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Carnegie High School Fall 2015 Frederic Murray Assistant Professor MLIS, University of British Columbia BA, Political Science, University of Iowa Instructional Services Librarian Al Harris Library frederic.murray@swosu.edu
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Topics Middle Ages/England Renaissance/England 1984/George Orwell
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Identifying Keywords: Identify the significant terms and concepts that describe your topic from your thesis statement or research question. These terms will become the key for searching catalogs, databases, and search engines for information about your subject.
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Example Orwell and language 1984 and Politics Eric Blair and writing Newspeak Freedom
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Boolean AND = Narrow OR = Expand NOT = Exclude
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Keywords & Boolean Create search strings… Renaissance and England and war Renaissance and England and art English art and middle ages
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Keywords & Boolean Orwell and Freedom and 1984 Newspeak and Orwell
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1984 and Advertising and Orwell
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Discovery Refine Results –Source Types News Magazines Academic Journals –Full Text –Subject
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Discovery - Results HTML PDF Full Text through Link Source
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APA Citation Guides: Digital Citing Sources in MLA Style : Al Harris Library (SWOSU) http://campusguides.swosu.edu/mlastyle OWL: Purdue Online Writing Lab https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/ You can access these remotely without being a SWOSU student.
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Questions? Contact me: –Frederic Murray 774-7113 frederic.murray@swosu.edu
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Thanks!
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