For New Students

August/September 2008 Orientation 1

Research tips & tricks

What can the library do for you?

Connecting people with information…this is where the library lives

Hot topics

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•Critical thinking

•Media literacy

•Information fluency

•Open access

•Copyright

•Semantic web

Where do you start your research?

So why can’t I just use ?

Need help?

Ask a Librarian!

Plagiarism = stealing

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Who said it?

• Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was marked by a "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (263).

• Wordsworth extensively explored the role of emotion in the creative process (263).

MLA bibliography

What are the parts?

• Author• Title• City• Publisher• Year

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Leroux, Marcel. Global Warming:

Myth Or Reality?: The Erring Ways of

Climatology. New York: Springer,

2005.

MLA guides

• McGill library website

• Online Writing Lab http://owl.english.purdue.edu

Why does it matter?

To take away

• Go beyond Google• The library can help!– High quality materials– Librarians

• Evaluate your information• Cite your sources

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What are your questions?

Thanks for listening!