Speaker 1: Hello everyone, I'm making this video to demonstrate how to access and use SWMHS's library databases for the purpose of doing research and taking notes for our research paper. Before I get into that though, I just want to touch on the fact that last week I had multiple people already tell me what topic they were going to pick for their research paper, which is great. A lot of people chose topics from the list that I gave you as suggestions on the assignment sheet. I did state on Thursday of last week that if you wanted to pick a topic that again was related to the civil rights movement from the civil rights era, that was not on that list. That you contact me via private comment on Classroom or email me and that I will tell you that yes, I approve it, it's a good topic, you'll be able to find a lot of information on it, or no and I'll be able to point you in a better direction. So if you're still planning on picking a topic that's not on that list on the assignment sheet, please make sure that you contact me and I will approve it or I won't approve it and give you other ideas. Alright, before we get into actually getting into the databases, what you're looking at is a document that I put up on Classroom today and basically it just has research paper tips and suggestions. Basically these are tips and suggestions for you when you're conducting your research. So when you're going into the databases and when you're doing your searching and finding your sources, this is the type of information you should be looking for. So I broke it down into what kind of topic you pick. So I had a bunch of people reach out and tell me their topics and they were people, right? So civil rights activists. If you chose a person, these are the types of facts that I'm looking for in the research paper drafts. So I want you to search for the following information. First accomplishments. So specific details about that person's civil rights accomplishments and key events from their life. You know, what was their role in these events and what did they accomplish in terms of promoting civil rights in this country? Secondly, I want you to look for information on their impact on society. How did they help others? At the time, how did they help others in this country? And then lastly, guys, I want you to find important quotes, either spoken by the person that you're researching or from someone else speaking about that person. The reason why it's really important that you find some quotes is that you're going to be using those quotes in the draft portions of the research assignment. It's really difficult to, once you have your sources and you have your note cards all done, to go back and find additional quotes from those sources. To avoid that, make sure that when you're doing your notes the first time, make sure you're including some quotes. The asterisk I put here is important. So I've been teaching this research paper this way for the last few years, and every year I've gotten a few papers from students that included excessive details. So what I mean by excessive details is details about a person's childhood, early life, any information not related to civil rights. So I'm asking you, please do not use those kinds of details in your paper. We want to focus on civil rights and what they did specifically to further civil rights in this country. So avoid the discussion on the childhood, early life, and stuff that's not relevant. If you chose an event or a law from the list or you got approval for another event or a law from the civil rights era, I want you to search for the following information. So whether it's an event or a law, it doesn't matter. You have to find first and foremost specific details about that event or law. Basically who was involved in the event? What happened in the event or law? Why did this event take place or why was this law passed? So basically that third question is what was happening in this country before the event took place that led up to the event occurring? And if it's a law, what was happening in this country that mandated that a law be passed to change things? Secondly, you want to find information on and then eventually write on the event or the law's impact on society. So basically how did this event or this law affect American life at the time, meaning in the 1960s and in the future? So what was the long-term impact over the years? Lastly, just like if you were searching for a person, you want to find important quotes about the event or from the law. That could be a quote from someone that attended the event, first-hand account, or it could be someone discussing the impact of that event. For the law, same thing. You can find a quote maybe about someone discussing the impact of the law or if you pick the law, you might want to use some of the language actually used in that law. So if you find a transcript of it, you can find a quote potentially in that law that you can use in your paper. So again, you need some quotes that you're eventually going to be using in the draft portion of the paper. All right, let's look at the databases. So this document that you're looking at right now, I shared with you on Classroom. This is from Mrs. Desmond's Google Classroom. Mrs. Desmond, our fantastic school librarian, has a cool Classroom page that I'm going to give you the code to in a moment. That's very useful. I highly suggest that you join the Classroom page. She put up a how-to guide on how to access databases from home, which is exactly what we're looking for. So we're going to follow this. First things first, we're going to go to sablehigh.net. So I have that in a different tab. Once you're on this page, you're going to click on Students, and then you're going to click on SWMHS Library Web Link. Okay, this is the high school home page, high school library home page. And again, this is the Classroom code that I was alluding to. My suggestion, join that Google Classroom. Again, she lists things very frequently, especially during online learning, that could be useful for you, not just in this class, but any class. So make sure you add that Classroom code. What we're looking for, though, is on the left-hand side, Library Catalog and Databases. Click on it. You may get this error message. If you do, I want you to click on Home, then you're going to get a list of all the school districts that utilize these databases. We want to scroll down. We're going to find Sayerville. This is an alphabetical order, so we're scrolling down to the S's. Click on Sayerville School District. With the high schools, we're going to