Your Research Assignment: Searching & Citing...May 05, 2016  · 1. Avoid plagiarism and its...

SN 405 family service planning

5 May 2016 7-9 p.m. Cherie Dale, & Stephanie Moroni, Professors

& Liz Dobson, Librarian

Your Research Assignment:

Searching & Citing

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Reminder…

Your Library Account

You need an active library account to use the library – and to access full text library resources from off-campus.

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What’s your assignment?

Write a paper on a topic relating to services to families with children with special needs, age 0-12 years

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What’s your assignment?

Find 5 scholarly articles, 2 websites and 2 books

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What’s your assignment?

Articles to be no older than 5-7 years (2010 to current)

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What’s your assignment?

Literature from Canada and USA preferred

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What’s your assignment?

Write in APA style

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What’s your assignment?

• Write a paper on a topic relating to children with special needs, age 0-12 years

• Find 5 scholarly articles, 2 website and 2 books

• Articles to be no older than 5-7 years (2009 to current)

• Literature from Canada and USA preferred

• Write in APA style

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LIBRARY SOURCES Centennial Libraries homepage http://library.centennialcollege.ca/

START YOUR RESEARCH

Search all Library Resources

& Check your Library

Account

INTERNET SOURCES

Google

INTERNET SOURCES

Google Scholar – for scholarly journal articles. (Do not use articles that you have to pay for)

LIBRARY HELP… Guides you likely want to use…

GUIDES:

APA Style

Articles Search

Assistance

ECE

DSW

LIBRARY HELP… APA Guide…

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APA Citation help in library E-Resources (databases)…

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APA Citation help in library E-Resources (databases)…

You need to know the APA rules to make slight adjustments, if needed.

APA Citation help Find help in Academic Search Premier database ( E-Resource) Click here to get to this database…

Click on link to Academic Search Premier database…

Question 5 in your handout: Find the APA Citation help for the journal article entitled: How to support families of children with disabilities? An exploratory study of social support services.

APA Citation help in Microsoft Word – go to “References” tab, create (Insert) Citations, then when

you have all you need, go to Bibliography

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APA Style How to cite your sources & format your written work

American Psychological Association

Provides rules and guidelines for citing your sources in-text and in your references list– and formatting (“stylistics”)

Your work normally includes 3 types of material…

1. Your ideas

2. Your summaries of others’ ideas and facts (“paraphrases”)

3. Quotations from your sources

(MLA Handbook, 2009)

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Why acknowledge your sources?

1. Avoid plagiarism and its penalties.

2. Add weight to your statements by citing authorities that support you views.

3. Enable your readers to pursue the topic further, &/or evaluate your use of others’ work.

Example of a paraphrase (See rule in APA Manual, p. 171)

In-text citation:

Marriage in the future will become less central to the lives of

adults (Nock, 2009, p. 302).

[Word doc]

According to APA, adding page number

is optional for paraphrases -

Centennial Libraries recommends

inclusion

Example of a simple quotation fewer than 40 words (See rule in APA Manual, p. 171)

In-text citation:

According to some, “marriage in the future will be less central

as a defining event in the life course of adults than it is in the

present” (Nock, 2009, p.302).

[Word doc]

Example of a simple quotation with fewer than 40 words

(See rule in APA Manual, p. 171)

This variation is also correct.

In-text citation:

Nock believes that “current trends indicate that marriage in the

future will be less central as a defining event in the life course

of adults that it is in the present” (2009, p.302).

[Word doc]

Example of quotation 40 or more words (See rule in APA Manual, p. 171)

Most research indicates that Americans see marriage as a positive value; for example:

The market generates distinctions based on marital status because those willing

to marry are viewed as more valuable. This has little to do with the law. Indeed, it

contradicts the law. Like the market, countless other social forces are involved in

creating distinctions among people that reflect their marital and parental statuses.

Those who wish to reduce inequalities associated with marital status should be

modest in their expectations about the impact of change on the institution of

American marriage. (Nock, 2009, p. 321)

[Word doc]

References (APA) Listed alphabetically at the end of your paper…

Each reference you cite in-text must appear in the References list, and each entry in the References list must be cited in-text. (APA Manual, p. 174)

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[Word doc]

Sample citation in APA style A journal article from a library database

In-text citation example:

(Manti, Scholte & Van Berckaelaer-Onnes, 2013, p. 69)

Reference example:

Manti, E., Scholte, E. M., & Van Berckelaer-Onnes, I. A. (2013).

Exploration of Teaching Strategies That Stimulate the Growth

of Academic Skills of Children with ASD in Special

Education School. European Journal Of Special Needs

Education, 28(1), 64-77. Retrieved from ERIC database.

APA format

enhances readability & makes a good impression!

FINDING READINGS…

Library & Internet sources

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LIBRARY SOURCES Search Everything discovery tool…

…for most library resources…

Search Everything discovery tool…

…results page, with options to Refine your search…

Record of a book in the library – held at Progress campus: Place a Hold if you want it delivered to another campus…

Search Everything :

Example of using limits…

Databases offer options to email, print, save, and cite…

SCHOLARLY ARTICLES

.What are they?

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Academic “Peer reviewed” journal articles

A committee of scholars must approve quality

before the editor publishes

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Academic “Peer reviewed” journal articles

Also called “refereed” or “scholarly”

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Academic “Peer reviewed” journal articles

All are fully documented – ideas and quotations from others are cited,

and a bibliography is provided

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Academic “Peer reviewed” journal articles

Most are write-ups of original research

(“primary sources”)

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Academic “Peer reviewed” journal articles

The library’s Search Everything engine and most library databases allow you to

limit your search results

to academic peer reviewed if you want

Easy!

