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“Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you make, but about the stories you tell.” – Seth Godin
When: Wed., May 15th, 8:30-11:30am
Where: MAC 215 (beautiful conference room in the MAC)
What to bring: Your beverage of choice and a snack to share
How to prepare:
--Christine, Denise and Laura
Welcome! Click on a tab below to find books, articles, and websites for use in this course.
You'll need a College of DuPage Library card in order to use most of these resources from off campus.
Questions? Feel free to contact me, stop by the Reference Desk, or contact us by email or chat Want to know more about the COD library? Check out our orientation video.
Start by examining your assignment on Professor Carter's site.
Next, you'll want to examine the statistics on the IEA website. Pick "Energy Supply" for World and take a look at the chart that appears. Next, pick a country somewhere else in the world by typing that into the search box. Compare the statistics you find for your individual country with those from the rest of the world. Next, take a look at how your country's statistics have changed over time. What stands out about the data you're looking at?
Next, start to gather some context. A couple of options you can use to do so are:
In order to find 3 longer articles, you should find good results in the following databases:
Academic Search Complete has a mixture of popular and scholarly articles on a variety of subjects. You'll want to be sure that you're using a source appropriate for class when searching. Make sure that you've picked a length of greater than 3 pages, and limit to full text.
Proquest National Newspapers Core has the full text of a number of major newspapers. There is no page limit in this search, so use your best judgement.
See the full list of science databases.
While you're gathering articles to either narrow your topic or in order to dig up more information on certain subject, you want to be careful to decide if the information you find is trustworthy.
When it comes to science, nearly everyone has opinions: should we be labeling genetically modified food for consumer's awareness? What will fracking do for our economy or our groundwater supply? Your job is to evaluate the information you find, whether you find it through Google or through a library database.
Authorship: Who wrote this article? What is their background on the topic? Are they trustworthy?
Bias: Who published the article? What kind of articles does the magazine normally publish? Does that limit the facts they present or how the facts are presented? Is there an editorial board?
Date: How old is the information that is presented? Is it still accurate?
Questions? Check out the COD Library's guide to evaluating information.
Need an extra copy of the library worksheet? You can find it here.
Find directions about how to cite your sources on the library citation guide.
Both Academic Search Complete and Newspaper Source will have a Cite link that you can also click to get article citations. The library citation guide (above) will give examples for how to cite the data that you use from IEA.
Finally, you are welcome to use NoodleTools if you'd like to use a program to create and organize your citations. You must "Create a New Folder" when you use NoodleBIB for the first time. Click on "I am citing a(n):," choose the type of item you are citing, and then fill in the online form. Your bibliography will be formatted for you.
Within this resource you can search AICPA and FASB materials as well as many editorial resources that assist in defining and interpreting the standards. Particularly useful are Checkpoint's features that allow you to print out, cite, and contextualize its material. Formerly known as RIA Checkpoint.
Our academic license currently offers us:
RIA Federal Tax Coordinator Library (35 simultaneous users allowed)
PPC- Academic Advantage Core Accounting and Financial Statement Library (35 simultaneous users allowed)
AICPA for Academic Market (10 simultaneous users allowed)
FASB Accounting Standards Codification (20 simultaneous users allowed)
GASB Academic Market (2 simultaneous users allowed)
This database is available to students, faculty and staff with a COD Library card.
Baldwin, James. 1993. The Fire Next Time. New York: Vintage International.
Baraka, Amiri. 2000. The Fiction of Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka. Chicago, Ill.: Lawrence Hill Books.
Berger, Edward. 2014. Softly, with Feeling: Joe Wilder and the Breaking of Barriers in American Music. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.
Burroughs, Margaret Taylor. 1992. What Shall I Tell My Children Who Are Black? Chicago, Ill.: Cultural Fund.
Giovanni, Nikki. 1994. Racism 101. New York: W. Morrow.
Giovanni, Nikki, and George Ford. 1993. Ego-Tripping and Other Poems for Young People. 2nd ed. Chicago: L. Hill Books.
Hayes, Terrance. 2018.American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin. New York, New York: Penguin Books.
Jones, Quincy. 2002. Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones. New York, NY: Broadway Books.
Obama, Michelle. 2018. Becoming. New York: Crown Publishing Group.
