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ENGLISH 101

Amy Dickinson, CSUF English Faculty

Joy Sage, CSUF Librarian                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
 This guide will show you how to:

•  Find Books, both print and ebooks
•  Find Journal and Magazine Articles
•  Avoid Plagiarism
•  Cite Your Sources in MLA format
•  Evaluate Web sources

Places to get assistance:

*Research Center, 1st floor- North Library Building                           

* Make an Appointment   Find your Subject Specialist

Tutoring:

Tutoring is available at the ULC on the 1st floor of the library.

Writing assistance is available at the Writing Center on the 1st floor of the library.

Look for tutoring in your major!  Most majors have tutoring in their areas.

Assignment

You are writing your 2nd essay which will deal with technology and relationships.  Your essay should incorporate at least 3 outside sources.  These sources should meet credibility guidelines, and you should strive to locate these sources from the databases available to you as CSUF students.  This essay should be in MLA format.

You have two prompts to choose from:

1. Which courting/dating practices lead to a more meaningful, clearly-defined relationship: the dating practices of today or the dating practices of the past?
2. The online gaming community is strong. However, this community can often be seen as toxic. Do you believe this community is toxic as a whole? What is the responsibility of gaming creators to monitor and protect this community from this toxicity? Should they be responsible?

Pollak Library’s Spark Tutorials are a collection of interactive tutorials in TITANium that will give you a thorough orientation to Pollak Library. Once you complete all of the tutorials (10-15 minutes each) , you will be familiar with the library’s services and collections, with the basic functions of the library website including how to get started with library research, and how to get help with library research. You earn a digital badge for 100% scores on each tutorial. The Spark Tutorials are closed captioned.

Visit the Spark Tutorials in Titanium.                                        

Spark Tutorial suite includes:

• Pollak Library: Services & Collections
• Pollak Library: Finding Books & Media
• Pollak Library: Finding Articles & Databases
• Pollak Library: Help & Support

Prepare for Fun and Competition!  Enter the Kahoot pin number given by the librarian.