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Information Literacy: Developmental Psychology

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Agenda

• Using Cavalog

• Searching appropriate databases

• APA style

• Annotated bibliography

• Topic ideas

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Using Holy Spirit Library

CAVALOG• Browsing for topics:

– Connect to Cavalog

– Beneath the search box

– On the right sidebar, select “Call Number”

– Call number: BF, HV

• Searching for topics: – Select Words or Phrase

– Search: television violence and children

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Finding articles

Databases Link from the Library’s web page:

SUBJECT—Psychology– PsycARTICLES (full text)– PsycINFO (abstracts)– Academic Search Premier (full text)

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APA style

• See HSL web page: Style Guides link– Author(s) first names are abbreviated to initials.

– Date follows author and is in parentheses

– Journal/book titles are underlined

– Only use volume numbers

• Electronic articles are cited differently • Hint: Word 2007 has a citation/bibliography

creator

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Annotated bibliography

• Purpose– Introduction to scholarly/professional literature

• title, purpose, authors, publisher, bibliographies, no pictures, advertising

• reading level

– Workable topic for presentation– Introduction to APA style

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What is a bibliography?

• A list of works that have some relationship to each other– All the works by one author

– All the works published in a particular place

– Works on one particular subject

• Found at the end of an article, paper, in book form

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What makes up a bibliography?

• Citations or references• Books=

– Author or editor, title, publisher, place of publication, date

• Articles= – Author(s), title of article, title of journal,

volume, pages, date of publication• Arranged in a particular style or format

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Annotated bibliography help sheet

• Information Sheets link:– What is an annotated bibliography?– The first step is reading – What information should annotations contain?

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Sample bibliography

• Long term effects of child custody disputes*

• Which adhere to – APA guidelines – Scholarly Journals– Current Years

*Exercise available through the Course Guide.

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Annotated bibliography

• Questions– Verify the # of Articles, Entries– Is a summary page required? – Is a copy of the title page for each document

required? – Is a copy of the detailed display of each record

required?

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5 things to remember

• Scholarly journals

• Use 4-6 different journal titles

• Current 5 yrs

• APA Style

• Alphabetical Order

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Outline for annotated bibliography

• Pick a topic

• Search databases

• Locate articles

• Read

• Summarize

• Write bibliography in APA style

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Topic ideas

• Divorce & its effects• Eating disorders• FAS • Drug abuse and its effects • Child abuse and its

longitudinal effects• Violence and children,

adolescents, ethnic group• Depression and children • TV violence

• Any Psychological disorders from the DSM IV

• Adolescent pregnancy• Academic achievement

and sports, music, etc. • Death of a parent, spouse,

child• Post traumatic stress

disorder• Terminal disease

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