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Shakespeare

resourceress — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:10:29 CDT

Time-Saving Reminders
Organize – Select a note-taking method that suits you AND supports actively engaging with sources, and then apply that method to keep track of which ideas and insights you’ve gleaned from each source. This will make writing the paper easier and decrease the chances that you’ll plagiarize.
Evaluate - Because there are so many online sources about Shakespeare, it is particularly important that you take the time to evaluate the authority of each source (other than those on this guide) BEFORE investing your time reading the information it provides.
Pause – Stop periodically to assess your progress. Are you staying focused on your essential/subsidiary questions and thesis or have you wandered off on an interesting tangent? Determine what information you still need to find to support your thesis, refocus your attention, and re-search.

Research Process Support

Refining your topic
Developing a thesis (includes a thesis generator)
Concept mapping

Exercise instructions
Interactive sample from UCONN (follow instructions at top of page)
Free online mind-mapping tools

Keyword vs. subject searching
Search the MW Library - from school or from home

See Resource Lists - Public tab - Shakeseare Resource List

Destiny search tips (PDF)

Search area libraries individually or all at once
Critical reading
Taking notes
Evaluating primary sources
Evaluating web sites
Citing your sources

Noodle Tools (get school subscription information from the library)
MLA guides from UC Berkeley (PDF) and Diane Hacker
Zotero

Mega Sources
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet - From Terry Gray at Palomar College, widely recognized as THE annotated guide to online sources for studying Shakespeare - Sections include works, life and times, theatre, criticism, Renaissance contemporaries, and sources.
Encyclopaedia Britannica's Guide to Shakespeare - Sections include the Bard, the plays, chronology, Elizabethan Age, Elizabethan Actors and Writers, the Elizabethan Theatre, and more...
Shake Sphere: A Shakespeare Study Guide - From Michael Cummings, a freelance writer and college instructor - Sections include Plays, Sonnets, Long Poems; Shakespeare's craft; The Theatre; Shakespeare's Life; Shakespeare's Times; Glossaries and Lists; and more.
Glossary of Terms Common in Shakespeare's work - Part of Shake Sphere.

Literary Reference Center (requires login) - combines plot summaries, synopses, work overviews, articles, essays, book reviews, and biographies from major respected reference works, books, and over 420 literary journals with the full-text of Shakespeare's poems and plays, as well as many other poems and stories.
JSTOR (requires login) - Multidisciplinary archive of 700+ full-text scholarly journals. Use Advanced Search for the most flexible search options (JSTOR tips), including limiting results to one or more disciplines, such as Art and Art History; History; Language and Literature; and Performing Arts.
Project MUSE (can only access full-text from school) - Database of 300+ full-text scholarly journals for the humanities, including current scholarship (MUSE tips).

His Life
Timeline - From Terry Gray's site - Click on left menu links to move through time.
Life Outline - From the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust - Describes schooling and Stratford during Shakespeare's lifetime and includes information about his family and career, as well as a section about the question of authorship.
History Resource Center (requires login from home) - Articles from leading scholarly publications, an array of primary sources, and images, maps and charts which provide expansive geographic and chronologic research materials for the study of world history.
Literary Reference Center (requires login) - combines plot summaries, synopses, work overviews, articles, essays, book reviews, and biographies from major respected reference works, books, and over 420 literary journals with the full-text of Shakespeare's poems and plays, as well as many other poems and stories.

His Works
Shakespeare Searched - Search engine designed to provide quick access to passages from Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. Clusters search results by topic, work, and character to make it easy to find exactly what you're looking for.
IPL Shakespeare Bookshelf - Full-text of works in the 1914 edition of the Oxford Shakespeare available through Bartleby - Click on book's spine to view it.
Complete Works of Shakespeare, Globe Edition ,1866 - From UVA's Electronic Text Center - Select the Web Version link beside the title you wish to view.
Shakespeare in Quarto - From the British Library - High quality images of the British Library's 93 copies of the 21 plays by Shakespeare printed in quarto before the theatres closed in 1642. You can view one at a time or compare two copies.
Literary Reference Center (requires login) - combines plot summaries, synopses, work overviews, articles, essays, book reviews, and biographies from major respected reference works, books, and over 420 literary journals with the full-text of Shakespeare's poems and plays, as well as many other poems and stories.

