Need the following form completed. Please follow the directions. Also I uploaded 2 sources that I want used for question 2 and 3. Please answer question 1 and use a source from a website.

Plaza College

 

Name:                                                                                                      Date: 6/30/2016

 

LL61 Writing and Fundamentals of Research                                                                                                                 

Information Literacy Project

 

Information Literacy Form 2: Search Engines, Databases, and Evaluation of Sources

On this form, you will be expected to gather research from one Internet search engine and two library databases. For your three sources, you should select one that relates to eachthesis point! You will need one source for each body paragraph of your essay.

 

PRELIMINARY THESIS POINTS FROM FORM 1: 

 

Overcrowded public schools,

 

Overcrowded shelters,

 

Overcrowded prisons

 

 

 

Source 1:

For page 2, you will use an Internet search engine (Google, Bing, Yahoo) to identify a web page containing information on your topic. *Do not use non-academic sources such as Ask, About, eNotes, Wikipedia, Shmoop, Gradesaver, eHow, or Answers.com.  Evaluate the credibility and reliability of the website. If you are not sure, ask your instructor, librarian, or ARC tutor.

 

Source 2:

For page 3, you will use a library database (Plaza’s Library offers ProQuest, Ebsco, Novel) to identify a source containing information on your topic from a journal. When you search for this source in a library database, be sure you select a scholarly journal.

 

Source 3:

For page 4, you will use a library database (Plaza’s Library offers ProQuest, Ebsco, Novel) to identify a source containing information on your topic from a magazine or newspaper. **You must use a DIFFERENT database from question 2. (For example, you cannot use Proquest twice.)

 

 

 

 

Source 1: Website

Evaluate a source that you found using an Internet search engine:

 

Author(s)_______________________________

 

“Title of Specific Web Page or Article”:“_______________________________________.”

 

Name of Website:___________________________________________________________

 

Name of Publisher/Sponsor:   _________________________________________________

 

Date of Posting/Last Updating: ___________________ Retrieval date: ________________

 

1)       What point from the preliminary 3-part thesis statement does this connect to?

 

 

2)       Explain how this source supports this thesis point. What did you learn?

 

 

3)       After examination of this source, identify two direct quotes and one paraphrase that will support the thesis.  (Use signal phrases, quotations marks, and in-text citations.) Indicate whether the quote or paraphrase being used is a fact or opinion)

 

 

Direct Quote #1:

 

Direct Quote #2:

 

Paraphrase:

 

 

Source 2: Database Journal (20 points)

Evaluate a journal article that you found using a library database:  

 

Author(s)_________________________________________________________________

 

 “Title of Journal Article”: “_________________________________________________.”

 

Name of Journal:___________________________________________________________

 

Volume number: _______    Issue number: _______                            

 

Publication date: ________________     Retrieval date: _______________

 

Name of database service (Proquest, Ebsco, Novel):____________________________

 

Name of specific database (NOT Proquest, Ebsco, Novel – This must be a specific database you find in the online citation details.):____________________________

 

1)       What point from the preliminary 3-part thesis statement does this connect to?

 

 

2) Explain how this source supports this thesis point. What did you learn?

 

 

 

3) After examination of this source, identify two direct quotes and one paraphrase that will support the thesis.  (Use signal phrases, quotations marks, and in-text citations.)Indicate whether the quote or paraphrase being used is a fact or opinion)

 

 

Direct Quote #1:

 

Direct Quote #2:

 

Paraphrase:

 

 

 

Source 3: Database Magazine or Newspaper (20 points)

Evaluate a magazine or newspaperarticle that you found using a library database:  

**You must use a DIFFERENT database from question 3.

 

Author(s) Baker, Al

 

“Title of Magazine or Newspaper Article”:“ Public Schools in City Are Now Poorer and More Crowded, Budget Agency Finds.”

 

Name of Magazine or Newspaper: The New York Times

 

Publication date: July 2, 2014                 Retrieval date: July 16, 2016

 

Name of database service (Proquest, Ebsco, Novel) Proquest

 

Name of specific database (NOT Proquest, Ebsco, Novel – This must be a specific database you find in the online citation details): National Newspapers Premier

               

1)       What point from the preliminary 3-part thesis statement does this connect to?

 

Overcrowded Public Schools

 

2)       Explain how this source supports this thesis point. What did you learn?

 

 

3)       After examination of this source, identify two direct quotes and one paraphrase that will support the thesis.  (Use signal phrases, quotations marks, and in-text citations.) Indicate whether the quote or paraphrase being used is a fact or opinion)

 

 

Direct Quote #1:

 

 

Direct Quote #2:

 

 

Paraphrase: