February 19, Information Literacy: Developmental Psychology

February 19, Agenda Using Cavalog Searching appropriate databases APA style Annotated bibliography Topic ideas

February 19, Using Holy Spirit Library CAVALOG Browsing for topics: –Connect to Cavalog –Beneath the search box –On the right sidebar, select “Call Number” –Call number: BF, HV Searching for topics: –Select Words or Phrase –Search: television violence and children

February 19, Finding articles Databases Link Databases Link from the Library’s web page: SUBJECT—Psychology –PsycARTICLES (full text) –PsycINFO (abstracts) –Academic Search Premier (full text)

February 19, APA style See HSL web page: Style Guides linkStyle Guides –Author(s) first names are abbreviated to initials. –Date follows author and is in parentheses –Journal/book titles are underlined –Only use volume numbers Electronic articles are cited differently Hint: Word 2007 has a citation/bibliography creator

February 19, Annotated bibliography Purpose –Introduction to scholarly/professional literature title, purpose, authors, publisher, bibliographies, no pictures, advertising reading level –Workable topic for presentation –Introduction to APA style

February 19, What is a bibliography? A list of works that have some relationship to each other –All the works by one author –All the works published in a particular place –Works on one particular subject Found at the end of an article, paper, in book form

February 19, What makes up a bibliography? Citations or references Books= –Author or editor, title, publisher, place of publication, date Articles= –Author(s), title of article, title of journal, volume, pages, date of publication Arranged in a particular style or format

February 19, Annotated bibliography help sheet Information Sheets link:Information Sheets –What is an annotated bibliography? –The first step is reading –What information should annotations contain?

February 19, Sample bibliography Long term effects of child custody disputes* Which adhere to –APA guidelines –Scholarly Journals –Current Years * Document on the Research wikiwiki

February 19, Annotated bibliography Questions –Verify the # of Articles, Entries –Is a summary page required? –Is a copy of the title page for each document required?

February 19, things to remember Scholarly journals Use 4-6 different journal titles Current 5 yrs APA Style Alphabetical Order

February 19, Outline for annotated bibliography Pick a topic Search databases Locate articles Read Summarize Write bibliography in APA style

February 19, Topic ideas Divorce & its effects Eating disorders FAS Drug abuse and its effects Child abuse and its longitudinal effects Violence and children, adolescents, ethnic group Depression and children TV violence Any Psychological disorders from the DSM IV Adolescent pregnancy Academic achievement and sports, music, etc. Death of a parent, spouse, child Post traumatic stress disorder Terminal disease

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