Criticism of His Works
Early Modern Literary Studies - Webliography of sources for literary study of Shakespeare. Although some links are out-of-date, the link to blogs and ejournals at the top is useful, and these ejournals complement those in MUSE and JSTOR.
Literary Reference Center (requires login) - combines plot summaries, synopses, work overviews, articles, essays, book reviews, and biographies from major respected reference works, books, and over 420 literary journals with the full-text of Shakespeare's poems and plays, as well as many other poems and stories.
JSTOR and Project MUSE are also excellent sources for literary criticism.

His Theatre
Shakespeare's Theatre - From the British Library - Don't overlook the links at the bottom for more information about playhouses, companies, and players.
History Resource Center (requires login from home) - Articles from leading scholarly publications, an array of primary sources, and images, maps and charts which provide expansive geographic and chronologic research materials for the study of world history.
Literary Reference Center (requires login) - combines plot summaries, synopses, work overviews, articles, essays, book reviews, and biographies from major respected reference works, books, and over 420 literary journals with the full-text of Shakespeare's poems and plays, as well as many other poems and stories.

His Times
England in the 16th Century - From the companion site for the PBS production, In Search of Shakespeare - Navigate to locations by clicking names on the map.
The British Monarchy - Official site from the British government
Life in Elizabethan Times - By Maggie Pierce Secara, writer and Renaissance re-enactor. Sections include Games, Food, Money, Religion, Language, Weddings, Masters & Servants, Occupations, The Peers, London, Fashion, Children, Household Management, Pastimes, and more...
History Resource Center (requires login from home) - Articles from leading scholarly publications, an array of primary sources, and images, maps and charts which provide expansive geographic and chronologic research materials for the study of world history.
Making of Modern Law (requires login from home) - Digital images of 22,000 legal treatises on US and British law published from 1800 through 1926, including those about law in Shakespeare's time.
Literary Reference Center (requires login) - combines plot summaries, synopses, work overviews, articles, essays, book reviews, and biographies from major respected reference works, books, and over 420 literary journals with the full-text of Shakespeare's poems and plays, as well as many other poems and stories.

His Influence
Shakespeare Illustrated - From Harry Rusche at Emory University - 18th and 19th century art (mostly 19th century) inspired by Shakespeare's plays.
Literary Reference Center (requires login) - combines plot summaries, synopses, work overviews, articles, essays, book reviews, and biographies from major respected reference works, books, and over 420 literary journals with the full-text of Shakespeare's poems and plays, as well as many other poems and stories.

Sites with Broader Coverage
Biography Resource Center (requires login from home) - biographical essays about famous people of all types - writers, political leaders, artists, etc.
English Poetry, 1579-1830 - Contains over 10,000 works by over 1,000 poets who wrote in Spenserian stanzas or composed an imitation of Gray's Elegy. Documents how each writer was read by contemporaries and successors. Navigate with "To the Database" drop-down menu choices.
16thc Renaissance English Literature - Part of the award-winning Luminarium site. Writers include Sir Thomas More, Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, and more. Use the buttons on the bottom left to switch to other time periods (e.g. Medieval, 17thc, 18thc).

Literary criticism

resourceress — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:05:20 CDT

Need to find criticism about a work of literature? Open web searching will quickly leave you frustrated. Instead, focus on the relevant subscription databases to which MLWGS Library subscribes: Literature Resource Center, JSTOR, and Project MUSE. This guide is designed to help make your search for literary criticism successful.

Literary criticism vs. literary theory
Succinct comparison by John Lye, Department Chair for English Language & Literature at Brock University in Ontario, using an example about Conrad's Heart of Darkness.
Introduction to modern literary theory
Since literary criticism inherently involves application of literary theory, here is an introduction to literary theories from Dr. Kristi Siegel, Associate Professor for English at Mount Mary College in Wisconsin.
Glossary of literary terms (from Gale Cengage)

Although book reviews share traits with literary criticism, reviews are not considered equivalent to criticism. However, they do shed light on a work's reception at the time of its publication, and when the credentials of the reviewer are substantial (e.g. T.S. Eliot), reviews in Times Literary Supplement and similar reputable but non-scholarly publications may be acceptable for your assignment. Check with your teacher to be certain.

MW databases
Literary Reference Center - Combines plot summaries, synopses, work overviews, articles, essays, book reviews, and biographies from major respected reference works, books, and over 420 literary journals, with author interviews, full-text classic and contemporary poems and short stories, and over 7100 classic texts.

