RESEARCH TOPICS & TERMS References: 1. Langan, J. (2008). Exploring writing: paragraphs and essays. New York, NY: McGraw Hill Companies, Inc. Publication.

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RESEARCH TOPICS & TERMS References: 1. Langan, J. (2008). Exploring writing: paragraphs and essays. New York, NY: McGraw Hill Companies, Inc. Publication Manual of the American Psychological 2. Oshima, A. & Hogue, A. (2006). Writing Academic English. White Plains, NY: Pearson Education, Inc 3. Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. (2010). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Knowledge is Empowerment Perhaps you need to know the importance of the research topic: 1.A research topic is the topic sentence of the paragraph 2.A topic sentence = states the main idea of the paragraph (contains a subject & a verb) + controlling idea (that announces the specific area to be discussed) 3.The main idea or thesis statement appears in the introductory paragraph

Knowledge is Empowerment Defining the essay and paragraph Essay definition according to Langan, J. (2008, p.243): An essay, it is a paper of several paragraphs, The main idea is called the thesis statement or thesis sentence The thesis statement appears in the introductory paragraph. The thesis statement is developed in the supporting paragraphs, (see next slides).

m Paragraph definition according to Oshima, A. & Hogue, A. (2006, p.2): A paragraph is a group of related sentences that discuss one main idea. It can be from 1 to 10 sentences, however, the paragraph should be long enough to develop the main idea clearly. The paragraph is mark by indenting the first word 5 spaces from the left margin

m According to Oshima, A. & Hogue, A. (2006, p.3) a paragraph contains : A topic sentence states the main idea of the paragraph (contains a subject & a verb) + controlling idea (announces the specific area to be discussed) A supporting sentence supports the topic sentence by developing the main idea. The concluding sentence ends the paragraph by rounding up what was said in the paragraph.

Knowledge is Empowerment Having a clear idea of what do you need to do ? You need to start with a paragraph that contains a topic sentence (subject + verb) + controlling idea that announces the specific area to be discussed Your topic has to satisfy the requirements of your course, but also be an exciting topic to learn

Knowledge is Empowerment Start with some actions: 1.You need to focus on the assignment 2.Think about the point you want to make 3.Write your point in the first sentence, your topic sentence 4.Lets start searching for terms and sub-terms or subjects

Knowledge is Empowerment For example : Terms Sub-terms 1.Fairy tales 2.Healthcare 3.Management 4.Tribes, Reservations 5.Evolution 6.Drug abuse 7.Electronic Resources 1.Snow White, Cinderella, 2.Hospitals, nursing homes 3.Hospitals, healthcare 4.California, Missions 5.Species, man, mammals 6.Teens, adolescents 7.Journals, books, images, maps

Knowledge is Empowerment More examples : 1.Escherichia coli 2.Hispanics 3.Endocrine 4.Nutrition 5.United States 6.Mohawk Indian 7.Policy & politics 8.Beauty & the beast 1.Research 2.Health care 3.Disorders 4.Elderly 5.Industrial Revolution 6.Traditions 7.Healthcare 8.Beaumont

Knowledge is Empowerment Electronic sources where you can find terms, sub-terms, keywords, etc. 1.Books related to the subject 2.Articles from academic databases 3.Google scholar 4.Merriam-Webster dictionary 5.Encyclopedia Britannica 6.Synonyms Note: Select the above electronic resources and save the link in “bookmark this page”

Knowledge is Empowerment Where to look ? Books: – Go to the last pages, look for the index or glossary, and search your terms – Read the introduction, you may find good ideas for your topic – Or in Google books look for the book reviews or select Free books – From the book: Cultural competence in Health: a guide for professionals, by Wen-Shing Tseng See the Index see example, Page 134: Culturally competency, 12, 17, 128 Cultural empathy, 128 Culture guidance, 129