click on Sayerville Memorial High School. This is a list of all of the databases we have access to in the Sayerville District. For this paper, we're only going to be using one of the library databases, and that library database is going to be EBSCOhost. If we were in the classroom, we would click on this EBSCOhost, and it would pull up, and we'd be fine. Since we're doing remote learning, we're going to have to click on the third one down, EBSCOhost Remote. So everyone click on that. We come to this page. We need to input a user ID and a password. That's where we come back to Mrs. Desmond's page, and we find that information. We scroll down, and this is what we're going to use for our username and for our password. So user ID is going to be SWMHS. Password is going to be HSLibrary, the number 20, exclamation point. So let's try that. All right, so we're in. We're going to click on EBSCOhost Web. On this screen, we're going to click on Select slash Deselect All to give us the most amount of information possible. Click Continue. All right, here's our EBSCOhost page, searching page. So we're going to put our search terms in in a moment. For this demonstration, I'm going to pick a topic example that was submitted to me by a few different students last week. They decided to go with this person. Again, you're going to input whatever topic you chose. But for this demonstration purpose, we're going to use Martin Luther King Jr. So we'll do that in a moment. We're going to type his name in. Before we type, though, I want you to scroll down, and we're going to modify our search. So on the left-hand side, you're going to see a title that says Limit Your Results. You'll see Linked Full Text. What this is, is basically when you use EBSCOhost or any database, and if you don't click this off, you're going to get results, thousands of results. Some of them only have images. Some of them have very limited amount of information, meaning like a paragraph or less. And we don't want those kind of sources. So for this research paper, we want to make sure we have full text. So click this off, Linked Full Text. Make sure you always do that. On the right-hand side here, you'll see Scholarly and in parentheses, Peer Reviewed Journals. We're going to click that, too. Basically, what a Scholarly or Peer Reviewed Journals are, is basically they have been vetted for accuracy, meaning they have been fact-checked. So their information in the Scholarly Journal is most likely more accurate than other sources. So it's important that we click that off so we get the best, most accurate information possible. So always click off Linked Full Text, always click off Scholarly Journals. Scroll back up, and here's what we're going to put in our search term. So we're going to use Martin Luther King, Jr. And guys, notice as I'm typing here, just like with a Google search, you're going to get some search suggestions down below. And take a look at them, because EBSCOhost, if you just do a Martin Luther King, Jr. search, it's going to give you thousands of articles. We do want to be as specific as possible with our searching, so there might be some useful suggestions. I see one right at the top, Civil Rights Movement, right? I also see some of the other ones that could relate, like I have a dream speech. Leadership, there's stuff, Letter from Birmingham Jail, all of these are really important events from his life. But for our purpose, let's try the Civil Rights Movement. So we're going to type in Martin Luther King, Jr. Civil Rights Movement, see what comes up. All right, so we get to this page, we see how many results we have at the top. There's 309, right? A substantial number. But a tip that I have for this is once we're scrolling through, we're going to see our pages go forward at the end. We'll be able to click the page two at the bottom of the page. But I would read the titles carefully. And if I have an idea in mind about my topic of what kind of information I might want to include, I would look at the topic and I would ask myself, is this going to be directly relatable to what I want to express in the paper? If you read the title and it seems like it's not related to what you want to express in the paper, I would literally just scroll past it. So reading the titles carefully here can be very useful for you. Notice underneath each search result, you have the option to click an HTML full text or a PDF full text. I always prefer PDF, just personal preference. But whatever one's there, click on it. And again, you're going to get a full document because we limited our search results. I see some results that are interesting here. I just want to do God's will, teaching Martin Luther King Jr. as a religious leader, bringing in religion in relation to Martin Luther King Jr. If that's something you're interested in writing about and researching, certainly you can click on that source. We keep scrolling down. This presumably is about a specific speech that he gave, the Riverside speech. And you're probably going to maybe find a little bit of a transcript of that speech and a discussion of the impact of that speech. So if that's something you want to write about in your paper, click on the full text and you'll be able to do that. Scroll down. And this seems like actually an interesting one. Going back to my suggestion. So you're looking for accomplishments, you're looking for impact and quotes. This one seems to be information on the impact, but the impact after the 1960s. So in the future. So here's our title, Walking from the Dream, the Struggle for Civil Rights in the Shadow of Martin Luther King Jr. So presumably, and I haven't clicked on this yet, but presumably this is going to talk about how people fared after Martin Luther King Jr.'s death. Right. And after Martin Luther King Jr.'s accomplishments. So this is going to maybe talk about the impact that he had on future generations of activists. Let's try that. Click on PDF full text. All right. So you found an article that you think is related, that's interesting to you. You want to use it potentially. Right. A rule of thumb that I use also, in addition to reading the titles carefully, is when I open these documents, I usually read the first paragraph. And if within that first paragraph, I don't think I think this is not directly related to my topic or something that I want to pursue in the paper. I don't go any further because these can get lengthy, these articles. I would go back and click on result list and I would look for a different source. Right. But if you read that first paragraph, you think it's