Search for an author name in combination with a work title or literary trait (e.g. "william shakespeare" symbolism)
Focus on the results under the Criticism tab.
For 20th century titles, you may find relevant results under Reviews as well.
Advanced search also allows you to limit your results to literary criticism, work overviews, etc.
You may find additional articles/essays about your writer/work by doing a PowerSearch (focus on the academic journals results tab).

JSTOR - archive of full-text scholarly articles in a variety of disciplines (access delayed 3-5 years). Journal titles include African American Review, American Literature, Feminist Studies, and Renaissance Quarterly.

Use Advanced Search
Limit to articles for critical essays
Limit to reviews for book reviews (and limit to the date range in which the work was published)
Limit to Language & Literature journals

Project MUSE - full-text scholarly articles in the humanities, including current scholarship. Journal titles include Modern Fiction Studies, New Literary History, Tolkien Studies, and Victorian Poetry.

Use Advanced Search
Limit to articles for critical essays
Limit to reviews for book reviews (and limit to the date range in which the work was published)
Search for a writer or title (esp. if work is anonymous) in Subject Headings
For works with book reviews, use the Title Reviewed or Author Reviewed search limiters

Follow leads in reference and further reading lists

Search for article titles in the databases above, in Google Scholar, or VCU's Journal Finder
Search for books in Google Book and Worldcat

Open web resources
Google Scholar - In advanced search, limit subject area to Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities. This helps eliminate results for Beowulf that refer to a computer network configuration used to cluster PC's.
IPL: Literary Criticism - directory of related sites compiled by the Internet Public Library
Literary Resources on the Net - a webliography maintained by Jack Lynch, professor at Rutgers
Luminarium - select the desired time period, and then click on essays and articles (near bottom of menu) to access a menu of essays and articles organized by author/work
Voice of the Shuttle - "woven" by Alan Liu, professor at the University of California - Santa Barbara and a team of graduate students, Voice of the Shuttle is an extensive database of online resources for the study of literature. It can be challenging to navigate, so read the navigation tips before getting started.

VCU databases
Are you fortunate enough to qualify for a VCU eID (e.g. you need to be in the 2nd semester of a dual enrollment course)? Then you may wish to peruse their literary criticism databases, especially ABELL and MLA International Bibliography.

Books in the MW library
REF 809 TWE - Twentieth-century literary movements dictionary
801.95 EAG - Literary theory: an introduction
803 CUD - The Penguin dictionary of literary terms and literary theory

Finding books in university libraries
Specific chapters or essays within a book may prove very useful. Most university libraries use the Library of Congress (LC) classification system. When searching their online library catalogs, consider these tips about conducting subject searches (vs. key word searches) for a writer/work:

Search the writer's name (last name, first name) with the words criticism and interpretation

Example: walker, alice criticism and interpretation

Search for books about a specific literary period or movement in the following format: nationality genre time period history and criticism

Example: american fiction 19th century history and criticism

In university libraries, the following are some of the areas where these books will be shelved:

PN - Literature history and collections (general)
PQ - French, Italian, Spanish, and Portugese literature
PR - English literature
PS - American literature
PT - German, Dutch, and Scandinavian literature
PZ - Fiction and juvenile literatures

Citing criticism
Scholars studying literature typically use Modern Language Association (MLA) style.

Article from an online subscription service such as Gale's Literature Resource Center
Article in an online journal (one freely available - rare for literary criticism)
Part of an online book
Short work from a web site (e.g. specific web page of a larger web site)

Noodle Tools - citation making tool (APA or MLA) for which MW Library has a subscription. Export your citations to Word without losing formatting. Get school account information from the library and create your personal ID using mw_ to begin (e.g. mw_msmith). Do not use your full name.

iGoogle

resourceress — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:17:34 CDT

One way to organize several of your online research tools (and other web favorites) is on a customizable, portable iGoogle page. Unlike the home pages that preceded it (e.g. Yahoo, the old Google home page, etc.), iGoogle allows you to organize more content by providing both a main home page and the option to add topic-based tabs. You can even create your own personalized gadgets to add to your page and/or share with others. Like other Google tools, iGoogle is free, but requires that you have a Google account.

For example, the sample below has a home page and topic-focused tabs about books, poetry, technology, education, and science. There's also a customized gadget for MLWGS library that links to the library's blog.

