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Gateway to e-sources from the MCC Library. MCC students can gain access with their MEID log-ins.

Presentation on help researching through the MCC Library. If you're struggling to use these resources, check this out.

The quality information you need for college-level research is easily accessible through the databases of the MCC Library. Please use your MEID and password when logging in from off-campus.

This guide has been designed for MCC students taking English 102. It serves as a starting point for the researched argument paper (wp1 and wp2). Use the tabs at the top of the guide to get started finding, using and evaluating information for your assignments.

Check out this gateway of guides to help you with research. In-particular, check out "Google Searching" and the English 101 Argumentative Essay guide.

CQ Researcher is often the first source that librarians recommend when researchers are seeking original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news. Founded in 1923 as Editorial Research Reports, CQ Researcher is noted for its in-depth, unbiased coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy. Reports are published weekly in print and online 44 times a year by CQ Press, an imprint of SAGE Publications. Each single-themed, 12,000-word report is researched and written by a seasoned journalist. The consistent, reader-friendly organization provides researchers with an introductory overview; background and chronology on the topic; an assessment of the current situation; tables and maps; pro/con statements from representatives of opposing positions; and bibliographies of key sources.

Resource for short clips, documentaries, and other valuable resources to meet content, skill, and performance objective needs.

Academic OneFile is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive.

EBSCOhost is a powerful online reference system accessible via the Internet. It offers a variety of proprietary full text databases and popular databases from leading information providers. The comprehensive databases range from general reference collections to specially designed, subject-specific databases for public, academic, medical, corporate and school libraries.

MLA style is based on the Modern Language Association's MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (available at LB2369 .G53 2009 in the Reference section and circulating stacks at both Red Mountain Library and the Paul A Elsner Library at Southern & Dobson) MLA Style is commonly used in the Arts and Humanities, which is why it is frequently taught in English classes.

This guide provides tips and techniques for searching Google.

Outstanding survey site; useful for building on WGR chapter 5. Also, using this can fulfill primary research requirements for the WP2.

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Valuable tutorial. Check the links on the right side of the page.

YouTube for Schools lets schools access free educational YouTube videos while limiting access to other YouTube content. Students can learn from more than 400,000 educational videos, from well-known organizations like Stanford, PBS and TED, and from up-and-coming YouTube partners with millions of views, like Khan Academy, Steve Spangler Science and numberphile. Schools can also customize their YouTube for Schools experience, adding videos that are only viewable within their school network.

Abstract: This paper examines how teens understand privacy in highly public networked environments like Facebook and Twitter. We describe both teens' practices, their privacy strategies, and the structural conditions in which they are embedded, highlighting the ways in which privacy, as it plays out in everyday life, is related more to agency and the ability to control a social situation than particular properties of information. Finally, we discuss the implications of teens' practices and strategies, revealing the importance of social norms as a regulatory force. (This paper was presented at Oxford Internet Institute's "A Decade in Internet Time: Symposium on the Dynamics of the Internet and Society" on September 22, 2011.) Number of Pages in PDF File: 29 Keywords: Facebook, privacy, youth, teens, social media, ethnography, cultural studies Accepted Paper Series

Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments, too. Users can doodle while commenting, use multiple identities, and pick which comments are shown through moderation. VoiceThreads can even be embedded to show and receive comments on other websites and exported to MP3 players or DVDs to play as archival movies. A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents and videos, and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in five ways: using voice (with mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam).

From author Cara Pring: "We all love statistics, specially when they are about social media. I've made life so much easier by compiling all the statistics I could find over the past month or so in one handy bulleted article..."

"It has taken me just one month to collate another 100 social media statistics from countless (reputable) websites and articles (some of which are listed at the bottom of this article)..."