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Instructor:
Ms. Carol Stevens
Child Development 125
This guide is
intended as a research tool to help you complete your outside
reading assignment. In summary: you are expected to
compare two different magazine and/or journal articles on the
same subject. Please review this
research assignment.
Finding Journal Articles:
What is a journal?
A journal is an ongoing publication
on a specific discipline. Journals contain articles written by scholars.
Journals are more timely than books, journal articles are
subject to peer review, they are specialized and focused, and they generally
answer specific questions with empirical research. Sometimes it is difficult to distinguish between a
journal approved by your instructor and a magazine that is not
approved by your instructor. For example, the periodical titled
"Parenting" is not considered a journal.
Journals
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Journals
publish articles written by scholars and researchers.
Journals are often published by professional associations. Articles in
journals usually include
bibliographies.
Examples:
Child Development
Child Study Journal |
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Magazines
publish articles written for a general audience. Articles in magazines
rarely include
bibliographies.
Examples:
Parenting
Time |
How do I find a
journal article?
STEP 1:
Access Infotrac:Onefile.
Go to the
Library homepage
-> Magazines/Journals, and select InfoTrac.
Infotrac is a periodical research
database allow you to find articles from journals and magazines. A search
of a periodical index results in citations. Citations identify the
actual articles.
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Infotrac:
periodical database |
leads to
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Citation
"Child and Health"
Noakes, Madeline and Resto, Jeri.
Child Development
25 Nov. 2007: 92
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leads to
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Article text.
"The formation of the ideas of children constitutes a
study equally interesting from a literary and a scientific point of
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Other Child Development Resources
Books:
Search the
Library Catalog for books on your
subject using specific search terms. Or you may
want to browse the library shelves in the following sections:
- BF (child psychology)
- E (children and socialization)
- HQ (child development and family)
- LB, LC (children and education)
- RC (child psychiatry)
- RJ (child care/child rearing/ pediatrics)
Suggested
Websites:
American Sociological Society
http://www.asanet.org/
Anna Freud Center
http://www.annafreudcentre.org/
Children’s Defense Fund
http://www.childrensdefense.org/
ERIC
http://www.eric.ed.gov/
Family Violence Prevention Fund (FVPF) http://endabuse.org/
Famous Psychologist: Eric Erickson http://psychology.about.com/blsubist_erik.htm
John Piaget Society http://www.piaget.org/biography/biog.html
Childstudy.net - The Child Development Website
http://childstudy.net/
National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) http://www.naeyc.org
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) http://www.ed.gov/NCES/Index.html
National Institutes of Health http://www.nih.gov
Sigmund Freud and the Freud Archives http://users.rcn.com/brill/freudarc.html
Vygotsky and Language Acquisition
http://www.sk.com.br/sk-vygot.html
Vygotsky Resources http://www.kolar.org/vygotsky/
World Health Organization http://www.who.org
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Cajon, California 92019 