ENGL 1302 - Kroll - Spring 2011  

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The library will have workshops to help you with citations, research, and more!  They are drop in (so you don't have to stay the whole time).  Bring your questions!
Workshop Schedule: http://www.alamo.edu/nlc/docs/WORKSHOPSSPR2011.pdf

• April 25:
  • Lit Crit at 1:00 PM
  • Citation Workshop at 5:15 PM
• April 26:
  • Citation Workshop at 9:30 AM
  • Procrastinator's Workshop at 1:30 PM
  • Evaluating Websites at 6:30 PM
• April 27
  • Citation Workshop at 7:30 AM
  • Citation Workshop at 10:00 AM
  • Citation Workshop at 4:30 PM
  • Procrastinator's Workshop at 6:30 PM
• April 28
  • Wikipedia for My Paper? at 8:30 AM
  • Citation Workshop at 11:00 AM
  • Lit Crit at 7:00 PM
• April 29
  • Wikipedia for My Paper? at 10:00 AM
  • Wikipedia for My Paper? at 11:00 AM
  • Know Your Library at 3:00 PM
  • Use Google for Good at 4:00 PM

Also, Midnight Madness is back!  The library will be open from:

• 7:30 AM to Midnight May 2nd - May 5th
• 7:30 AM to 5:00 PM May 6th
• 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM May 7th

Activities:

• Guess the Google
• Boolify Project
• Visuwords
• CreedoReference Concept Map
• Scholarly vs Popular Articles

   

Fast Search Strategies:
Save yourself lots of time and have an easier, quicker, and more productive search by using these search strategies.

• 3 B's - Brainstorm, Browse, Boolean (AND, OR, NOT)
• Field searching - Subject, Author, Title
• Quotation marks for exact phrase
• Truncation - root + variants (*) 
• Database Limiters: date, publication type, type, peer-reviewed, etc.