Geoffrey Greenberg
Marisa Walstrum
Marisa Walstrum
She/her/hers
Contact:
Oakton College Library:
Des Plaines Campus
1600 E. Golf Road
Des Plaines, IL
Skokie Campus
7701 Lincoln Ave.
Skokie, IL 60077
Des Plaines Campus
1600 E. Golf Road
Des Plaines, IL
Skokie Campus
7701 Lincoln Ave.
Skokie, IL 60077
Library Research Workshop Learning Objectives
Library Research Workshop Learning Objectives:
- Access Oakton Library webpage to find background information in order to identify keywords related to your research question.
- Practice searching in Oakton Library's online resources in order to locate required sources to support your research.
- Define scholarly/peer reviewed and primary and secondary sources in order to understand how different types of information can contribute to the research question.
- Identify and use tools in library resources to save, organize and cite sources properly.
Research Paper Assignment
Resources for Finding a Topic
These two library resources are recommended for browsing for current issues based topics. To access these from off campus you will need to login with your Oakton username and password.
- Opposing Viewpoints in Context This link opens in a new windowDatabase of contemporary social issues with content structured to promote critical-thinking skills. It contains reference book titles, pro and con viewpoint articles, and a variety of periodicals, podcasts, reviewed Web links, images, statistical tables, charts, and graphs.
- CQ Researcher This link opens in a new windowEach issue examines a single "hot" topic with comments from experts, lawmakers and citizens on all sides of every issue. Includes charts, graphs and sidebar articles -- plus a pro-con feature, a chronology, lengthy bibliographies and a list of contacts.