Consult the Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL) for assistance in formatting papers in the APA style.
Refer to the Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL) for instructions on how to format papers in the MLA style.
Access to the Chicago Style Citation manual online - quick guide and full citation manual.
**Zotero is only one of many citation management software options available.**
Zotero is a free, open-source research tool that helps you collect, organize, and analyze research and share it in a variety of ways. Zotero includes the ability to store author, title, and publication fields and to export that information into a bibliography as formatted references as well as the ability to organize, tag, and search in advanced ways. Zotero interacts seamlessly with online resources: when it senses you are viewing a book, article, or other object on the web, it can automatically extract and save complete bibliographic references. Zotero effortlessly transmits information to and from other web services and applications, and it runs both as a web service and offline on your personal devices.
Quick tips to start using Zotero software
Main website with download link
Abstract – a brief summary of an article or a book.
Article - a story, report, opinion, or paper published in a physical or digital newspaper, journal, magazine, encyclopedia.
Bibliography - A bibliography is a list of all sources used to research a topic. It is usually found at the end of a book or an article.
Boolean Operators – a way of connecting words and phrases to narrow or broaden your search.
AND combines search terms so that both will need to be included. So, Maryland AND colleges will find articles with both those words.
OR will find results that results with at least one of those terms. So your article will have either college or university somewhere within.
NOT will restrict a term. So university NOT Frostburg State will find articles that about universities other than Frostburg State.
Call Number – a combination of letters and numbers for placing and locating physical library items.
Circulation Desk – a place on the main floor of the Ruby E. Dare Library to check out/return items including course reserve materials, pay fines, retrieve interlibrary loan or lost items, and ask questions.
Citation – information that identifies a book or an article. It will usually have a title, author, publisher, and date.
Database - an organized collection of records -Some are subject specific.
Full text – PDF and HTML – different ways to view info online. Usually used for articles within databases, an HTML will give you text that is already formatted for printing. A PDF will open using Adobe Reader and will look like it appears in the original source.
Greenville College Library Catalog - an index of everything the Ruby E. Dare Library owns or subscribes to - books, e-books, DVDs, journals, microfilms, maps, and much more.
I-Share Library Catalog – this expands upon the GU Library Catalog to include resources available at 90 partner libraries vie interlibrary loan.
ILL – Inter Library Loan.
Keywords/subject terms – keywords/ tags are used to find other words or information within a search engine or database. Keywords are good starting points and often lead to subject terms. A subject term is one that has been specifically assigned to a topic.
Periodical/Journal/Magazine/Serial - different names for items that are published on a regular schedule. This may be daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly etc. These contain articles. Magazines, journals, and newspapers are all periodicals or serials, as are yearbooks and annual reviews.
Research guides - Useful webpage compiled by your friendly librarians to help you know where to start searching for subject specific resources for your research paper.
Reserves – these are items that your instructor has placed “on hold” so everyone in the class can have access. Print copies are held at the circulation desk on the main floor of Ruby E. Dare Library.
Scholarly/Peer Reviewed – articles and books reviewed by other subject scholars before being published.
Stacks/shelves – where the physical books in the GU Catalog are located - currently the First Floor of the Ruby E. Dare Library.
Deciding on and /or refining a research topic sometimes takes a bit of research itself. Don't worry if you aren't sure!
The page below offers discipline-specific guidance to reference materials such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, and glossaries. The library staff are happy to help you navigate them or brainstorm with you. Talking it out can be really helpful in defining what it is you want to discover.
Where does information come from? How does it get from Twitter to a newspaper to a scholarly article or published book?
Can I use Google for academic research? YES...if you take the correct steps.
What does it mean for an article to be peer-reviewed? Why do I want to look for peer-reviewed articles?
You can use web-based sources, if you evaluate them and find them credible.
If the full text of a book or article you find isn't available in the database you're using, click on the "Check for Available Services" link. It will either lead you to the full text in another database or give you the option to request the article through interlibrary loan.
If you find article references in places other than a Library database, feel free to email the complete article citation to libgen@greenville.edu to request the article.
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Greenville University is committed to helping students improve writing. The university expects all courses to contain a writing component as part of the evaluation of student progress. We expect students to produce written work that is focused, well developed, organized, and relatively free of grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors. Papers that fall short of this standard will not be accepted; the work will be returned to the
student for revision within a reasonable time. Students on a Christian college campus are expected to do all academic work with integrity. This means that they should practice academic honesty without exception. The university takes this so seriously we ask all incoming students to sign a statement guaranteeing that they understand the notion of academic integrity and will conform to the policies described below.
All forms of academic dishonesty, which include cheating and plagiarism, are inappropriate on our campus. Cheating and plagiarism are variations on a theme: Both involve offering the work of another as one's own. Students cheat and/or plagiarized when they:
(Please note: GU's faculty often encourage students to share their work in progress with others; in fact, the university even pays writing tutors to help students think through revising an assignment. This is simply a good habit for any scholar that we fully endorse. What we don't want students to do is let another person take over and complete an academic task that is their own responsibility.)
This list is not exhaustive but should give a clear idea of what constitutes academic dishonesty. In general terms, academic dishonesty occurs when people knowingly or unknowingly take credit for words or ideas that are not their own in work that is produced for a class, presentation, publication, or other public domain. All forms of cheating and plagiarism involve intellectual theft, and thou shalt not steal!
Students are responsible to use appropriate quotation marks whenever they use words from another source. They must cite sources for ideas that originated with others. They are responsible to learn the specific documentation methods required in their chosen academic disciplines. Whenever they are in doubt about how to cite sources or use others' writings in their own, they should ask a professor.
At GU, academic dishonesty has severe consequences. If instructors discover any instance of cheating or plagiarism, they are well within their rights to assign a failing grade for that assignment or for the course. Furthermore, they must report the student to the department head and the Office of Academic Affairs. This office will forward the information to the appropriate deans. If a second instance of academic dishonesty
occurs, the student will receive a failing grade for the course, and the case will be forwarded to the Vice President of Academic Affairs for review and possible further disciplinary action. A student may be expelled from the institution for repeated or extreme violations of academic integrity. Appeals can be handled through the normal judicial process.
Note from the Center for Teaching and Learning: Recycling previous work—even if it is your own work—is also known as “self-plagiarism.” If you see an opportunity to reuse work you have completed for another class, be sure to get instructor approval before doing so.
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