an electronic database?
9. Using one general print index and one general database, find at least two articles useful to your topic. Be sure to use IBARO to order any article that is not owned by the library.
1) a. Index used? Title, volume
b. On what page did you find the citation?
c. What terms did you use?
d. Select one citation and write it in MLA citation style.
2) a. Name of database:
b. Search string used:
c. Results:
d. Cite the article using MLA citation style.
* you may want to start writing abstracts for any item you wish to include in your final project.