Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Religion 12

Immigration Debate Project

Objective
- generate keywords for searches
- distinguish among search results to find the most suitable source
- refine searches using engine tools
- cite sources
- use noodle tools to complete a bibliography

Online Research Tools:
Sweet Search (Exactly like Google, but approved by teachers and designed for student research)
Gale Power Search
username & password: holynames
  • Set up an account so you can save your searches
  • Do an advanced search
  • Keep search assist on (green) if you would like gale to assist with search
  • Limit the results to:
    • 1) enter dates (suggest looking at articles published only in the last two years
    • 2) documents with full text (or images if that is what you seek
    • 3) consider changing from keyword to subject during search; try various options
  • After you retrieve your results, consider limiting to magazines, news, etc.


Articles:
Catholic sister advocating for immigrant rights
           - US Catholic Bishops information on immigration
           - Quaker information on immigration
           - Christians for Comprehensive Immigration Reform
Congressional representative
Border Patrol
Prison guard
Immigrant from Mexico
Undocumented college student
Lots more references for immigration
Travel across the border
Deported
Armed Vigilante


NoodleTools:
Noodle tools is the program we use to help us create citations for our research. If you don’t have a noodle tools account, please follow the directions on how to create an account. If you have an account and forgot your password, talk to Ms. Waller.

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