Speaker 1: Hey everybody, for essay 3, you are required to implement academic research into your essay, your argument or proposal. So I want to talk a little bit about how to conduct that research. Now the first thing is, is that we want academic research. And what I mean by that is that the research is peer-reviewed, that the source that you're looking at is reviewed by other people and approved for publication. So let's start with showing you how you can find some of this stuff. Let me back up a second and say, so for this assignment, like a news article you find from CNN.com won't count as one of your sources. An article you found from the New York Times won't count as one of your sources. An article from, you know, Newsweek will not count as one of your sources. You need academic research sources. And so to find these, you will go to the William Dykes Library page that we have here. And it's important that you click this box right here, scholarly peer-reviewed. That ensures that you're getting only academic resources. So, let's say that your, that your thesis for essay 3 is that the United States needs to adopt stricter laboratory guidelines for handling dangerous viruses. That's timely given that we have the coronavirus thing going on. So first you've got to come up with a list of keywords, right? So let's start with laboratory protocols. That means guidelines for laboratories, basically. And we're going to search on the UHD library web page. Let's see what comes up. Taking a while. Alright, here we go. So let's see what it came up with to give us. Alright, so here's an article. See how here it says academic journal? That's one way we know that it's a good academic source. Let's read the title. That's where we start. Clinically meaningful laboratory protocols reduce hospital charges based on institutional risk calculators and hepapancreatobiliary surgery. You have to ask yourself, does that sound like it's what we're looking for? And to me, it looks pretty specific, right? Whatever this is, this hepapancreatobiliary surgery, I think that article is going to be too specific for our essay, which is just hypothetically about, you know, just lab guidelines. So, data quality assisted with handwritten laboratory test requests. Classification and frequency of data entry errors. No, data entry errors doesn't sound right. Oh, this looks like may better. Combining ontologies and workflows to design formal protocols for biological laboratories. Alright, it says right here that it's an academic journal. Now, where was this published? That's important. And you can see it right here. A journal called Automated Experimentation. How new is it? 2010. Why is it going to matter how new it is? Well, because on a topic like laboratory protocols, something from 30 years ago probably isn't the best available research. So, depending on your topic, you want to think about, well, how old is this source? Would it be outdated for my topic? So, hypothetically, if you had, you know, if your topic had to do in some way with computing, right, probably anything much older than 2010 isn't going to work for this because you need, you know, computing changes year by year. Something that came out in like 2006 is ancient history now in the world of computing. Alright, but this was 2010, which looks pretty good, right? It tells us 14 pages. How do we find out if it's actually going to work for us? Well, we click on this. And when it finally opens up, there we go. It tells us more about it. And look at here. Here, there's an abstract, right? What is an abstract? Well, I'll tell you what an abstract is. What an abstract is is a paragraph that tells us what the article is about. So, the next step in finding sources would be to find, you know, like read this paragraph and see if you think that it works, okay? In the event that it does look good, right, then you probably want to download it right here, PDF full text, right? And then don't go and read it right away, right? What you should do first is find, I don't know, 15 or 20 articles that you think might work and just keep researching around. Now look, all this information is going to be important for creating the annotated bibliography, right? Here's the journal name. Here's the article title. Here's the year. Here's the volume of the journal. Here's the issue. So all a journal is, all this is right here, automated experimentation, it's like a magazine, right? And they publish different essays, peer-reviewed essays on this topic, right? In this issue of the magazine, they published this particular article, Combining Ontologies and Workflows to Design Formal Protocols for Biological Laboratories. All right? Now, so let's say we liked this one and we go back. And we keep looking, right? We look, does that look good? I don't know, does that look good? Does that look good? I don't know. All right, so let's say that we look through here. How many results did it give us? Gave us 2 million results for Laboratory Protocols. Maybe we go Laboratory Protocols and Viral, if this is our topic. No, not Journal of Viral Hepatitis.

Speaker 2: It's just too viral. Now, one thing you really, it's really important to do at first is to generate a long list of keywords, you know?

Speaker 1: Now, one thing you really, it's really important to do at first is to generate a long list of keywords, you know? So, you know, if, let's say your topic was gun control. You don't just search gun control, right? You search gun control, you research gun sales, you research firearm sales, firearm regulations, gun regulations, gun laws, firearm laws, weapons accessibility, weapons purchase, gun buying, right? You come up with a whole big list of keywords. And then you just keep clicking it, you know, clicking around and finding it. Here's an interesting one. Application of next generation sequencing technology on contamination monitoring in microbiology laboratories. Biosafety and health. And it's almost brand spanking new. June 2019. I would add that one. Now, you see here for this one, it doesn't offer, it doesn't say download PDF. It says full text finder. You can click that. It might come up, right? It might find, our library might find a way for you to download this. Now, if it doesn't, then you don't just say, oh, well, I guess I can't get it, right? If it doesn't, then there's something else you do. Let me show you. Let's say we go to UHD.edu. So we have all that information. Let's say we wrote down the name of that article, right? You would want to write down the name of the article, the author, where it's from, where it was published, when it was published. And then you go down to library at UHD's website. And there's a little link right here, you see, that says interlibrary loan. You can click that. And if you click that, then it'll bring you to a page where you can enter in the name, author, title of that particular article you're looking for. And the library will track it down for you and then email it to you as a PDF. It's a really great service. It's free. And you have time to do it if you begin your research early. So don't forget about that for other classes. That's always there, interlibrary loan. Another thing you could do, let me show you a top secret website. Google Scholar. Bet you didn't even know that existed, right? Sometimes Google Scholar will have full access to things that our library does not have full access to. So you could hit in the title of an essay here. Let's see, we'll do one of mine. Apology as Metanoic Performance. None of you will be using that for your essay though. And we search. And look, there it is. And it tells you where you can get a PDF. In that case, see, you can click there for the PDF. So if our library didn't have it, then you could access it there. It also tells you who it's been cited by and different things. So that's a useful tool. Let me show you something else.

Speaker 2: Let's see. Sorry, give me just a minute. Let's go here. Okay.

Speaker 1: So, let's say that you find an essay that you think will really help you with your topic. And writing your essay. Okay, so you found this essay, you've read it, you're like, oh, this is awesome. If only I could find more sources like this. Let's say that this was this article. Right? If you find an article you really like and you're having difficulty finding other sources, One smart thing to do is to go down to the end of it where they have all the notes or the work cited. And see what sources this author used to create this essay. Right? And they'll all be here. And that's one way that you can help do research. So let's say, for example, that this deconstructing charismatic leadership. This one right here. Deconstructing charismatic leadership. Let's say that we're like, oh, that looks really helpful for our topic. Then we would write down all that information that we found in this bibliography for this article we already like. We would go back to our library search. And we'd hit in deconstructing charismatic leadership. And we hit that in. See what we get.

Speaker 2: Hmm. Does not show it.

Speaker 1: Let's see. Did I type it in right? Deconstructing charismatic leadership. Yeah, I did. Well, let's see if it goes here. At least not in the top results. But we might then go to Google Scholar to find it. And if we can't find it there, then we might go to interlibrary loan. So this is just a quick search for essay three and for your annotated bibliography. Let me know if you run into trouble. And good luck.