Expository Writing - Detection

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Expository Writing Sample Topic:In search of Amelia Earhart

IV. Searching for a book in the catalog from the Minuteman Library Network http://library.minlib.net/search~S15

To conduct a subject or keyword search, enter a phrase in the search box and selectsubject or keyword and Framingham State College in the drop down menus. Tosearch for books in other libraries, select All locations instead of Framingham StateCollege.

For example, heres a subject search to find books on Amelia Earhart. By doing a subjectsearch, it can help you narrow your topic.

Once you find a book, write down the call number to help you find the book in thelibrary.

All full-time and part-time Framingham State College students can borrow books fromthe Whittemore Library, as well as other libraries within the Minuteman Library

Network. Day and evening students must register with the library to activate the studentID barcode or student ID number. Borrowing privileges will expire when the student andare no longer affiliated with the college.

I recommend that you do not limit your search only to Framingham State College. Youcan always request a book from another library within Minuteman Library Network.Usually books requested from the network are received within the week. You can alsoorder books from the Virtual Catalog, and the WorldCat database. These requests takemore time to process.

V. Library Cards and Interlibrary Loan

Questions? Email ( [email protected] ) or call us at (508.626.4655).
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Once you register your library card, you are able to request books and articles throughinterlibrary loan (ILL). You can request a book or article through interlibrary loan athttp://www.framingham.edu/wlibrary/illform.htm .Your request might take more than twoweeks to fulfill. Please contact Neil Conrad at 508.626.4690 for questions on ILL.

VI. Searching for Articles:For a listing of all of our research databases, go to the A to Z List of Databases link onthe library webpage. If you are off campus, you must authenticate by entering your network account.http://www.framingham.edu/wlibrary/finding/articles.htm

You will find relevant articles in the following library databases: InfoTracs General Onefile Ebscos Academic Search Premier

(If an article is available online in a FirstSearch database, it will prompt you for a full text password. The password is fsc.)

VII. Searching in EBSCOs Academic Search Premier

When you get some results, select articles by adding them to a folder.

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Open the folder icon at the top of the page once you have selected the articles. In thefolder view, select the articles that you would like to print, email, export, or save.

To find out how an article is cited, select the title of the article and select this icon. Noticealso how the article is classified with other subject terms that you can use.



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EBSCO formats the article in a number of citation styles:

VIII.Searching for Full-Text Articles if You Have the CitationIf you come across a bibliography that contains citations and would like to view any of the articles online, enter the name of the journal in the Full Text Journal Finder.(http://pj8tr3fm5l.search.serialssolutions.com/ )

If the journal is available online, the page results will list the research databases thatcontain the article full text. You then need to search for the article in that particular database.

If an article is not available full-text, you can check the red binder to see if the librarycarries it in print. For questions on our print journals, please contact Deb Hogan,

periodicals supervisor, at [email protected] .

IX. Searching for scholarly articles in Google ScholarSelect the link A to Z List of Databases on the library homepage and then the GoogleScholar link. Once on the Google Scholar page, go to Scholar Preferences and make surethat Framingham State College is listed as a preferred library.

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Also select RefWorks as a preferred Bibliographic Manager:

When creating a search in GoogleScholar, you do not need to link terms by and for example: Amelia Earhart disappearance

Further instructions here: http://whittemorelibrary.wordpress.com/2008/02/16/try-google-scholar/

X. Searching on the Google for Information

Try to keep the search simple. Play around with various key words to get the best hits.Use advanced search feature in Google.

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