Resource Search Lab
Goals
- Develop a search strategy
- Organize the results of your search
- Find material for your annotated bibliography
- Connect your ideas with scientific evidence to use in your paper
- Connect ethical issues with scientific evidence
Strategy for collecting resources for research papers
Create folder on the H: drive to store all materials related to the project.
Create a word document to list all of the sources you find and save it in your new folder. This can become your annotated bibliography.
Each entry in the document should include:
- The name of the resource
- A quick note that reminds you of it's relevance to your research question
- The URL
You can also paste any relevant quotes from the source here. This will come in handy when you start composing your paper.
Demonstration of methods for starting a search
While these are not valid sources for an academic paper, they can lead to other, more scholarly sources.
Google or another search engine
Google: "genetic patent"
view article "Genetics and patenting" on ornl.gov
Wikipedia
view Wiki article "Gene patent"
look at references and external links
follow link for the Science article -- if this were my topic I would save it my research folder
at the bottom of this article note the references and outside citations
follow the link to "INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: Patents on Human Genes: An Analysis of Scope and Claims"
Try the PSU Library electronic journals for the article
Now try a search with your research topic
Other places to start your search
Online news articles: Google News is quick. Use LexisNexis for a more comprehesive search of news sources.
Google Scholar
Electonic journals at the Library
Remember, you can easily access your H: drive files off campus by pointing your browser to myfiles.pdx.edu
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