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Course research guide
ENGL 1301: Careers, Ads, & Countries
Garry Partridge

This guide provides titles of and links to library resources that can help you with your Essay 2 (careers), Essay 4 (advertisements), & Essay 5 (country policies, practice, etc.). See: Search Sheet (Word doc)

Have fun with your search, and let me know if you have questions or need help at any time!

I. Define Topic II. Devise Strategy III. Search: Reference, Books, Articles, Web IV. Evaluate & Cite

I. Define Topic - reference sources in section III. below can help you with this part!

What topic are you researching?

List what you know about your topic -- who, what, when, where, why, and how:

What would you like to find out about your topic? What questions do you have? What are your learning issues?

 

II. Devise Strategy - create a flexible search plan, list key words/names

If you're researching a particular topic, such as "advertising effectiveness" (essay 4) or "voter turnout" (essay 5 sample topic), then you need to list as many synonyms and related key words as possible. Use the list of words to create multiple combinations with the word AND in order to have a successful search:

  • advertising and effect
  • advertisements and consumers and effect
  • marketing and consumers
  • marketing and psychology
  • advert* and consumers and emotional
  • voter turnout and united states
  • voting and australia
  • vote* and turnout and australia
  • compulsory voting and australia
  • voter registration and u.s.

advertising
and
 consumer*
and
 psycholog*
or
  
or
  
or
marketing
and
 children
and
 peer pressure
or
  
or
  
or
ads
and
 women
and
 emotion*

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

TIPS:

 

I. Define Topic II. Devise Strategy III. Search: Reference, Books, Articles, Web IV. Evaluate & Cite

III. Search Sources - these will be helpful for Essay 4 & 5

A. REFERENCE sources - Looking for ideas, background information, or facts?

Sources labeled Ref are in print and available at the SAC Library, 2nd floor reference room. You can also check your local library catalog to see if they own a copy. Online databases require a login from off-campus.You can get login info HERE.

Location & Call No. Reference Source Title
Ref HF5803 .A38 2003 The Advertising Age Encyclopedia of Advertising (3 v.)
Ref AE5 .W563 2002 World Book Encyclopedia of People and Places (6 v.)
Ref G63 .W67 2001 Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations (6 v.)
Ref JN1 .E85 Europa World Year Book (2 v.)
Ref BL65 .V55 D47 2004 Destructive Power of Religion : violence in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (4 v.)
Ref BL2525 .D58 2003 Encyclopedia of American Religion and Politics
Ref E183.7 .E52 2002 Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy (3 v.)
Ref GE149 .E47 2002 Encyclopedia of Global Change : environmental change and human society
Ref DS777.6 .C458 2005 China Today : an encyclopedia of life in the People's Republic (2 v.)
Ref HD8066 .W637 2003 Work in America: an encyclopedia of history, policy, and society (2 v.)
Ref HV5825 .D7884 2000 Drugs and Drug Policy in America : a documentary history
Ref HV6431 .K883 2003 Encyclopedia of Terrorism
Ref HM886 .E53 1999 Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, and Conflict (3 v.)
Ref JA61 .O95 2001 Oxford Companion to Politics of the World
Ref JC571 .L523 2001 Human Rights Encyclopedia (3 v.)
Ref JK9 .E526 2004 Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy
Ref JK2249 .G767 2003 Political Corruption in America: an encyclopedia of scandals, power, and greed
Ref JZ1242 .W67 2002 World at Risk: a global issues sourcebook
Ref QH332 .E52 2004 Encyclopedia of Bioethics (5 v.)
Ref RA395 .A3 R685 2003 Health Care Policy and Politics A to Z
Ref LB15 .W87 2002 World Education Encyclopedia : a survey of educational systems worldwide (3 v.)

Online databases Screen captures - clickable!
CQ Researcher CQ
Opposing Viewpoints OppView
Facts.com Facts.com
History Resource Center (U.S. or World) HRC
Science Resource Center SRC
Gale Virtual Reference Library GVRL

I. Define Topic II. Devise Strategy III. Search: Reference, Books, Articles, Web IV. Evaluate & Cite

B. BOOKS, VIDEOS, other items - Looking for in-depth information?

A few Subject headings (just copy & paste into box!) you can use to search By Subject:

  • Advertising
  • Advertising -- Psychological aspects
  • Marketing -- Social aspects
  • Marketing -- Psychological aspects
  • Brand name products
  • Brand loyalty
  • Marketing research
  • Materialism
  • Consumers -- Attitudes
  • Consumer behavior
  • Women consumers
  • Child consumers
  • Teenage Consumers
  • Older Consumers
  • Consumption
  • Alcoholic beverages -- Marketing

eBook

I. Define Topic II. Devise Strategy III. Search: Reference, Books, Articles, Web IV. Evaluate & Cite

C. ARTICLES - Looking for current information or need to highlight a specific issue?

Online databases require a login from off-campus.You can get login info HERE.


NOTE: If the full-text of the article isn't available online use the Journal Locator. Just type in the periodical title to see if SAC Library owns a paper copy or if another database offers full-text.

ASP

InfoTrac

Newsbank

I. Define Topic II. Devise Strategy III. Search: Reference, Books, Articles, Web IV. Evaluate & Cite

D. FREE WEB SITES


IV. Evaluate and Cite your sources

Research Process


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