2. What Do You Do When…
• You are have a research paper assignment on
melanoma and you have no idea where to
begin?
• Your instructor wants you to find peer-
reviewed articles?
• You aren’t sure how to use your research?
• You need to create a “works cited” page for
your research paper?
7. Main Ideas, Key Words, Search Terms
• Main Idea 1: Melanoma = Skin Cancer
• Main Idea 2: Tanning
• Broader Focus (Big Idea) – Not enough info!
– Less specific: cancer
• Narrower Focus (Detail) – Too much info!
– Specific kinds of tanning: tanning beds, indoor
tanning
– Specific types of cancer: actinic keratosis, basal
cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma
8. Another Way to Think of Broadening
and Narrowing Focus
Cancer
Melanoma
Basal Cell
Carcinoma
15. Why Use Quotations & Citations?
• SHOW where your information came from.
• IMPRESS your instructor with your mad
research skillz.
• RESPECT the original author or creator of the
data or research you are building off of.
• ABIDE by our LLTC Academic Integrity policy
and don’t get kicked out of college.
• It’s the right thing to do.
16. What Does It Look Like IRL?
• Direct Quotations (using someone else’s exact
words)
– Two dermatology doctors from Henry Ford
Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, determined: “Indoor
tanning represents an avoidable risk factor for
skin cancer, and education of the general public
as well as the enactment and stricter
enforcement of indoor tanning legislation are a
public health imperative.” (Woo 61)
21. Got Style?
• Types of Formatting Not that kind of style!
– MLA (Arts &
Humanities, like
Anishinaabe Studies and
English)
– APA (Social Sciences)
– CSE/CBE (Hard Sciences)
– Ask your instructor
what they want!
23. Entry on a MLA “Works Cited” Page
Woo, Denise K., and Melody J. Eide. “Tanning
Beds, Skin Cancer, and Vitamin D: An
Examination of the Scientific Evidence and
Public Health Implications.” Dermatologic
Therapy 23 (2010): 61-71. Electronic.
Accessed through EBSCO Host.
27. Professional Inspiration and Credit
• http://ch-ch-
chchanginglibrarian.blogspot.com/search/label/Jersey%20Shore
• http://crln.acrl.org/content/72/2/78.full
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KATHRYN YELINEK!