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Assignment #1

Review Popular or Scholarly? Evaluating Periodical Literature for a further discussion of the differences between magazines and journals.

Assignment #2

1. Open Expanded Academic ASAP. Complete a subject search on Presidential Election 2000. Identify the first full-text article. Beneath the publication information a link will read: View text and full content retrieval choices. Click on this link to see the complete article.
2. To the left of the screen select the e-mail option and mail this article to your own personal e-mail address. You may also print or download the article to a desk as a text file (filename.txt).
3. Open Newsbank. Complete a subject search on Presidential Election 2000. Beneath the search box, click the circle to return "most recent matches first." By reviewing the headlines, you can review the sequence of events in reverse chronological order. Newsbank is completely full text.
4. Select one of the articles and link to the full-text by clicking the underlined headlined. Click "Text only display." Save the article to disk: insert a disk into the hard drive; click file and save as in the drop-down menu; give the document a filename with a text designation (e.g., filename.txt); then save.
5. Record the citations for each article you selected in full text and send these citations to your instructor. Identify which one was selected from Expanded Academic ASAP and which one was selected from Newsbank.

Assignment #3

Identify a database related to your area of study. Record the following information about the database: years of indexing and general topic information. Review the journal title list for the database. Complete one search in the database and record the information for finding two articles on your topic. Send this information as an e-mail to your instructor.

Assignment #4

Select one of the styles for citing information. Using the articles identified in Assignment #2 for this module, edit the information and create a bibliography to conform to this style. Identify whether the articles are from popular or scholarly sources and write a brief description why. Submit your article descriptions and bibliography as an attachment to your e-mail and send to your instructor.