Assignment 8: The Personal Editing Checklist and The Library Research Tutorial
EngC 1011 University Writing and Critical Reading
Kevin L. Callahan
Writing Instructor
call0031@tc.umn.edu
(612) 623-7685
Educational Goals:
One of your goals in this class should be to improve your ability to self-edit your own writing and to be able to identify more errors and potential problems. This writing assignment is designed to motivate you to start your own personal editing checklist that should assist you to spot errors in the future. The goal is not only to be able to identify what the errors are but also to be able to identify where in the Longman Handbook a clear statement of the rule can be found so that they can be corrected. The Library Research Tutorial is a self-directed tutorial that is designed to allow you to learn how to find materials in the U of M library system.
Instructions:
(10 points) Compile a list of ten things that you need to be especially aware of to look for in your own writing when you are self-editing. Be specific. These should be ordered from your most common to your least common errors. This may include commonly misspelled words that you are having trouble with or comma placement, etc. This list should be drawn from editors comments during the peer review workshops, instructor's comments on returned papers, and your own awareness of commonly made errors you tend to make.
(10 points) For each error: 1) clearly state the specific rule you are violating e.g. "I tend to forget to put a comma before the conjunction when joining two independent phrases," and 2) the page in the Longman Handbook where the error is described or addressed e.g. "This punctuation rule appears on page 464."
(20 points) Complete The Library Research Tutorial at home or in a computer lab and email the results to your instructor.
Number of course points:
The Personal Editing Checklist (20 points)
The Library Research Tutorial (20 points)
DUE DATE:
Assigned: February 27th
First Draft: March 6th
Final Draft: March 13th
How to find books, journal articles, and reference materials at the library.
A computer based tutorial on library research.
This tutorial is designed to familiarize you with the U of M Library's webpage and doing library research. This will allow you to find the call numbers and location of books, articles, and reference materials in the library system. Please contact the instructor if you have a question or are having any problems completing any of the steps as you go through this. You may work together with other members of the class on the tutorial but each of you must submit your own individual research results.
Part I. Finding books and journal articles.
1. Turn on your computer and double click on the Netscape (or Internet Explorer) icon on your computer's "desktop."
2. Type in the following web address in the "location" window at the top of your browser and then hit "return." This will bring you to the class website.
http://www.oocities.org/kevinlcallahan/composition.html
3. Scroll down and press the "library" link (or button) on the left side of the webpage in the gray area. This will bring you to the library's main page (http://www.lib.umn.edu).
4. Click on the first link called "Books and More." This will bring you to the search window to find books and their library call numbers (the numbers or letters they are filed by). When you actually go to the library remember that books are shelved beginning with letters and also numbers depending on if the book is filed in the Dewey Decimal System or the Library of Congress system. That will determine what floor you look on.
5. Type in the book title "Fire in the Brain" and hit the "GO" button. Write down the call number and the status i.e. if it is available or checked out or lost.
6. Hit "Save." The computer will thus start to keep a running list of books you are interested in and you can e-mail this information to yourself and your writing instructor.
7. Click the "New Search" button on the top of the page.
8. Type in the author's name "Siegel Ronald K." (Use no commas and double check the spelling of his name). Change the gray box or pulldown menu to "Author (last name first)" and hit the "Search" button.
9. Click "Save" on
"Hallucinations: behavior, experience, and theory"
and
"Intoxication life in pursuit of artificial paradise"
10. Click on the "New Search" button.
11. Click on the green "Advanced" button. This will bring up the advanced search window instead of the basic one.
12. Type in the first box: "Harner Michael"
13. Type in the second box: "hallucinogens" and hit the search button.
14. Click the "Save" button.
15. Click on the green title "Hallucinogens and Shamanism" Edited by Michael Harner.
Scroll down the screen. What library is the book available at? (Magrath library is on the St. Paul campus. Your instructor has the Wilson library book checked out.)
16. Click the green "View Saved" button. This lets you view what you have saved so far.
17. Click the purple "Email" button.
18. Type in your "Email address, Subject, and Name" and hit the GO button. This will email your search to yourself. Type in your instructor's email address (call0031@tc.umn.edu) and email him with this information. (This assumes that computer lab computers are set up to send email from within the Netscape or Internet Explorer browser, which they may not be. This varies with the lab you are working in. If they are not, you could go up to the "Edit" pulldown at the top of your computer screen and copy the information, open your email program, and paste it into a personal popmail or hotmail email message.)
19.Go to the bottom of the page and click on: "U of M Library Home Pages for the Twin Cities."
