ESL (Joyal)
Greetings! I'm honored to be your personal librarian for your ESL course.
I can help you pick a topic, find articles, or answer any other question. Seriously. I got you!
I share office hours with an awesome team of librarians, so if you'd like some one-on-one help click here to book an appointment or let me know a time that works for you. We're here for you!
Sarah Naomi Campbell| scampbell@jwu.edu | 401-598-5019
Did you know you can also chat or text with a librarian? It's anonymous, free, and super fast! Simply click the Ask a Librarian button below, or look for it on our home page!
Scenario: You have to write a short paper for a media communications class on the topic of how students experience stress and how meditation and yoga may help.
Using the ABCD criteria on your handout, work with your team to score the source you are assigned.
Is your source credible? Let's watch a video on scholarly sources to find out.
Pro-Tip: Each team evaluates ONE of the following sources:
To take the Information Literacy Module, click here.
Did you know you can also submit your paper online 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to Smarthinking for seriously awesome feedback within 24 hours?
It's FREE! Look for the link in jwulink, under the Academic tab, under Tutoring.
Starting your problem & solution paper?
Start here, with this amazing mind map tool!
- Health and Life Sciences Journals Collection (ScienceDirect / Elsevier) This link opens in a new window
- Peer-reviewed journal articles
- If full-text is not available, select "Get Access" to order a free copy of the article
- Requests are processed usually within 24 hours, or the next business day
- Opposing Viewpoints This link opens in a new window
- Support your point of view on a controversial issue with facts and statistics from primary and government documents, photos, magazine and newspaper articles which have already argued your case
- Explore opposing sides of the most important issues helps to develop information literacy and critical thinking skills
- Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
- A great place to start for most topics
- Mostly full-text articles from scholarly peer-reviewed journals, trade journals, popular magazines, and newspapers
- If full-text is not available, click link to Check for Full Text (Providence) to connect to Interlibrary Loan (ILL) request form
Did you know you can copy and paste citations if you use the library's databases?
1. Save time - look for the "Cite" Button or " " icon.
2. Scroll to the style you need (APA, MLA)
3. Copy and paste the full citation into your paper
Ta Da! You're done! Well, almost. Sometimes weird formatting issues happen, so always double check your work.
Need help with in-text citations or more complicated citations? Use the OWL! It's super easy, and totally simple. This is also a really good time to make an appointment with a writing tutor to make sure your paper is totally perfect and all your citations are good to go or reach out to me for help!
Using Google can be really helpful when you're doing research, especially if you use these quick tips!
1. Change the "Domain"
- Looking for Government information? Use .gov in your search
- If you search "Statistics on the economy" site:gov, you'll find government sites focusing on the economy, such as the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
- Looking for Education resources? Use .edu in your search
- If you search "statistics on the economy" site:edu, you'll find academic sites focusing on the economy, such as articles from colleges and universities.
- Looking for Non-Profit research? Use .org in your search
- If you search "statistics on the economy" site:org, you'll find non-profit sites focusing on the economy, such as the United Nations Statistics division.
2. Put your search in "Quotes"
- If you're searching for more than one word, use quotes to search as a phrase.
- EX: "Student Loans"
- A Google Scholar search will bring you lots of academic results, and it is a great place to start.
- If you can't read the articles online, let us know and we'll find the Full Text for you!
Scenario: You have to write a paper for your ESL class on the topic of oceanography.
Below, are several sources you are considering using for your problem-solution paper.
You are searching for information on a scientific challenge/problem and how one, specific technological innovation has been developed to address that problem.
However, your first challenge is to determine if the sources you've identified are credible enough to include in your paper.
Work in teams, using the handout, to determine if the source assigned to your team is credible and how the source might benefit your paper.
Afterwards, we will come back together as a class to present our findings.
