GEL 101 Library Module
Homework Assignments
 

Homework assignment #1
due next library class,

  • Write a thesis statement using the thesis builder. Email to your library module instructor: Gabriela Sonntag at gsg@csusm.edu

Homework assignment #2
due next library class,

  • Find a Website on your leadership topic by using either a search engine or a directory.
  • Watch the online tutorial carefully and use their criteria for evaluating the website that you found. Be sure to locate the specific items on the website that allow you to evaluate it as appropriate for college-level research.  
  • Bring a printout of the website to class showing the areas you have used to evaluate the site.
     

Homework assignment #3
due next library class,

  • List 3 keywords/search statements and the number of results for each.
  • Find a book in the Catalog or Circuit
USING THE BOOK YOU FOUND:
  • List all subject headings.
  • Write a 200+ word essay  that:
    • briefly explains what you think the book is about,
    • Compares and contrasts keyword searching and subject searching.
    • Tells other ways can you search in the catalog besides keyword and subject searching.
    • Explains the relationship of keyword to subject and subject to call number.
        
            
            

Homework assignment #4
due next library class,

  • Watch this searching tutorial. You have to give your name but it will not put you on any list or anything.

 

  • Then, find 2 articles-- one scholarly, one popular--  using Academic Search Premier or Lexis Nexis Academic databases.

     

  • Cite each article in APA style:
         Example: Moran, C. (2004, October 3).
    Report evaluates education progress among local Latinos.San Diego Union Tribune. Retrieved October 15, 2004 from ProQuest Newspapers database.
     
  • Write an essay (400 words) comparing and contrasting each article explaining which one is scholarly and why. The course guide has a section on Finding articles and on scholarly articles to help you.

 

Be sure to label each citation as to whether it is the scholarly or the popular one.


Homework assignment #5
due next library class,

 

  •    Critical review chart. Fill out the critical review chart for at least 3 sources you will be using in your literature review. Include the entire citation information for these sources using correct APA style.

Homework assignment #6
due next library class,

  • Review section on "Citing and Documenting Sources" from UCLA's Bruin Success with Less Stress website
  • Write one scenario in which a student could be accused of academic dishonesty. (200 words)

     

Critical Literature Review Worth 60 POINTS  due Oct26th.

Using the literature review chart you will write an essay that compares and contrasts the 6 sources that you have chosen during the library module. Remember that the literature review must discuss each source and how it supports your thesis statement and the supporting and opposing arguments. Also you must discuss how the research or other information in the source contributes to your understanding of the subject. Literature review is an essay but a cover page with your name, course name and number, professors name, date and the topic of your review must be included. Also a bibliography or works cited page in correct APA style is required.

 

 

 
Last updated 9/07 by GSonntag