20. Click on the "Article Indexes" which is the second link.
21. Scroll down the webpage until you find "General Indexes" and click the link. If you are working at home you will have to log into certain library indexes (the University pays a fee for them). If you are working on a computer in a computer lab you do not have to type in your ID information and can bypass this step. If you must "log in" then just type in your internet ID (e.g. "call0031") and Password and click "GO."
22. Scroll down the webpage and click on: "Connect" Expanded Academic Index. There are many journal indexes but this is a good one to start your research in. Notice how far back in years it goes. Does it index the 1977 Scientific American article by Ronald Siegel?
23. If prompted, type in your internet ID (e.g. "call0031") and Password and click "GO." (You may not need to do this if working in a computer lab.)
24. Click on the Advanced Search button on the left side of the screen.
25. Type in Siegel Ronald K. and hit "Search."
26. Scroll down to the very bottom and click the "mark" button to "Hostage Hallucinations" to give it a checkmark and any other articles that you think look interesting. Click "extended citation and retrieval choices."
27. Click "View Mark List." This is in the blue area on the left side of the web page.
28. Fill in your Email address. Send yourself an email with your list.
29. Go down to the bottom and click the "Library Main Page-Twin Cities Link."
30. This will return you to the main library webpage.
Part II. Beginning your research with general references
e.g. encyclopedias and "Research Quickstart"
31. Move down the list of links.
32. Click on the "Research Guides" link on the main page (3rd link down).
33. Click on "Research Quicklist."
34. Click on "Anthropology" and "Submit."
35. Click on "Social Sciences Abstracts."
36. Fill in your Internet ID and Password and click GO.
37. Fill in under the "Search For" box the word "hallucination" and click "Search." (Note: If 25 people in a computer lab all did this simultaneously you would get a red warning sentence that the database is overloading and it will send you to a webpage with a list of other indexes. Hit your back button, wait for a couple of minutes and proceed to the next step.)
38. Click on the box to make a checkmark next to "Mechanisms of hallucination"- (Number 5).
39. Click on the underlined link "Mechanisms of hallucination"
40. Read the source of the article then scroll down and click "Hallucinations and illusions."
41. Click on the box to make a checkmark for article no. 10 "Hallucinations in nonpsychotic children: more common than we think?" Then click the underlined article title.
42. Read the Abstract. Joan of Arc was about 12 years old with her first vision and 16 years old when she led French forces in battle. Would this be a good article to read?
43. Go to the email button at the bottom of the page. Send yourself the reference.
44. Click the Libraries icon (link) at the bottom of the page.
45. Which library at the University of Minnesota has it? (Bio Med Library).
46. Click on the "Go" pulldown at the very top of your computer screen (it is in the line above the word "Netscape") and highlight "University of Minnesota Libraries."
47. Type in the top "location" window of the Netscape browser the libraries Main Page web address (http://www.lib.umn.edu/). Hit enter.
48. You should now be at the main library page again.
49. Click on the "Reference sources."
50. Click on the "Health Sciences" link.
51. Click on "Medline Plus"
52. Click on "Dictionaries." This will give you a medical dictionary to look up vocabulary words you may encounter in your research..
53. Hit your gray "Back" button 3 times to return to the Reference Sources webpage.
54. Click on "Encyclopedias."
55. Click on "Britannica.com"
56. Type in "Joan of Arc" and hit "Search." What was Joan of Arc's real name? (Joan La Pucelle).
57. Click "Joan of Arc, Saint."
58. Notice the "Email this article" option, then scroll to the bottom of the pageand click "Bibliography. " Note the annotated bibliography.
59. Click the "Go" pulldown at the very top of the computer screen and select "University of Minnesota Libraries." This will return you to the main library webpage.
60. Click the gray "Choose a campus Library or Collection" and choose "Bio-Medical Library." Click the "GO" button. Click "General Library Information."
61. Click "Directions to the Bio-Medical Library." What building is it in? (Diehl Hall).
62. Click on the "Buildings maps" link in the first paragraph.
63. Scroll down and highlight Diehl Hall with your cursor and click on it.
64. What bank is it on?
65. What buildings is it near? (Moos Tower, etc.)
66. Click the Go pulldown and go back to the Univ.of MN libraries webpage. Congratulations! You have completed the tutorial.
Tutorial Assignment (20 points): Find at least 2 books and 2 journal articles on the topic of "hallucinations." Email yourself with your research results and then email your instructor at call0031@tc.umn.edu with your research results.