| English
11 (Gender Troubles)
Resources | |
| Review of Searching Techniques |
| Click here for a review of searching techniques |
| Electronic Indexes for Journal and Newspaper Articles and other Information |
| Expanded Academic Index |
| FactSearch |
| Contemporary Women's Issues |
| Dow Jones Interactive (for responses to the ad itself) |
| Lexis-Nexis (Use "Legal" Section for "Myth" #4) Use "News" for others |
| Biography Resource Center (find Biographical Information about the individuals listed) |
| CQ Researcher (Good for presenting both sides of a controversial issue) |
| ERIC (Good for "Myths" # 1, 6,7,& 10) |
| Education Abstracts (Good for "Myths" # 1, 6,7,& 10) |
| Medline (Good for "Myth" # 5) |
| PsycInfo (Good for "Myths" # 8, 9) |
| Social Science Abstracts (Good for "Myths" # 8, 9) |
| Books Available for Checkout |
| To find books on your topic, you will probably want
to do a keyword search in ALCUIN,
the Library's online catalog. ALCUIN supports most of the standard
searching techniques we discussed in class, including Boolean Operators
(AND, OR), Nesting (using parentheses), and Truncation (using the
asterisk *). You might, for example, might want to do a keyword search
such as the following:
(women* or female* or gender*) and (salar* or compensat*) |
| Web Searching & Evaluation |
| Bureau of Labor Statistics |
| Bureau of Justice Statistics |
| Google's Advanced Search (Esp. limited to Gov info) |
| Evaluating What You Find |
| Internet Detective |
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Fairbairn.
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