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ESL

Instructor: Mr. D. Detwiler
ESL 104

Final exam research tips

1. Find books and videos using the Library Catalog. Type in topics: California missions, California Gold Rush, Ellis Island, Grand Canyon, San Andreas Fault, Lewis and Clark, Alaska.

2. Find articles in magazines using Infotrac.

Academic Onefile and General Onefile are two different databases of articles from magazines and journals. RESEARCH TIP: type in your subject phrase "Television" and narrow topic to "children" or "social aspects" or "health aspects".

Infotrac:

periodical database

leads to

Citation

"Children and effects of television on their behavior"
Resto, Jeri
Child Development 2:5 (2,123:March) 235.

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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 view..."

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