3. Let’s talk about cookies
What’s in your cookies?
What’s in your term paper???
4.
5. Your task: in groups of 3
1. Find one information source that
you would use for a paper on
George Bush’s “axis of evil” speech.
2. Share what you found with the
class
9. 9
How do the messages of these sources differ?
Which is appropriate for your assignment?
10. Choosing your ingredients
Information Type Description
Books (scholarly monographs) Broad, thorough, academic treatment of a
subject.
Academic book chapters Examination of a specific topic. Similar to
journal articles.
Scholarly journal articles Detailed scholarly examination of a topic. Peer-
reviewed.
News & trade magazines Popular or non-scholarly treatment of a subject.
Government documents Official documents published by government
agencies.
16. Researchers Articles
Journals
Other documents Databases
17. Databases:
What’s the difference???
Each database provider chooses different journals,
books, etc. to include in their index.
Some are specialized directories (e.g., only legal
journals), while some are broad (e.g., social sciences in
general, with a few journals from each discipline).
You will find that some of the databases overlap, but
they all have some unique content.
36. How to find…
Malloy, Jonathan. “Bush/Harper? Canadian
American Evangelical Politics Compared.”
American Review of Canadian Studies
34, no. 4 (2009): 352-363.
38. How to find…
Malloy, Jonathan. “Bush/Harper? Canadian
American Evangelical Politics Compared.”
American Review of Canadian Studies
34, no. 4 (2009): 352-363.
Look for the title of the
journal in the catalogue
41. Academic integrity at McGill
“McGill University values academic integrity.
Therefore all students must understand the
meaning and consequences of cheating,
plagiarism and other academic offences
under the Code of Student Conduct and
Disciplinary Procedures.”
47. Tips for paraphrasing
1. Start early!
2. Take notes as you read. Put the original aside
when you write
3. Check the original again for accuracy
4. Quote unique phrases and terminology
5. Record your sources
48. Original passage
Students frequently overuse direct quotation in
taking notes, and as a result they overuse
quotations in the final [research] paper. Probably
only about 10% of your final manuscript should
appear as directly quoted matter. Therefore, you
should strive to limit the amount of exact
transcribing of source materials while taking
notes. Lester, James D. Writing Research Papers.
2nd ed. (1976): 46-47.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/619/01/
49. Paraphrase example
In research papers students often quote
excessively, failing to keep quoted material down
to a desirable level. Since the problem usually
originates during note taking, it is essential to
minimize the material recorded verbatim (Lester
46-47).
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/619/01/
50. Plagiarism example
Students often use too many direct quotations
when they take notes, resulting in too many of
them in the final research paper. In fact, probably
only about 10% of the final copy should consist
of directly quoted material. So it is important to
limit the amount of source material copied while
taking notes.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/619/01/
57. What are your questions?
Megan Fitzgibbons
Liaison Librarian
megan.fitzgibbons@mcgill.ca
514-398-4696
58. Image Credits
Slide 1: Juggling by timailius http://www.flickr.com/photos/9914541@N05/2832728718/. License: Attribution-
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Slide 7: Information timeline. Created by Anna Stewart, Librarian, St. Edward’s University. Retrieved September
21, 2009 from: http://libr.stedwards.edu/about_library/depts/instruction/instr_class_docs.htm. Used with
permission.
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Slide 50: Thief by desiretofire : music is the shape of silence http://www.flickr.com/photos/desiretofire/151851052
Slide 52: Citation flowchart: Gaunt, Jessica, Nigel Morgan, Rowland Somers, Rosemary Soper, and Erica Swain.
Handbook for Information Literacy Teaching. Cardiff, Wales: Cardiff University, 2007.
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/insrv/educationandtraining/infolit/hilt/index.html (accessed May 14, 2008).
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