UU100: Communication & Information Literacy

TOPIC 9: IN-LAB ACTIVITIES SEARCHING DATABASES AND MANAGING REFERENCES

UU100: Topic 9: Searching Databases and Managing References

All the answers for the In-Lab activity (TASK 1 & TASK 2) for the questions below will be checked in your Week 11 F2F Lab Class. TASK 1: Searching for and retrieving articles using ProQuest Database; importing references from ProQuest database into EndNote.

This activity is based on the topic given below: Topic: The avoid-ability of head and neck injuries in RUGBY: Should players wear head gear? 1. Develop search strategies and conduct an advanced ProQuest search to locate three relevant scholarly journal articles. Discuss your search strategies in a MS Word Document to show to your Lab Tutor in Week 11 F2F Class.

2. Email one of the three articles in pdf format to your student email account. Login to your student email account and check if you have received the article that you had emailed to yourself.

3. Import the records of the three journal articles from ProQuest to EndNote (refer to EndNote PowerPoint Guide 5: Downloading citations from ProQuest).

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UU100: Topic 9: Searching Databases and Managing References

TASK 2: Creating groups for the references in EndNote; formatting the references using a selected citation style and exporting references into Word.
You will be required to create references manually for the following information resources (refer to EndNote Guide 2: EndNote: Creating References Manually).

A. Type of information resource: Edited book a. Joey F. George (ed.) b. 2004 c. Computers in society: Privacy, ethics, and the Internet d. Upper Saddle River, NJ e. Pearson Prentice Hall B. Type of information resource: Book Chapter a. O'Neil, J. M., & Egan, J. b. 1992 c. Men's and women's gender role journeys: metaphor for healing, transition, and transformation d. B. R. Wainrib (Ed.) e. Gender issues across the life cycle f. pp. 107-123 g. New York, NY h. Springer C. Type of information resource: Web page a. Sherman, Chris. b. Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About URL c. SearchEngineWatch d. 24 Aug. 2004 e. f. 4 Sept. 2004 http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php /3398511

Editor Year of publication Title of book Place of publication Publisher

Authors of the chapter Year of publication Title of the book chapter Editor of the book Title of the book Page numbers Place of publication Publisher

Author Title of Web Page Title of the Site Date/Version Number Date of Access URL

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Create a new group and name the group Week 10. Add the three references that you had manually created above to this group (refer to EndNote PowerPoint Guide 3: Creating Groups). Format and export your citations in APA citation style. Save the reference list as RTF in WORD (refer to EndNote PowerPoint Guide 4: Formatting References using Citation Style).

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All the answers for the In-Lab activities (TASK 1 & TASK 2) for the questions above will be checked in your Week 11 F2F Lab Class.

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