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- 1. Gale Opposing Viewpoints database offers divergent points of view on controversial social, political, and economic issues. Let’s get started! Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context
- 2. Gale Opposing Viewpoints in Context • Find pro/con sources on controversial topics • Explore issues from a variety of perspectives
- 3. Logging In On Campus
- 4. Select from the databases Gale Opposing Viewpoints in Context Choose Access Rio to Login Off campus Choose Library tab from menu Logging In Off Campus
- 5. • Organization of Opposing Viewpoints Main Page • Topics in Eight Category Areas • Alphabetical List of Topic Categories
- 6. Opposing Viewpoints Main Page Issues Featured News and Video Navigation Buttons
- 7. Issues Eight Issues Areas include: Business Health Debate Topics Society Energy and Environmentalism Law Science, and War Issues Links Issues are broad topic areas, following by a few specific issues
- 8. Browse Issues is another way to access Issues All Issues are in alphabetical order Alphabetical List of Issues
- 9. Gale Opposing Viewpoints contains divergent points of view on controversial social, political, and economic issues. Quick Quiz!
- 10. The Main Page contains links to eight different issues areas
- 11. • Choosing Topic Categories • Topic Overview Pages • Available Sources in Gale Opposing Viewpoints
- 12. Choose from eight broad topic areas Choose Topic Categories from main page
- 14. Topic Overview Page Topic Overview Available Sources Sources
- 15. On this Page -- source types Source Links Several sources available in Gale Opposing Viewpoints
- 16. Source Links Source types include: • Viewpoints • Journals • Reference • Media/video
- 17. Some of the sources Source Types Scroll down the Topic Overview page to see source types
- 18. • Viewpoints and Featured Viewpoints • Emailing Articles
- 19. So what is a Viewpoints essay? • Viewpoints essays are written or compiled by the staff at Gale • They may be reprints of articles or reports • Provide opposing viewpoints on controversial topics Featured Viewpoints are chosen by the editors Two Types of Viewpoints Essays
- 20. • Gale provides the Viewpoints to give a balanced perspective to controversial topics • Viewpoints essays argue about a topic from a clear standpoint or side of the issue.
- 21. • Usually you'll find two viewpoints which discuss the same issue, but arguing from two different points of view. • You can use one Viewpoint essay to provide support for one side of the argument
- 22. • Use a counterpoint Viewpoint essay for ideas on opposing arguments. • Use a counterpoint Viewpoint essay for ideas on opposing arguments.
- 23. Viewpoints I’ll choose a Featured Viewpoints
- 25. Viewpoint Essay
- 27. Email Article
- 30. Gale Opposing Viewpoints includes a variety of sources, including Viewpoints, Reference sources, Journals and Media
- 31. Viewpoints essays argue about a topic from a clear standpoint or side of the issue.
- 32. Featured Viewpoints are chosen by the editors to represent the topic
- 33. I can email article to myself from the database
- 34. Questions?
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- Gale Opposing viewpoints offers divergent points of view on controversial topics. Social, political and economic issues as we see here.
- The GOV portal features browsable issues, as well as sources to explore current issues from a variety of perspectives
- If on campus, you can access on the database link
- To get to Gale Opposing Viewpoints, you can log in through AccessRio or through the Library website if on campus
- We will take a look at the Opposing viewpoints main page, an alphabetical listing of issues, and the eight issues areas of opposing viewpoints
- The main portal page links to issues, news and video The navigation buttons are at the top which will take you to issues as well as help resources
- There are 3 issues areas. These include business, health, debate topics, society, energy /environmentalism, law science ware ------ each issue is a heading followed by a few specific issues
- An alphabetical listing of issues is reached through Browse Issues at the top. Click the Browse Issues button and this will take you to a listing of all issues
- We take a look at choosing an issue. We look at the layout of the topic overview pages, and source types in opposing viewpoints
- So what we’ll do is start out by choosing an issue or one of the associated issues. I am going to choose emergy and environmentalism for this example Clicking on View all will then take me to a complete listing
- Of issues. I will choose Global warming as the issue I want to explore
- This brings me to a Topic Overview page. The topic overview page gives you a topic overview, we see at the top under the topic. Sources are underneath on the left. You will notice source links to the right in a box. Let’s look a bit at what types of sources Gale Opposing viewpoints offers
- There are several different types of sources available in the database. See the list to the right. Here there are 12 source types listed for this issue.
- Some of the source types here
- We will take a look at viewpoints more in depth and how this is unique to gale opposing viewpoints
- What is a viewpoint essay? Viewpoints essays are written or compiled by staff at Gale. Sometimes they are reprints. They provide opposing viewpoints on controversial topics.
- Let’s look at what are called featured viewpoints. Viewpoints are at the top of the source links. Featured Viewpoints are distinguished from viewpoints in that they are specifically chosen by the editors as representative sources for this topic. Here, we’ll choose one of the featured viewpoints. By clicking on this, this will take me into the specific viewpoints
- The Featured Viewpoint page. We see the title at the top. The author’s name is underneath. The authors are experts or authorities on the topic discussed. On the right there is a table of contents that will take you through different parts of the document.
- So we can save this source through downloading, and also emailing and printing, as well see in the links under Tools. I will show you how to email a source. This is a quick way to save articles and sources you want to use for your paper.
- I click on email. When this is clicked a form appears where you will in your email address.