Knowledge is Empowerment An example from EBSCO Articles: – Read the abstract – Look the keywords, subject terms – Learn the terms definitions from internet-look for academic sources like Merriam-Webster Dictionary From: Effect of protein intake on bone and muscle mass in elderly: Subject terms Muscular atrophy Prevention Bones-metabolism Osteoporosis Amino acids Nutrition- requirements

Knowledge is Empowerment EBSCO is the provider of most of US UNIVERSITY Online Full text databases EBSCO databases have subject terms indexes EBSCO Multidisciplinary “Academic Search Premier ” is one of the main databases Next, we will learn how to access terms and keywords Databases

Knowledge is Empowerment First, let’s learn the steps to access USU databases: please go to our site and select Library (1). Click on Full Text Database Nursing or any College (2). Select Academic Search Premier EBSCO(3) and register (4). Ask the USU librarian for ID & Password. From your USU to

Knowledge is Empowerment Let’s search for terms in Academic Search Premier Click in “subject terms” and start searching for words- nouns-keywords. For example, for Electronic Resources (information resources) use “Electronic information resource ”, Think what term, subject or noun you would like to search

Knowledge is Empowerment The presentation is similar when searching EBSCO databases: Medline, Eric, PsycArticles, Cinahl, Business Source Elite & Academic Search Premier

See where I wrote the term or subject to be search, please write your term. Now click the Browse button and see the results listed

Knowledge is Empowerment From the previous slide, Please clicked “Electronic information resource searching”, to see all the sub terms. Then clicked in the same term above and retrieved a list of terms: broader, narrower, related and used for. Perhaps you will have to go through the list and select the term or nouns more close to your research topic From the list select more specific terms

Click in the subject term of your interest

1.If you were interested in searching, you select as many terms as you need 2. Change OR for AND, then click Add

Once the terms appeared, click “search” For example, I clicked: “Federated searching”, AND “Search engines” AND “Electronic information resources”

Knowledge is Empowerment From the previous slide, you can select your topic of research ; – Information retrieval – Assisted searching – Boolean searching – Federated searching – Information- seeking strategies – Internet searching – Keyword searching – Search engines – Electronic information resources – Online databases

Knowledge is Empowerment Remember, you need to combine terms (the topic of your sentence) with other terms (controlling idea) 1.Think of the terms from the list as the “topic of your sentence” 2.And the new terms that announces the specific area to be discussed as the “controlling idea” 3.Let’s combine the terms in the next slide

Knowledge is Empowerment – Information retrieval – Assisted searching – Boolean searching – Federated searching – Information- seeking strategies – Internet searching – Keyword searching – Search engines – Electronic information resources – Online databases – Electronic resources – Academic libraries – Databases – Information retrieval – Internet searching – Federated searching – Information retrieval – Educational technology – Literacy – User Terms from previous slide (blue background) and new terms in white background:

Knowledge is Empowerment Examples: 1.Electronic Resources 2.Fairy tales 3.Healthcare 4.Management 5.Informatics 6.Evolution 7.Drug abuse 1.Information retrieval 2.Snow White 3.Quality services 4.Human resources 5.Patient records 6.DNA 7.Pregnancy

Knowledge is Empowerment Are you ready to define your terms or subject for your research topic? 1.By searching “subject terms” you are learning the database vocabulary 2.You can also search the database, see the titles from the result list and click in the title to read the abstract 3.For more information, please go to EBSCO: Subjects, People and Places Advanced Search dv_guided.html dv_guided.html

Knowledge is Empowerment Examples: Perhaps you want to learn more about a specific topic and see the availability of academic full text literature Select as many terms as you need or select only one, for example “federated searching” and see the results

Knowledge is Empowerment Select full text to retrieve complete articles If unhappy with the results, click “Help” or call the Librarian

Do you remember how to ask for APA citation ? Read the abstract, it will help you selecting your research topic

Knowledge is Empowerment Let me know if you need assistance Catalina Lopez or (619) Ext 2017 THANKS