Getting Started
Go to the iGoogle page and click Get started in the (Don't have an iGoogle page? Get started.) message under the search box.

This will bring up a pop-up screen on which you choose a theme (you can change this later) and some topics of interest to you (e.g. news, art, technology, politics).

Based on these choices, Google creates a starter page for you that you can then customize to your needs. At this point, your iGoogle page only exists in your browser's cookies, so before you spend time customizing, make sure you sign in to your Google account by clicking Sign In at the upper right (beside Classic Home).

Customizing your iGoogle page
Once you're signed in to your Google account, start customizing your page. You can customize the weather gadget with your zip code, rearrange gadgets by dragging and dropping them, delete gadgets, or add new ones. To add new ones, click on Add Stuff (link near the bottom left of the page's header image). This will take you to the page pictured below where you can find new gadgets like ones for Google Book and WorldCat.

Notice that you can browse for gadgets by topic using the menu on the left or search for gadgets using the box in the upper right. Don't see your favorite blog, news, or other RSS feed listed? Click the Add feed or gadget link near the lower left, then copy and paste the URL of the desired feed into the box that appears. You can even create your own gadget by following the link on the lower right and completing a few simple steps.

You can add the gadget for MLWGS Library shown below to your iGoogle page by clicking the image.

Have fun!

Tools for research

resourceress — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:36:04 CDT

Descriptions and tips about using specific research tools, such as Swivel or delicious. General advice about using a particular type of tool, such as a news aggregator, may fit better under tutorials. See Customizing news streams for an example of a tutorial.

Tool Menu
del.icio.us
diigo
Google Book
Google Reader
Google Scholar
iGoogle
Wikis
Yahoo! Pipes

American Sign Language

resourceress — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:31:42 CDT

A list of American Sign Language Dictionaries:

ASL Browser
ASL Pro (a comprehensive ASL dictionary, complete with a "Religious Signs" subsection)
ASL Pro Conversational Phrases (a guide to idioms and common ASL and English phrases)

Deaf Blogs and vLogs:

These are great for practicing your receptive skills and learning about today's issues in the Deaf world.

Deaf Read (a list of the most-read blogs and vLogs)
Ella's Flashlight (an articulate, thoughtful, and easy-to-read vLog)
Kiss-Fist ASL (one man's commentary on living in a hearing world. Lower quality video.)
ABC (jokes interspersed with educational posts, presented in 100% ASL)
Joey Baer's ASL Vlog (a highly-recommended vlog on a variety of topics - Deafhood, NAD, Deaf Ed, Gallaudet, and Leadership)

Google Scholar

resourceress — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:21:37 CDT

Cross-search several databases, including Google Book, free and subscription databases containing scholarly journals, and open source archives of pre-prints, using Google Scholar.

Setting your preferences
To save yourself time in the long run, take a few seconds to click Scholar Preferences beside the basic search box to set your preferences to include VCU results in the Library Links feature. Search for VCU, click Find Library, then make sure there's a check beside VCU.

Searching
The first tip is to use the Advanced Search interface if you need to limit results by date or if you are unfamiliar with combining search words or using limiters like intitle: in the basic search box.

To research women in the labor force during World War II, your search might look something like this.

Working with Search Results

Pay close attention to the following information about each result

The Cited by number. This will show up at the beginning of the last line of the result.
The source of the document or book. This will show up at the end of the green line under the result title.

More about Cited by
The Cited by information is helpful in at least two ways.

Follow the link to locate related studies and publications - ones which cite the found article.
The higher the number, the more likely the result is a seminal study about the topic. For instance, for the two results from Google Book below, the second example has been cited in 437 subsequent publications, a good indication that it is an important work to consult and a priority to access and read.

More about sources
For both examples below, the source is Google Book (books.google.com). Notice that only the first result is marked as a [BOOK] before its title. This can occur because some results (like the second one) refer to a specific chapter within a book instead.

For Google Book results, you can click Library Search (WorldCat) to see if the book is available in an area library. If you enter your zip code, WorldCat shows which area libraries have the book, starting with the one closest to you. Library Search is usually more efficient then using the Get it @ VCU link which may precede it (as in the first result above) because it searches VCU and Richmond area public libraries in one search.

For results from JSTOR (like the one above) or muse.jhu.edu (a.k.a. Project MUSE), click the result title and use your MW login to access the article (remember that our MUSE access only works at school).

