Building Vocabluary and Developing Library Strategies for Writing Students Writing

Introduction ENC and ARI are introductory courses to composition for students needing basic writing instruction and a review of grammar. Courses stress clarity, organization, development and correctness in writing. Students in ENC and ARI will demonstrate information processing through basic computer skills consisting of appropriate use of library resources, accessing web-based materials, and submitting assignments in MLA format.

Increasing Your Vocabulary Click on the link below and watch this short YouTube video on Vocabulary.

Now let’s learn how to find an article through the MCTC library by using EBSCOHost. Be sure to read the red text boxes.

Select EBSCOhost Web

Check Academic Search Premier and hit continue.

This is the EBSCOhost search screen, we are searching in the academic database for articles

Let’s search for “earthquake and Haiti”

Below are our search results, click on the title for the first article to access the entire article.

From the article record, click on PDF full text

This will show you the article as it appears in the journal

From the record screen you can use the Tools menu to the right of the article to Cite the source

Look for the MLA citation, highlight it and copy and past it into a Word document for your bibliography.

Quiz grades are recorded online an will be sent to your instructor from the library. Your next step is to return to the library Information Literacy web page and take the Writing Quiz. Good Luck! Today you have learned strategies for building your vocabulary and how to search, retrieve, and document articles in EBSCOHost