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1 First-Year Survey Cory Stevens Head of Public Services

2 Introduction Survey given during Orientation 2002 to all incoming first-year students Designed to measure experience, skills and expectations regarding research, the library, and academic honesty

3 Academic Honesty

4 Academically dishonest, or not?

5 Expectations

6 For sources, how important are these qualities?

7 You will successfully complete most research projects by using:

8 Research Skills

9 The best place to find a book on a topic is… Online library catalog Periodical database Web search engine

10 The best place to find a journal/magazine article on a topic is… Online library catalog Periodical database Web search engine

11 How would you search for a book about Ernest Hemingway? author: Hemingway subject: Hemingway title: Hemingway keyword: Hemingway

12 Interpreting Citations

13 DePalma, J. A. 1999. Nucleotide Variation in the p53 Tumor-Suppressor gene of voles from Chernobyl, Ukraine. Mutation Research. 439: 25-36 book chapter in a book essay in a book journal article

14 Faull, Katherine M. “Self Encounters: Two Eighteenth-Century African Memoirs from Moravian Bethlehem.” In Cross-Currents: Germany, Africa and America, in the Modern World, edited by C. Aisha Blackshire-Belay, Leroy Hopkins, and David MacBride. New York: Camdenhouse, 1998. book chapter in a book essay in a book journal article

15 AU: Erisman, H Michael SO: Latin American Politics and Society, 2002, 44, 1, spring, 145-153 What issue of Latin American Politics and Society will you find this article in? 2002 / Volume 44, Number 1 Volume 1, Spring 2002, 145

16 THE END cstevens@lfc.edu for more info cstevens@lfc.edu


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