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Academic “Peer reviewed” journal articles

• A committee of scholars must approve quality before the editor publishes

• Also called “refereed” or “scholarly”

• All are fully documented – ideas and quotations from others are cited, and a bibliography is provided

• Most are write-ups of original research (“primary sources”)

The Library Search Everything engine and

most databases allow you to limit to

academic peer reviewed if you want

Easy!

LIBRARY Databases provide Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journal limits…

Example of a scholarly (peer reviewed) journal article – Note: in-text citations

Note: References at end of article …

Primary source

• In the context of academic research or writing: designating an original document, source, or text rather than one of criticism, discussion, or summary.

-Oxford English Dictionary Online

• Examples?

Primary (“original”) sources

Some examples:

• Scholarly (peer reviewed) journal articles that are write-ups of original research done (e.g. surveys, experiments, analysis of newspaper articles, coding of observed behaviour)

• Statistics or other data collected using accepted research methods (e.g. surveys, questionnaires, etc.)

• Other original documents or accounts: interviews with individuals who have direct first-hand experiences diaries, photographs, some newspaper articles, etc.

Secondary (“not original”) sources

Some examples:

• Works of criticism

• Literature reviews of work done by others

• Summaries of others’ work

• Opinion pieces

• Discussion lacking research support

Why talk about this distinction between primary & secondary sources?

• Researchers say

it is important! to

know the difference between primary & secondary sources.

• Do you agree or disagree?

Child and youth victims (0 to 17 years) of police-reported sexual offences committed by family members, by sex and age, Canada, 2009 (Source: http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/85-224-x/2010000/ct007-eng.htm)

YOUR RESEARCH

Planning

Example for planning your research

Usually you start with a general idea – a broad subject area that interests you…kind of “fuzzy” to start

Example:

children with special needs

LIBRARY Search Everything Advanced Lay down your strategy here…space for your terms and more tools – e.g. field limits

LIBRARY Search Everything Advanced …content type , full text, and scholarly limit tools here applied

LIBRARY DATABASES (E-RESOURCES)

Searching directly in…

With your search strategy in hand you can also go directly into the Library’s E-Resources & E-Books / Journals (Full Text) (databases)

Centennial Libraries’ E-Resources page

Approximately 150 library databases • Listings by Subject, Type, Title…

E-Resources by Subject library web page…

Social Sciences group…

Go

LIBRARY E-RESOURCES (‘DATABASES’)…

Child Studies group…

Lay down your search strategy, using as many of your terms as you wish… Play with the limit and expand tools…

See limits for full text, scholarly (peer reviewed) journals, and publication date…

Precision tools you can use when

direct database searching

• Limit tools:

– Full Text limit

– Scholarly (Peer Review) limit

– Using more concepts (each in a different row, using the AND operator)

– Field limits

– More limits (publication date, etc.)

• Expand tools:

– Multiple database searching

– Using terms provided in database thesauri

– Add more terms of similar meaning, using OR to connect them (in the same row)

• Managing results:

– How to print, email, save, & use database citation help

• Browsing tip:

– Page options for efficient browsing

A search that limits the terms in the top row to the title of the publications in the database…

Search Results page (22 items here) – brief view…

Use the “Page Options” feature when you want to browse your results. “Detailed” view will add the abstract to each record…

Results page with Detailed view…

LIBRARY DATABASES Options to print, save, email and cite

EXPAND TOOLS: Choose databases Allows you to search more than one database at a time within the same vendor group

Choose databases…

Once you have added more databases to your search, reset your limits…

Results from searching six databases all at once: 106 records (rather than 22 when searching only one database)

EXPAND TOOLS: Thesaurus (aka Subject Terms or Subjects) Provides suggestions for additional search terms…

Example of searching the thesaurus in Academic Search Premier database…

Suggestions in thesaurus for additional search terms for “disabilities”…

An “endless tree” of broader terms, narrower terms, and related terms…

What we covered tonight:

direct database searching

• Limit tools:

– Full Text limit

– Scholarly (Peer Review) limit

– Using more concepts (each in a different row, using the AND operator)

– Field limits

– More limits (publication date, etc.)

• Expand tools:

– Multiple database searching

– Using terms provided in database thesauri

– Add more terms of similar meaning, using OR to connect them (in the same row)

• Managing results:

– How to print, email, save, & use database citation help

• Browsing tip:

– Page options for efficient browsing

LIBRARY OR INTERNET?

Which to use??

Library databases & the Internet– what’s the difference…?

Library databases Internet

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Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol

Library databases (E-resources)

• More academic

• You can use precision tools for searching - & often save time!

• Good for complex topics

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Internet

• Quality varies widely; inherent commercial bias

• You rely more on the search engine to determine search results

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Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol

Your reports…

You will need reliable information

Learn the strengths and weaknesses of Library & Internet

sources – and use them both appropriately

INTERNET

Google Basic & Google Advanced Search

Google Scholar & Google Advanced Scholar

Google Images & Google Advanced Image Search

GOOGLE SCHOLAR

Journal articles on the Internet..

INTERNET Google Scholar

Basic search page

Click on arrow to get to Advanced Search page

INTERNET

Google Scholar Advanced ..some tools for precision searching

INTERNET

Google Scholar Advanced ..a sample search

INTERNET Google Scholar Advanced Search results: c65 records

askON

Chat with library staff on your desktop or laptop

Live Chat

How to Identify Reliable Websites?

Commercial website Government website

RESEARCH -> Search the Internet -> How to Evaluate Websites