For results from other sources, like the one above from UChicago Press, click Get it @ VCU Online if that link appears after the result title. This will use VCU's Journal Finder to locate subscription databases that include the journal in which the article appears. If you have a VCU eID, you can click the database name and log in to access it. If you don't have a VCU eID, you may still be in luck. Note the names of the databases listed...

If the name begins GaleGroup, try a Gale PowerSearch with the article title and author.
If the name begins LexisNexis, try searching LexisNexis Scholastic for the article.

For more information about interpreting Scholar search results, see Google's help page.

Course resource lists

resourceress — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:27:54 CDT

These lists of suggested online resources have been compiled collaboratively by teachers and students and vary in their degree of detail. Feel free to edit the lists to add a resource, revise an annotation, update a broken link, or offer tips about navigating the site.

American Sign Language
Pre-AP French IV

Dig into the Deep Web

resourceress — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:43:04 CDT

Below is a PowerPoint presentation from a workshop with students in Mr. Wilkes's senior seminar (20th Century Topics: Genocide). Although it focuses on digging into the Deep Web for social studies topics, the strategies are useful across disciplines. The slideshow has been amended since the workshop to include screen shots that approximate the live search examples demonstrated during class.

Conducting a lit review

resourceress — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:42:00 CDT

Powerpoint presentation from a workshop with students in Mr. Walter's dual enrollment VCU Statistics course before they embarked on their first literature review.

Wikis

resourceress — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:35:22 CDT

Wikis, a catchy term for collaborative web sites, can be a great space to create study guides, publish creative writing with a group of friends, or gather a community's collective expertise on a topic (like this wiki attempts to do). Here's a slideshow from Julie Lindsay at Qatar Academy that explains a little more about what wikis are and how they might be used in an educational setting (including several examples of wikis that work).

Search tips

resourceress — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:33:51 CDT

General tips about searching the open web (e.g. Dig into the Deep Web),specific databases (e.g. JSTOR), or using a particular search engine (e.g. Relemed).

Search Tips Menu
Dig into the Deep Web
Keyword v. subject searches

Research guides

resourceress — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:28:45 CDT

As your resourceress, I'll be collaborating with students and teachers to create research guides to provide detailed research tips and resource recommendations about particular topics. Drafts of the guides are developed on Google Docs by a team of collaborators and when the draft is complete, I upload the guide to the wiki. Although specific teams will create the initial versions of the research guides, anyone may edit them or start discussion threads about them.

Research guides have a broader scope than the project guides in the library's bookmark account on delicious (which are annotated lists of online sources that support specific assignments) or course resource lists. In addition to including online sources, research guides may include search tips, key words, recommended books, or other content appropriate for the topic.

Research Guide Menu

News about research

resourceress — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:27:12 CDT

Most people learn about emerging research through the news, whether they read their news online or in print, listen to it in a podcast or on the radio, or watch it on television or the web. Typically, only studies that journalists think will be popular with the American public make the news, such as studies about health issues and medical discoveries, education, business, and current social issues. But with the deluge of news out there, how can you sort through it to find media coverage of research studies?

Following leads
One way to find news about research is to examine the news feeds and alerts that keep journalists "in the know" about emerging research. Once you're familiar with the studies they're likely to hear about, you can plug key words from those studies into a news search engine to see if it has been picked up by the media. In addition to the sources below, you may want to check the press release sections of web sites for journals, professional organizations, and non-profit groups related to the topic you're studying.

Emerging research news - Multiple topics
Alpha Galileo (European research news)
BBC News
Eureka! Alerts
Newswise
New York Times

Emerging research news - Science, Health & Tech
Health Headlines (Association of Health Care Journalists)
Great Beyond (international news blog from Nature)
Knight Science Journalism Tracker
Nature News
Psycport (American Psychological Association)
ScienceNOW
Scientific American
SciTech Daily Review
Sciencebase (blog by a science writer in the UK)

Emerging research news - Education
National Center for Education Statistics

News search engines
News search engines return results from thousands of news streams, typically limited to the past 30 days. Google and Yahoo! offer Advanced Search which allows you to narrow a search by news source, location, and the field(s) in which search words appear. Google also has a news archive search, but results include many articles that require a subscription or payment to view.

Altavista News
Ask News
Digg
Google News and Google News - Advanced Search
Yahoo! News and Yahoo! News - Advanced Search

If you don't have a particular research study in mind when using a news search engine, the word study combined with one or two key words is usually effective (e.g. intelligence study). You may also try substituting related words in place of study (e.g. research, report, clinical trial, experiment, findings).

