STEP Students—Welcome!

Esther GrassianUCLA College Library

6/30/10

Outline

Focus a Topic Useful Books Magazines & Journals Find Useful Scholarly Articles Questions Welcome!

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Broadening a Topic

“Chicana painters of the 1990s in L.A. used art to focus attention on political issues.”

Brainstorming Search Words

Chicana painters L.A. political issues

Related words…

Chican* Hispanic Latin* artist* Los Angeles California politic*

Broader Topic/Argument

“From 1990 through 2005, Chicano/a artists in California used art to focus attention on political issues.”

Narrowing a Broad Topic

“Gender issues”

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Using Topic Limiters

Broad topic: Gender issues Limiters…

Timeframe: 1995-2005 Geographic Region: California Person/Group: African-American

women Event/Aspect: Higher education & state

politics

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Topic Sentence/Argument

“Over a ten-year period in California, from 1995 to 2005, African-American women with higher education degrees had an increasing impact on state politics.”

Questions?

Visible vs. Invisible Web

Find Useful Books!

Questions?

Magazines vs. Journals

Academic Conversations

Picking a Database…

Topics? Materials? Time?

Academic Search Complete

Topics: Wide range Materials: Articles (from 5500

periodicals) Time: 1865+ (for some

periodicals)

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Evaluate Results!

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Questions?

Review

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