WSDB 291

library research workshop

  • Getting help in the library
     
  • Your term paper requirements:
    -properly formatted bibliography
    - appropriate sources

     
  • using databases
    -search strategies & keywords
    -using Zotero
     
  • Finding stuff

 TODAY

getting help

susie.breier@concordia.ca

AskUs desk:  Mon: 4-5, Tues 12-2, Fri 1-2

Tuesdays: Hall building 11th floor, H-1132: 3-5 pm

Course Requirements: TERM PAPER

The tentative topic of the paper, a brief description, and a bibliography are to be submitted....

 

Course Requirements: TERM PAPER

  • Term papers should follow customary scholarly format (MLA or APA), and must contain a title, subtitle and bibliography
     
  • Footnotes, endnotes, or in-text parenthetical references must be included to carefully acknowledge your sources

Bibliography  Tips

1 - follow your professor's instructions

2 - pick your style: APA  or MLA 

3 - find a style guide and follow it, along with your prof's instructions

4 -If  you have more questions, try our Tutorial or Ask Us!

Course Requirements: TERM PAPER

 

Information from Internet sources should be

used with selectivity.

 

TUTORIAL:
Academic/Peer reviewed References

JUST FOR YOU

JUST FOR YOU

SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS

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DISCOVERY SEARCH:

huge all in one search

(EBSCO) ARTICLE DATABASES:

 search more strategically

 

ACCESSING STUFF: Resources & Services

What is this:

van der Meulen , Emily, Elya M. Durisin, Victoria Love. 2013. Selling Sex: Experience, Advocacy, and Research on Sex Work in Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press

...and what should you look up? and where?

van der Meulen , Emily, Elya M. Durisin, Victoria Love. 2013. Selling Sex: Experience, Advocacy, and Research on Sex Work in Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press

this is a BOOK

look up the title: Selling Sex: Experience, Advocacy, and Research on Sex Work in Canada

in our Library Catalogue:

What is this:

Hall, K. Q. (2015). New Conversations in Feminist Disability Studies: Feminism, Philosophy, and Borders. Hypatia, 30(1), 1-12.

...and what should you look up? and where?

Hall, K. Q. (2015). New Conversations in Feminist Disability Studies: Feminism, Philosophy, and Borders. Hypatia, 30(1), 1-12.

this is a JOURNAL ARTICLE

look up the article title: New Conversations in Feminist Disability Studies: Feminism, Philosophy, and Borders

in our Discovery Search:

look up the journal title:

Hypatia

in our Library Catalogue:

OR

What is this:

Queen, Carol. "Sex Radical Politics, Sex-Positive Feminist Thought, and Whore Stigma," Whores and Other Feminists, ed. Jill Nagle. New York: Routledge, 1997. 125-135.

...and what should you look up? and where?

Queen, Carol. "Sex Radical Politics, Sex-Positive Feminist Thought, and Whore Stigma," Whores and Other Feminists, ed. Jill Nagle. New York: Routledge, 1997. 125-135.

this is a CHAPTER  in a BOOK

look up the  BOOK title:
Whores and Other Feminists

in our Library Catalogue:

3 references: academic/peer reviewed  TEST YOURSELF

which one  is academic or peer-reviewed?

Stuff we discussed and more

Find out what we own:  Library Catalogue

Find articles for your paper: WSDB 291 guide

Try to find it all at once: Discovery Search 

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