Using aggregators and alerts to stay current
Since checking several sites day after day is time-consuming, consider using news aggregators and news alerts to streamline your research. Of the sites above,updates for several are syndicated (i.e. have feeds) and can be organized with an aggregator (a.k.a. feed reader); others offer email alerts.

To learn how to customize news streams, see Customizing news streams.

Lost in translation
Journalists who write articles or produce podcasts about research must synthesize research findings so the general public can understand them, and sometimes important nuances get lost in the translation. This is particularly challenging for science, health and medical journalists. At the same time, journalists are under pressure to make their story marketable in a news landscape where dedicated health/science sections are being eliminated from many newspapers.

The Future of Science Journalism (ScienceWriters, Nov. 2007)
Medicine in the Mass Media (USA Today, Sept. 2002)

Monitoring reporting about research
Here are two organizations that scrutinize the quality of the media's translation of health information and the media's use of statistics in general (STATS even gives nearly annual Dubious Data awards):

Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making
STATS at George Mason University

Impact of media coverage on research
How important are the choices journalists make about which research to cover? Studies have indicated that when studies appear in the mass media they are likely to get more attention from research peers in that discipline, thereby generating related studies. So not only does research impact the media, but the media also impacts research.

Press Releases: Translating Research Into News (JAMA, June 2002)

Google Book

resourceress — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:05:24 CDT

Ah, that wonderful friend of readers and researchers (not to mention librarians!), the book. Back in the time of Gutenberg, books were considered quite revolutionary. Here's a funny take on this era when books were the new technology: The Medieval Help Desk - with English subtitles (2 min., 38 sec.).

Keyword v. subject searches

resourceress — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:29:09 CDT

In online library catalogs, databases, and lots of other places, you'll often have a choice between keyword searching, subject searching, or a combination of both (often possible with advanced search). What are the pros and cons of each? Here are a few resources to help you make informed choices.

Keyword vs. subject searching (concise introduction from Cal State - Northridge)

The slideshow below is one I use at U of R to review the pros and cons of keyword vs. subject searching and how to combine these methods. Although some screen shots are specific to U of R's library catalog, the general information aboutsearch methods is applicable across most databases and online library catalogs.

Taking notes

resourceress — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:52:19 CST

Your learning increases exponentially when you take notes effectively. The method you select will depend on the context of your note taking (e.g. during a class lecture, while reading a journal article) and your preferences.

Methods

Comparison of five note-taking methods - from CalPoly, succinct explanation of the pros and cons of five common note-taking methods:

Cornell
outlining
mapping
charting
sentence

Column notes vs. note cards - from Kitsilano Secondary Library, a concise comparision of these two methods - with visuals.
Cornell note-taking system (PDF) - visual explanation.
Cornell note-taking system explained - from Questa College - includes sample.
Goodbye note cards, hello Zotero - written by a historian - brief article comparing old and new ways of note-taking.
Lecture and class notes -from Dartmouth - tips for listening and note-taking.
Paraphrase and summary - from U of Toronto - clear explanation with examples.
Plagiarism: What it is and how to avoid it - from Indiana University

Templates and Tools

Column notes and combo notes templates are in the library's share folder

(Student share folder - Library Media Center - Taking notes)

Cornell graph paper generator
Diigo
Google Notebook
Noodle Tools - see Ms. Sellors to request an account
Note-taking templates (PDFs) - variety of templates for reading & researching
Zotero

Tutorials

resourceress — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:36:00 CST

Tutorials are how-to guides about engaging in a particular stage of the research process (e.g. note taking) or using a certain type of research tool, such as how to customize your news streams for a particular research assignment. For tutorials about using one specific tool like delicious, please embed the tutorial in the page about that tool.

Tutorial Menu
Conducting a literature review
Customizing news streams
Taking notes

Wiki structure and tags

resourceress — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:48:01 CST

The structure and tags for the library research wiki will emerge and evolve as we build it, but here are a few suggestions to get us started.