interesting, you think you can use it, certainly keep reading. You scroll down and just like a text, if you had it in person, you scroll down and you find all your information. What I like about EBSCOhost is a couple of things. On the right hand side is if you found this as a good source, you find some note cards, you do some note cards on it and you're going to use this information in your paper, you're eventually going to have to cite it in a Works Cited page. On the right hand side here, we have an icon that's going to help us do that. So you'll see the cite icon. I want you to click it. And at the top, you're going to see this database source cited in various formats. This is English class. We're looking for MLA. So we're going to scroll down. We're going to find MLA, Modern Language Association, and here's our citing. So we're going to highlight it. We're going to copy it and we're going to paste it into the drafts, the rough draft and the final draft of our paper. When you have to do a Works Cited page, EBSCOhost makes it very easy, just like an easy bib.com makes it easy. But this time it's for database sources. So I like that feature for EBSCOhost. We're going to use it. All right. So let's say we are going to go with this source. You found some information and it's time to take some notes. There's a specific format that we have to use for note taking. So here's what it is. All right, so each one of you got this document. And basically, this first note card is a model note card. So this tells you exactly where everything goes. In the upper left corner of every note card that you that you write for this paper, you're going to have to put the source title. Right. What I mean by source title is literally the title that you clicked on to access the source. So in our case, we're going to see it up at the top. Walking from the dream, the struggle for civil rights in the shadow of Martin Luther King, Jr. You would write that down and you would make sure that you write down the entire title because whenever you go back to EBSCOhost, you want to be able to find that article again very easily. So. In quotation marks, I would write down the title. OK, so that's our title and that's what we're going to search when we go back to EBSCOhost tomorrow to try to find more information on the right hand side, we're going to put the note card number. So in this case is our first note card. We're going to put number one, right. Number one. So no card number. We put the number we press enter. All right. So in the middle now, we're going to put a title, so every note card is going to get an original title and that's going to be based off of whatever you're taking notes on. So if this if this source mentions a specific modern activist that is impacted by Martin Luther King, Jr. and that talks about Martin Luther King's impact, you might want to add the title for the note card. Write down this modern activist name. Right. Or you might want to write down as a title impact of MLK or whatever title you think relates to the information you're writing down. Right. So you come up with an original title for each note card. Then it's time to write the actual note. So we have three different types of notes we're going to use. We're going to do is we're going to use summaries. We're going to use paraphrasing. We're going to use direct quotes. Just and I'm going to reiterate this on classroom, but just to tell you, clarify for you guys, you need a total of at least three direct quotes. So you need at least three sources and you need at least three direct quotes, meaning I want at least one direct quote from each source. In addition to those three direct quotes, note cards, you are going to have to fill in the rest You are going to have to fill in the rest of the 12 required note cards with summaries and paraphrases. So a summary is different. You guys know this, but somebody is different than a paraphrasing. The summary is just kind of recanting what you just read. Right. And just putting it in order. The paraphrase is where you really put it into your own words. Right. You read a piece of information, you find it interesting and important, and then you're not just directly quoting at all. You are putting into your own words and you're paraphrasing it. Right. I want you to use over the course of the 12 note cards, at least one example of the summary and the paraphrase. If you only want to use one summary, for example, and you want to use eight paraphrases and you're required three direct quotes, that's fine. But you need at least one summary. You need one at least paraphrase and you need, again, three direct quotes. You write down your note and then we get to the commentary sentence. One to two sentences for commentary. As it says in the parentheses, you're only doing commentary if you use a direct quote. So if it's a direct quote note card, you need commentary. In the commentary, what you're going to put is why is the quote important? What does the quote reveal about your person or your event or your law? At the bottom, you're going to see a section where you put an asterisk next to what type of note it is. So if it's a summary, you put an asterisk on that line. If it's a paraphrase, you put an asterisk on that line. If it's a direct quote, you put an asterisk there. Right. And you'll see it at the bottom here. So if it's a paraphrase, we're going to put our cursor, we're going to put our asterisk. Finally, at the bottom left corner of each note card, you're going to write down the page number for the database source. Some database sources do not have page numbers. So if they don't, don't worry about it. If they do, though, you need to write down that page number. In this case, we have page numbers and you could see them at the top left. So it'd be 308. If you find a piece of information you want to use from 308, that's you're going to write that down at the bottom left corner of your note card. 308, 309, right. So our pages are increasing. 310, so on and so forth. If your database source has page numbers, make sure you write them down in your note cards. And you're going to follow that format for all 12 notes. Just to reiterate, 12 total note cards, three sources, four note cards per source. At least three direct quotes. Guys, if you have any questions at all, please email me. Please private comment me on Classroom. I'm here to help. I know this week we're going to be working on getting our sources, finding quality sources and taking notes on them. I'm here to help all week. So please reach out and contact me if you need to. Have a great day.