History: Great Issues - Muckraking (Jacobs)

LS Library Databases

Encyclopedia Britannica

  • Lead Paint

  • Seat Belts

  • Coca-Cola Ingredients

  • Meat Processing

  • Mercury Poisoning (Hats)

  • Voting Age (26th Amendment)

DATABASE ARTICLES (BY TOPIC)

CITATION

CITATION GENERATORS

MyBib

NoodleTools (also notecards, auto-generated Works Cited)

[NOTE: Databases provide you with citations, so you do not need to use a citation generator to cite database articles.]


SCRAP Test

  • Check the websites you use with the SCRAP Test

  • Focus on AUTHORITY and PURPOSE


QUICK IN-CLASS ACTIVITY:

Look at these websites and answer the two questions below:

AUTHORITATIVE

What are the publisher’s qualifications? (Check “ABOUT” or similar link.)

PURPOSE

What is the purpose: To inform, persuade, entertain, or sell?

RESEARCH TIMESAVERS

Search Tips:

  • Use CTRL+F (COMMAND+F on Apple Computers) to find your topic in an article.

  • In a Google search, try adding words to make your search more specific. For example:

      • Traffic sign history

      • Traffic sign law

Citation Tips:

  • After selecting an article or website, immediately add its citation to your WORKS CITED document.

  • In databases, the citation is always at the end of the article. (You can copy and paste it or export it to NoodleTools.)