Welcome to the DLM 110-RACE, RACISM, RACIALIZATION Research Help guide! This is a compilation of electronic resources that will direct you to scholarly information useful in your research for this course. The most significant and impactful databases to which Centre College has access are included here. If you would like assistance in using these resources, or need help finding additional information, please contact a reference librarian.
Discover more about primary sources here: https://library.centre.edu/Framework/Evaluate
Newspapers and magazines written at the time of an event are a good primary source. Below are our newspaper databases
What is a peer reviewed source? A peer-reviewed source is one written by a credentialed expert in a given field and reviewed by other credentialed experts in that field before publication. In this way, its evidence, methodology, analysis and conclusions are assured to be sound and unbiased.
What is a secondary source? Secondary sources interpret, assign value to, conjecture upon, and draw conclusions about the events or results reported in primary sources. Most scholarly articles, including the academic papers students write, where authorities make a claim and support it using evidence from primary sources, are secondary sources.
Citation is a way to tell your readers:
(1) which ideas in your paper were borrowed from other sources and
(2) the information necessary to find each source.
Citation is important because
The moment you are asked to cite, take a look at your assignment to see if a specific citation style is indicated. This information must be known before you can properly cite your work. Whichever the citation style used, using it correctly protects you from accusations of plagiarism.
MLA Handbook Plus includes the full text of the ninth edition of the handbook, the second edition of the MLA Guide to Digital Literacy, and the MLA Guide to Undergraduate Research in Literature, as well as a video course that teaches the principles of MLA documentation style through a series of short videos paired with quizzes, plus a final assessment.
From Purdue University, a comprehensive online guide to MLA citation style.
Provides examples for citing online sources in the MLA style.
Literature mapping (related to Concept mapping) is a way to identify academic articles by exploring connections between the literature. Publications can be linked by citations, authors, funders, keywords, and other means. These connections can be realized by the use of free browser-based tools like the ones listed below
Please SAVE, DOWNLOAD, and SUBMIT worksheet here: https://centre.libwizard.com/f/StrategicSearchKeywords
Please use the above QR code on your phone
Or this URL: https://centre.libwizard.com/f/ILIStudentEval25_26
To evaluate today's library instruction. This helps us improve. Thank you!
