ENGL 2716 / LING 2716 (Shport)
This guide has some suggestions to help you with your mini-project assignment!
- News Sources
- Background Resources
- Evaluation Tool 1: ACT UP Method
- Evaluation Tool 2: SIFT Method
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Google Search Tips
Google is an incredible tool - librarians use it all the time! But librarians know how to search Google in a way that cuts out a lot of extraneous information and sites, making our searches better and more effecient. The tips below are ways in which we search for information via Google. It's good to start your search knowing what type of information you're looking for and use these search strings to help you find it in a more time efficient way!
Here are three tips that can help your search:
- Use quotation marks to keep words together in your search "haunted cemetery" (Google automatically assumes an AND between each search term that you type in without using quotation marks)
- Use site to search specific types of site domains site:gov or site:edu
- Use filetype to find specific formats, filetype:pdf or filetype:ppt or filetype:xls
OR you can follow the link below to the advanced Google search option that opens up a whole WORLD of online searching:
News Aggregators
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Access World News This link opens in a new windowAccess World News is a comprehensive resource that includes a variety of news publications worldwide. These sources include major national and international newspapers, as well as local and regional titles as well as newswires, blogs, web-only content, videos, journals, magazines, transcripts and more.
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Newspaper Source Plus This link opens in a new windowNewspaper Source Plus provides a full-text digital collection of the world's major news content. It includes millions of articles from newspapers, newswires and news magazines. In addition, it offers television and radio transcripts and ongoing daily updates from popular news sources. Includes more than 1,200 full-text newspapers and 150 newswires.
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Nexis Uni This link opens in a new windowOffers full-text online news, business, legal, legislative, and regulatory information, updated daily.
Suggested Magazines & Newspapers (Popular Sources)
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New York Times This link opens in a new windowHow to Activate an LSU New York Times Account
1. Select the link above
2. Select from the search Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College - Baton Rouge, LA
3. Enter all of the requested information and use your LSU email on the registration form and click Sign Up.
4. Once you create your log-in credentials, you will be able to log in using nytimes.com where access is unlimited.
5. Faculty and staff must register every four years. Student access reflects the estimated graduation date.
LSU's access includes New York Times InEducation which provides curated reading lists across several disciplines of study. To access the InEducation tool, users must activate their News subscription and log in using the same account information.
Funding for LSU's New York Times access was provided by LSU Student Government and LSU Libraries. -
Wall Street Journal + This link opens in a new windowLSU Libraries is excited to announce that The Wall Street Journals premium digital products including WSJ online and smartphone and tablet apps are now available to all students and faculty. For over a century, WSJ has sustained a legacy of journalistic excellence and is the #1 most trusted newspaper for the 27th consecutive year, according to the Pew Research Center.
All users will need to create a WSJ+ account.
Remote PC/Mobile access:
1. Click on the WSJ+ link
2. Login to MyLSU
3. Create a WSJ+ account using your LSU email address
4. Select account type
5. Set up account preferences
6. Agree to terms and click create
7. Your personal WSJ+ login and password are now active. Access is available through the WSJ app or at WSJ.com.
8. Note that WSJ+ accounts that are inactive for 90 days expire. Expired accounts can be reactivated at LSU's WSJ+ page.
Funding for LSU's Wall Street Journal access was provided by LSU Student Government and LSU Libraries
PLEASE NOTE: The links above are just additional suggestions to those already suggested in your assignment.
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