ENG101.EnglishComp.1.Honors.Greene

toc =ENG 101: English Composition I (Honors)=
 * Professor B. Greene**



This guide is designed to help you research Honors English Composition topics. It includes an index of scholarly sources that should be used. Included in the list are websites and search engines that will be helpful in your research. If you have any trouble finding these sources, please ask a librarian for help. Good Luck! Any comments or suggestions are welcome!
 * [|RCC Library Home Page]: Most materials found in this research guide are available at the library's home page.
 * William Hoag: Please contact me if you have any questions concerning this guide or research.

=Books=

Books
The on-line catalog provides access to the Library's collection of approximately 40,000 books, periodicals and audio-visual titles. These resources may be used to find information for assignments or general interest. [|Tutorial for searching catalog and ordering books from Metro Boston Library Network (includes Boston Public Library)]

Good Search Terms to use: words or phrase

 * Poverty:**
 * Poverty
 * Poor
 * Economic conditions
 * Global Warming: for more information on global warming, see our Global Warming research guide.**
 * Global warming
 * Climate change
 * Greenhouse effect
 * Other, more specific terms within the subject might be carbon emissions, Kyoto Treaty, alternative energy, etc.
 * Education**
 * Early childhood education
 * Multicultural education
 * Adult education
 * Women's Issues**
 * Women's rights
 * Gender equality
 * Gender discrimination
 * Women and violence

New Books
__Banker to the Poor: micro-lending and the battle against world poverty__, HG3290.6.A6 Y86 2007

__With speed and violence: why scientists fear tipping points in climate change__, QL981.8.C5 P415 2007

__Equal Play: Title IX and social change__, KF4166 .E68 2007

Reference Books
__A Statistical Portrait of the United States: social conditions & trends__. REF. HA214 .S84 1998 __To Make Our City Whole: a report on the work of the Strategy Development Group of the Boston Persistent Poverty Project__. REF. HV99.B7 B6 1994x
 * Poverty:**

__Earth Keepers: a sourcebook for environmental issues and action.__ By Leslie Baer-Brown and Bob Rhein. San Francisco : Mercury House, 1995. REF GE195 .B34 1995 __Encyclopedia of Environmental Science__. By John Mongillo and Linda-Zierdt-Warshaw. Phoenix, Ariz.: Oryx Press, 2000. GE10 .M66 2000 __Global Warming__. Long, Douglas. REF QC 981.8.G56 L66 2004 __McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Environmental Science__. New York : McGraw-Hill, c2003. REF GE10 .M378 2003 __Science in the Contemporary World__. REF Q121.294 2005
 * Global Warming:**

__Encyclopedia of African-American Education__, Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1996. REF. LC2717 .E53 1996 __Encyclopedia of American Education__, New York : Facts on File, 1996. REF. LB17 .U54 1996 __Encyclopedia of Education__. REF.LB15 .E47 __Encyclopedia of Educational Research__, New York : Free Press, 1982. REF. LB15 .E48 1982 __Encyclopedia of Special Education : a reference for the education of the handicapped and other exceptional children and adults__, New York : Wiley, 2000. REF. LC4007 .E53 2000 __Fact Book on Higher Education__, New York : American Council on Education : Oryx Press, 1998. REF. LA227.3 .F3 1997
 * Education:**

__Abortion Decisions of the United States Supreme Court : the 1990's__, Beverly Hills, Calif. : Excellent Books, 1993. REF. KF3771.A52 A264 1993. __Domestic Violence Source Book__, Detroit, MI : Omnigraphics, 2004. REF. HV6626.2 .D685 2004
 * Women's Issues:**

__The Women’s Rights Movement in the United States, 1848-1970; a bibliography and sourcebook__, Metuchen, N.J., Scarecrow Press, 1972. REF. Z7964 .U49K75

=Periodicals= Browse these paper journals and magazines in the library's first floor periodicals section for articles for your class.
 * Early Childhood Education Journal
 * Journal of Educational Research
 * National Geographic
 * Newsweek
 * Scientific American
 * Time

=Articles= Access to millions of journal, magazine, newspaper and reference source articles through our research databases. Provides full text for more than 3,800 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study. [|Tutorial] Academic OneFile is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources, [|Tutorial] Credo Reference is a completely customizable general reference solution for learners and librarians. Its full-text, aggregated content covers every major subject from the world's best publishers of reference. [|Tutorial] Almost 600 articles available when searching for "global warming." [|Tutorial] ERIC, the U.S. Department of Education Educational Resource Information Center database, contains citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals. [|Tutorial]
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=Web sites= There are many good web sites on the internet. These web sites have been evaluated by library staff. Remember to always evaluate internet resources. To find out more about evaluating web sites, [|Lesley University] has a very good guide.

Search Engines

 * [|Google]
 * [|Altavista]
 * [|Scirus] : Science search engine.
 * [|Infomine] : Scholarly search engine.

Poverty

 * [|Poverty.com]: a excellant place to start.
 * [|U.S. Cencus Bureau- Poverty] : Official statistics from the U.S. government.
 * [|PovertyNet]: All about poverty from the World Bank.

Global Warming

 * Global Warming Research Guide: Use our global warming research guide to find links to internet resources.

Education

 * [|Internet Public Library- Education]: Resource directory.
 * [|National Center for Education Statistics]: Education statistics.
 * [|U.S. Department of Education]
 * [|National Institute on Early Childhood Development and Education]
 * [|Multicultural Education Links]

Women Issues

 * [|Women's Studies / Women's Issues Resource Sites]: an updated resource directory.
 * [|Feminist Majority]: a website covering current women's issues.
 * [|ACRL- Women's Studies Section]: Directory covering a wide range of women's issues.

=Citing Sources: Style Guides=

__[|APA Style Tutorial]__ [|Duke Library Guide to Assembling a List of Works Cited] [|Laguardia Community College Library MLA and APA citation style] [|The Owl at Purdue: APA Formatting and Style Guide] [|The Owl at Purdue: MLA 2009 Formatting and Style Guide]

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Research guide prepared on 09/20/08 by Wiliam Hoag: whoag@rcc.mass.edu Updated 12/21/09