Before we begin…
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Go to the LHS webpage.
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Click “Departments”.
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Click “Media Center”.
Welcome English 9/
Interactive Media Class
Mrs. Kozma – Library/Media Director
Mrs. Hoots – Library/Media Assistant
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Research
Your goal – Research whether
hunting should be legal or illegal.
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My goal – Show you there s more to
research than googling it !
Your topic requires credible,
interesting information. Your
research should include facts from
credible sources (not wikipedia). Credible Sources
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Credible? What do mean, Mrs. Kozma?
Credible sources are ones you can trust
to be accurate!
Credible sources have already gone
through an evaluation process by
experts. You do not have to evaluate
them beyond their relevancy to your
information need. You will not get
inaccurate information with the sources
I am showing you today!
Credible Sources
Four credible sources here include
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Library Books
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Grolier Online Encyclopedia
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Gale Cengage Databases (such as
Opposing Viewpoints) and eBooks
Google Books (not the same as
Google)
Credible Sources
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Library books, Grolier Encyclopedia
articles, and selections from Gale
Cengage databases are even cited
for you in MLA format! For you! You
don t have to do a thing! Copy and
paste! J
College Libraries
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Purdue University, for example, has
453 databases that you would be
expected to use as a student there. We’re only focusing on four LHS
library resources. Four gives us a
good introduction. Books Credible Source #1
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Let’s search for endangered species
and see how the catalog will cite
the book for you in MLA format. Grolier Encyclopedia
Credible Source #2
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At school, there is no need to login. At
home, the login is trilowell and the
password is Grolier . There are also web links, related articles,
etc. attached to Grolier that have already
been evaluated. Let s go back to the library s webpage and
click Grolier . Try “hunting”. Gale Cengage Databases
Credible Source #3
 
 
You do not need to login at school. At home,
the password is reddevils . Let s go back to the library s webpage and
click Opposing Viewpoints in Context . We
will use the search term “hunting”. Opposing
Viewpoints is a gold mine of information! Google Books
Credible Source #4
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Books from “Google Books” are not
the same as a random Google
search!
Books from Google Books have gone
through an evaluation process just
as books in the library have.
Google Books
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You must cite Google Books on your
own! Use EasyBib, BibMe, the MLA
handbook, or handouts and webpages
from class such as Purdue OWL. Frost, Robert. North of Boston. 2nd ed. New York: Henry Holt and Co.,
1915. Google Books. Web. 30 June 2009. Let s go back to the
library s webpage and click “Google
Books”. Let’s try “anti-hunting”.
Google
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When you do a random Google
search you have to use a webpage
evaluation tool such as the CRAP
test. Wait. Did Mrs. Kozma just say
“crap”?
Yes. The CRAP test decides whether
a webpage is CRAP or not.
CRAP Test
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C – Currency (Is it up to date?)
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R – Reliability (Is it accurate?)
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A – Authority (Is the author an expert?)
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P – Purpose/Point of View (Fact? Opinion?)
You will learn more about this in class!
CRAP Test
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Watch what happens when I
“google” “hunting pro con”. CRAP Test
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If you stick with the sources I
showed you, you can SKIP the
CRAP Test! Yay!
Happy Researching!
If you have questions please ask me!
You can even come see me during
Advisory if you need me!