Rodgers, Nile. 2011. Le Freak: An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco, and Destiny. New York: Spiegel & Grau.
Williams, Saul. 2006. The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop and Connected Writings. New York: MTV Books/Pocket Books.
Dunning, S., & Thumann, A. (2013). Efficient lighting applications and case studies. Lilburn, Georgia: Fairmont Press. (2013). Ebook
Gordon, G. (2003). Interior lighting for designers.. Hoboken: NJ. Wiley. Ebook
Grimley, C., & Love, M. (2013). The interior design reference + specification book. Beverly, Mass.: Rockport. (2013). Ebook
Karlen, M., Spangler, C., & Benya, J. (2017). Lighting design basics (Third ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. New Books TH7703 .K27 2017
Illuminating Engineering Society of North America. (2011). The lighting handbook : Reference and applications. (10th ed.) (D. DiLaura, Ed.). New York, NY: IESNA. On Reserve for ID 2312
If you are taking this tutorial for any other reason, please go to: https://www.codlrc.org/plagiarism/posttest
Welcome! You'll need a College of DuPage Library card in order to use most of the resources below from off campus. If your card is not working, it may need to be reactivated.
Questions? Feel free to use my contact info to the right, stop by the Reference Desk, or contact us by email or chat.
Want to know more about Energy Usage, Transportation, Sustainability, or other topics related to biology? You'll want to start with a reference resource, which will provide you with a summary of a current topic, as well as
Once you've gotten background knowledge on your topic, you'll want to look at library databases to discover both popular and scholarly articles on your topic. Here are the top two databases to look for information.
Academic Search Complete has a mixture of popular and scholarly articles on a variety of subjects. You'll want to be sure that you're using a source appropriate for class when searching. Confused about the difference between popular and scholarly articles? Learn more about them here.
Science Direct is a scholarly article database that provides full-text access to scholarly articles on a variety of scientific topics. A bit confused about how to read the articles you're finding there? Check out How to Read Research Articles.
Not finding what you need? You can check the full list of biology databases.
There are websites that can provide a variety of insights into your class topics. Some of the best options are:
For topics like Energy and Sustainability, in particular, there are helpful websites that might provide data or help shape your thinking on this topic. Check out the following:
The Earth Charter initiative, which will give you some guidelines to thinking about sustainability.
Following the Earth Charter Initiative, think about changes the county might be able to make to become more sustainable. Want to investigate some data? The following sources provide some clues that might direct your thoughts:
US Department of Energy: SLED (Stats and Local Energy Data)
This site provides detailed information about energy usage, talks about buildings and efficiencies, renewable power, transportation, etc. You can look up a few cities in DuPage County by zipcode and see what recommendations the Department of Energy might have for the county.
Google Maps will show you a good physical layout of the county, from greenspace to public transportation options to whatever else you might be able to imagine.
Data USA will provide county-level data about demographics such as income, housing, and health. This database draws upon census data and was constructed by MIT.
The Chicago Metropolitan Area for Planning has a lot of good county-level data that you can use to help your county sustainability plan.
If you search for websites on your own, you'll want to remember: when it comes to science, nearly everyone has opinions: should we be labeling genetically modified food for consumer's awareness? What will fracking do for our economy or our groundwater supply? Your job is to evaluate the information you can find through Google to find the good websites--those written by authors you can trust, with good and up-to-date information.
Authorship: Who created this website? What is their background on the topic? Are they trustworthy?
Bias: Why was the website created? What point of view does the author have? Does that limit the facts they present or how the facts are presented?
Date: How old is the information that is presented? Is it still accurate?
Questions? Check out the COD Library's guide to evaluating information.
Find directions about how to cite your sources on the library citation guide.
Most databases will have a Cite link that you can also click to get article citations.
Finally, you are welcome to use NoodleBib if you'd like to use a program to create and organize your citations. You must "Create a New Folder" when you use NoodleBIB for the first time. Click on "I am citing a(n):," choose the type of item you are citing, and then fill in the online form. Your bibliography will be formatted for you.
Further questions about APA style? Check out the APA Style Blog, which includes sample papers.
Angelou, Maya. “Woman Work” and “Human Family.” The Complete Poetry. Random House, 2015.
Baldwin, James. The Fire Next Time. Vintage, 2013.
