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Instructor: Ms. B. Pescar
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

CONTENTS

STEP 1: Selecting a Topic

Before you begin using search tools to hunt down the sources your will need to write your essay, you need to select a topic.

  • Mental Health (stress, anxiety)
  • Medicine (alternative, natural, vitamins, protein bars, sunscreen)
  • Fitness  (yoga, pilates, walking)
  • Diet and nutrition (diets, organic foods)
  • Recreation (sports, reading, travel, massage)
  • Personal finance

STEP 2: Find articles

  • Academic Onefile - database of articles from magazines and journals.
    Do a KEYWORD SEARCH and a SUBJECT SEARCH

General:

periodical database

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Citation

"Children and nutrition"
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..."

STEP 3: Find Books

One research tip we can suggest is to look at books with "How to" in the titles. For example, you may want to find a book

DIRECTIONS FOR TOPIC IDEAS:
1. Go to the Library homepage.
2. Click on "Library Catalog".  At the Library Catalog screen, and locate the word "BROWSE"
3. Click to open "BROWSE". Type in the phrase "How to" and select TITLE
4. You should get a list of book titles with the phrase "How to"

 

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