What to write about on the library research wiki

Course resource lists (related to courses taught at MW)
Research guides (for particular topics or disciplines)
Search tips (for finding certain source tips, using databases, advanced Google search tips, etc.)
Tools for research (for brainstorming, bookmarking, citing, etc.)
Tutorials (how-to's about using certain types of research tools - imbed tutorials related to only one specific tool on a page about that tool instead)

Creating a new page
Before creating a new page, go to the existing page with which the new page should be connected. For instance, before creating a page describing the data-sharing tool Swivel, click onTools for research, then on Add a new page in the Page Toolbox on the right. This will automatically make the page about Swivel a subpage of Tools in the wiki's navigation menu. Choose simple page names; in this case, the page name Swivel would be appropriate. Remember to add meaningful tags to your page using the guidelines below.

Guidelines for tagging new pages and edits on the wiki

Use verbs in their present active tense (e.g. evaluate instead of evaluating or evaluated)
Use singular nouns (e.g. database instead of databases)
Use a single word or a two-word phrase (e.g. visualization or data visualization rather than how to visualize data)
Avoid using adjectives or adverbs as tags
Whenever possible, use a tag already in use on the wiki.

Pre-AP French IV

ebbrown — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:38:58 CST

Online resources identified by Mrs. Brown's Pre-AP French IV students. These supplement the resources in the Explicating La Fontaine Project Guide in the library's bookmark account.

http://static.scribd.com/docs/e4yitefib9kvy.swf?INITIAL_VIEW=width
Source en anglais avec l'origine de la fable.
http://www.aesopfables.com/aesopjdlf.html

http://bonjourlafrance.net/french_literature/jean_de_la_fontaine_fables/index_fables_la_fontaine.htm#Book

http://oaks.nvg.org/lg2ra12.html

http://www.la-fontaine-ch-thierry.net/fables.html

http://www.thisfrenchlife.com/thisfrenchlife/2005/10/fables_of_jean_.html (histoire)

http://www.memodata.com/2004/fr/fables_de_la_fontaine/index.shtml
sweet site. gives you the definition of all the words if you double click

http://environnement.ecoles.free.fr/fables_de_la_fontaine/plan_du_site_fables_de_la_fontaine.htm

http://www.linternaute.com/dictionnaire/fr/**
french dictionary. might be helpful.

http://www.eturama.com/lafontaine/fables_en.php

http://books.google.com/books?id=jN-UU-LuBUYC
If you click preview, you can read parts of the book that discuss the meaning of the fables and give a good English translation (just in case you're really stuck on what the sentence means).

http://www.lisons.info/
gives the publication date

http://environnement.ecoles.free.fr/fables_de_la_fontaine/fables_de_la_fontaine.htm

I am not sure if this site will help you, but it helped me. It shows what book its from and the people thefables are written for.

World news resources

resourceress — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:09:06 CST

News search engines (search the past 30 days)

Altavista News
Ask News
Digg
Google News and Google News - Advanced Search
Yahoo! News and Yahoo! News - Advanced Search
Quick tip - If you have a free Google account, you can customize your Google News page to display U.S. news and news from your country and its allies. Then you can save the page and take it with you to access from any Internet-enabled computer.

Short on time? Search for news while you sleep by setting up a news alert for your country or region and topic. Find out how by reading the Customizing News Streams tutorial on the Library Research Wiki.

Online newspapers and news sites

World newspapers listed in the Internet Public Library Directory (language of paper listed beside title)
World news in English from World Press (for regional coverage, select region from left menu)
World newspapers listed in the World Press Directory
World newspapers in English - a list compiled by Kathleen Mattson and Dave Miller because foreign news is a personal interest of Dave's.
Topic-focused world news feeds from International Relations and Security Network based in Zurich, Switzerland, at the Center for Security Studies at ETH Zurich
Global Voices Online - Global Voices is a non-profit global citizens’ media project founded at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society that seeks to shine light on places and people other media often ignore. Browse by topic or country, or search.

Fluent in another language? Google and Yahoo! offer news search engines in other languages.

Google News - Chinese and Yahoo! News -Chinese
Google News - French and Yahoo! News - French
Google News - German and Yahoo! News - German
Google News - Italian and Yahoo! News - Italian
Google News - Russian
Google News - Spanish and Yahoo! News - Spanish

For more country choices, use the drop-down menu near the top of the Google News page or use the interactive Yahoo News! world map.

Older news (31 days+) in databases and archives
Lexis-Nexis Scholastic - access requires login available from the library

Gale PowerSearch - access from home requires login available from the library
Google News Archives - some content found by Google News Archive is free, but access to many articles requires a subscription or payment.