Information Competency Literacy Research Guides

Instructor: Ms. M. Howell
English 110

PURPOSE: This research guide has been designed to help you complete your research assignment. This research guide has been designed to help you with your research assignment.

The Writing Assignment: Imagine that you’re a writer for the magazine Families in Today’s World or Parents, and you’ve been assigned the task of writing one of the articles for next month’s publication. You get to choose your own topic, but it must be related to the themes of the magazine, or themes related to the family and children in the novel, Wuthering Heights (see themes). You’re required to include at least seven quotes and/or summaries from at least three sources. In addition, you are required to include a list of your sources on a Works Cited page.

STEP 1: So...what's the difference between KEYWORD v. SUBJECT searching?

Keyword search/Dartboard = finds items that contain your keywords.

Subject search = finds items that are about that topic

TOPICS	Keyword and Subject search
1. Addiction a. Alcohol b. Gambling c. Drugs	a. subject "alcoholism b. subject "compulsive gambling" c. key word and subject words "drug abuse"
2. Clash of class and money
3. Marriage a. For status and money b. Forced marriages	a. b. Keyword search for "forced marriage"
4. Illiteracy	Keyword and subject words "literacy".
5. Single Parenting	Keyword and subject words "single parents".
6. Abuse a. Child Abuse b. Patriarchical Abuse	a. key word and subject words "Child Abuse"
7.Dysfunction and Chaos in Families	use "dysfunctional families"
8.Mental Illness (feigned or real)	subject "mental disorder"; limit by subject and get narrow terms.
9. Discrimination	subject "Discrimination"
10.Social Class	Keyword "social class" and limit by subject . Good narrow terms
11. Oppression	Keyword, limit by subject and limit by subdivison
12 Exploitation	Keyword, limit by subject
13. Violence	subject Violence
14. Love	Keyword "love" and limit by subject; limit by subdivison
15. Abandonment and Betrayal	Not much on abandonment. More on revenge
16. Intense Suffering	keyword "suffering"

STEP 2: Find articles

General Onefile database

Do a KEYWORD SEARCH and " Limit by" subject or subdivision.
Do a SUBJECT SEARCH and " Limit by" subject or subdivision.

General:

periodical database

leads to

Citation

"Children and nutrition"
Resto, Jeri
Child Development 2:5 (2,123:March) 235.

leads to

Article text.

"The formation of the ideas of children constitutes a study equally interesting from a literary and a scientific point of view..."

Websites

Family Issues:USA.gov

Medline: Family issues and social issues.

National Survey of America's Families - presents the results from the 2002, 1999 and 1997 surveys of the economic, health, and social characteristics of children, adults under the age of 65, and their families. NSAF data collection was conducted for the Urban Institute and Child Trends by Westat, a nationally renowned survey research firm.

National Clearing House on Families and Youth

The Media Family: Electronic Media in the Lives of Infants, Toddlers, Preschoolers, and Their Parents
The Kaiser Family Foundation 2006 report shows the extent of electronic media in the lives of many young child.

MentalHelp.net. Award-winning guide to mental health, psychology, & psychiatry online

Pew Research Center
A nonpartisan "fact tank" provides information on issues shaping America. They address religion, politics.

Family and Youth Services Bureau
This Federal agency supports young people, particularly runaway and homeless youth