Carmichael, Stokely. Black Power: Notes and Comment. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee,
1966.
Clement, Ben. Giants on My Shoulders. Strategic Book Publishing, 2009.
Coates, Ta-Nehisi. We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy. Ballantine, 2017.
Douglass, Frederick. A Life in Documents. University of Virginia Press, 2013.
Dyson, Michael Eric. Why I Love Black Women. Basic Civitas Books, 2003.
Earley, Jackie. “1,968 Winters.” Voltage Poetry.
Ellison, Ralph. "What America Would Be Like without Blacks." Going to the Territory, 1970.
Hartfield, Claire. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riots of 1919. Clarion Books, 2018.
Hayden, Robert. “Those Winter Sundays” and “Frederick Douglass.” Collected Poems. Liveright, 2015.
Hughes, Langston. “Harlem” and “Dreams.” The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes. Vintage, 1994.
King Jr, Martin Luther. "The World House." Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community. Harper
& Row, 1967.
Lewis, John. Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement. Mariner Books, 1999.
Obama, Barack. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance. Three Rivers Press, 2004.
Smith, Mychal Denzel. Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education.
Nation Books, 2016.
Smith, Tracy K. Life on Mars: Poems. Macmillan, 2011.
Thomas, Latham. Own Your Glow: a Soulful Guide to Luminous Living and Crowning the Queen Within.
Hay House, 2017.
Trethewey, Natasha. "Elegy for the Native Guards." Southern Cultures, vol. 19, no. 3, 2013, p. 119.
Walker, Margaret. "We Have Been Believers." Poetry, vol. 53, no. 6, 1939, pp. 302-303.
Welcome! Click on a tab below to find books, articles, and websites for use in this course.
You'll need a College of DuPage Library card in order to use most of the resources below from off campus.
Questions? Feel free to contact me, stop by the Reference Desk, or contact us by email or chat.
One of the best places to look for information about your scientist is in the following sources:
First, do a search of Credo, an online database full of dictionary and encyclopedia entries.
Now, start looking for more information in the following books:
If your person was famous, you might check US Major Dailies to see if there is an obituary.
Check out the books on reserve for this project. You can also try a general search in the catalog to see if any books or entries exist. You are also welcome to use I-Share to request books from across the state for free. Some of you may find a hidden gem that will be a wonderful resource for your project.
Many of you will be able to find images of your chemist on ImageQuest. You are also welcome to use any images you may find in Credo. You are also welcome to scan any images of your scientist that you may find in a book.
If that doesn't turn up anything, try looking at a Google Image search. Some of your scientists may even exist on YouTube-- see if you can find interviews or tributes that you can play clips of.
Wikipedia is slowly becoming a reliable place to find molecular structures, CAS #s, and other chemical information. It's worth checking for an article about your topic, and then comparing the information you find to other sources.
Not finding any or enough info in Wikipedia? Head to SciFinder and use the Substance Identifier to get the chemical structure of the molecule and other properties. (Don't have a SciFinder account? If so, learn how to register for one here.)
Finally, not finding info online? Depending on what type of molecule you're researching, check the following books for either polymer information or biological molecule information.
Credo and Gale are also good places to look for more information on your biological molecules.
Many of the sources above will have information about recycling/disposal and production of your molecules. Make note of any extra information you'll want to include in your presentation. Gale and Credo are again good sources for this information, as is Knovel.
Still looking for information? Try googling your molecule and EPA or and health to see what you find. Be sure to evaluate the website that you're looking at to make sure that it is one you should trust.
You can find simple APA citation information on our library citation guide. You will also want to number your sources as they appeared in your presentation.
If you are nervous about creating citations, you're also welcome to check out NoodleTools, a program which creates and organizes citations. You'll want to create an individual account to use the program, and you must "Create a New Folder" when you use NoodleTools for the first time. Click on "I am citing a(n):," choose the type of item you are citing, and then fill in the online form. Your bibliography will be formatted for you.
Number each source on your work cited slide. Now, add numerical citations to each slide where one of your works cited is referenced.
For example:
Rachel Fuller Brown and Elizabeth Lee Hazen..... and synthesized nystatin (5).
Your audience would then know that the facts came from source #5 in your citation list.
You can see an example (short!) powerpoint presentation with citations here.
