ENGL 39X LIBRARY SESSION ASSESSMENT

University ID# (from front of your ID card):

Question 1:What is your Professional Writing research topic? Describe it in one sentence (e.g. "How to decrease employee turnover in a Tex-Mex restaurant.")

Question 2: List the two or three major concepts within your research topic, and some related concepts or alternative terms (e.g. Concept one: restaurant -- food service, retail, franchise; Concept two: employee turnover -- hiring, human resources, training).

Concept One:

Concept Two:

Concept Three:

Question 3: Why would you use a multidisciplinary database such as Academic Search Premier for your ENGL 39X research?

Question 4: How can you get access to the Libraries databases that contain articles and other information? Check one.
Go to the Libraries home page and click on Catalog.
Go to the Libraries home page and click on Research Port.
Do a web search for the database name.
Do a web search for articles using a search engine like Google.

Question 5: Why would it be helpful to use a book as part of your ENGL 39X research?

Question 6: In the recent library session, Diane Harvey suggested a strategy for approaching your Professional Writing research. Please indicate which research resource you'd use first, then which one you would use next, etc.
Choose one Multidisciplinary database like Academic Search or LexisNexis Catalog Web search using a search engine like Google Specialized database like Education Abstracts or Business Source Premier

Choose one Multidisciplinary database like Academic Search or LexisNexis Catalog Web search using a search engine like Google Specialized database like Education Abstracts or Business Source Premier

Choose one Multidisciplinary database like Academic Search or LexisNexis Catalog Web search using a search engine like Google Specialized database like Education Abstracts or Business Source Premier

Choose one Multidisciplinary database like Academic Search or LexisNexis Catalog Web search using a search engine like Google Specialized database like Education Abstracts or Business Source Premier

Question 7: When you search a database like Academic Search, some of the records that you'll retrieve have a link to the full text along with the citation. If there is no full text link right there, what can you do to find and read the full text of that article? Check all that apply
Look in the Libraries catalog to see if we subscribe to the journal that contains the article, and then come to the library and make a photocopy.
Use the yellow Find It button that is with the article citation to see where the article might be found.
Use a web search engine like Google Scholar to find the full text.
Ask a librarian for help at a reference desk at any campus library.

Question 8: When you were doing your own research during the library session at McKeldin, did you email an article citation, or the full text of an article, to yourself?
Choose one Yes No

Question 9: In the time since you were at the library session in McKeldin, have used one of the Libraries databases (like Academic Search or Lexis-Nexis) to find information for your ENGL 39X research?
Choose one Yes No
If yes, what was the name of the database?