Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Materials
● ~25 activity printouts
● Markers
● Whiteboard
● ~25 Corgi sheets
Course Assignment
● Create an annotated bibliography with at least FIVE secondary sources.
Learning Objectives
● Students will understand primary and secondary sources, and scholarly and popular
● Students will generate keywords and construct search strings
● Students will be able to select appropriate search tools (UW Website/Google Scholar,
Academic Search Complete)
Assessment
● What assessment method will you use?
● What are the goals of the assessment? How do they align with learning objectives?
● How will I adapt or make changes as a result of the assessment?
Instruction Plan
● 9:30 - 9:32 Introduction and session goals
● 9:32 - 9:35 What is your assignment? What is a secondary source?
● 9:35 - 9:40 What is a scholarly source? What is a popular source?
● 9:40 - 9:45 Keyword Activity
● 9:50 - 9:55 University of Washington Library (The history of soda)
● 9:55 - 10:00 Google Scholar
● 10:00 - 10:05 Academic Search Complete
● 10:05 - 10:20 Search Time & Corgis
Reflection
● How have I engaged different types of learners?
● What did students take away from this session?
● What was most effective about this session?
● What can I do differently next time I teach this session?
Keyword Development Exercise
Now underline key terms that you think might be good to search with.
1. Try connecting two or three of the concepts in your research question at a time using the
operators below. These strings are what you will use to search databases and some search
engines. (Keep in mind, not all these operators work in every database or search engine.)
2. Remember that most of searching is trial and error – if one attempt doesn’t work, try a different
search string, a different database, or both. (Hint: tweaking your search string is a common fix if
you are receiving too many or too few relevant results.)
Search String 1:
________________________________________________________________________________
Search String 2:
________________________________________________________________________________
Search String 3:
________________________________________________________________________________
ENGL 131
-- Written by journalists/professional
writers
-- Written for a general/broad audience
-- Rarely includes citations
-- Non-technical language
-- Shorter than most scholarly sources
Popular sources can be tricky...
Popular sources can be tricky...
Popular sources can be tricky...
Scholarly Sources vs Popular Sources