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Library Resources for English 097
Oviatt Library Home page: http://library.csun.edu
Eric P. Garcia ( http://library.csun.edu/egarcia)
“Nickel and Dimed: on (not) getting by in America” is a story of Barbara Ehrenreich and her attempt to live as an “unskilled” working class person. Critically examine the theme in the book and describe how she has developed that theme.
Truncation
This is the process of omission of one or more unaccented syllables at the beginning or the end of a line of verse. Most databases allow for a symbol to be used at the end of a word to retrieve variant endings of that word. For example,
- giggl* will retrieve giggle or giggled or giggling or giggler or gigglingly or giggles, etc.
Books
Library Catalog - for books, videos, and archival materials that will help you identify informative and persuasive topics. Use the KEYWORD search if you aren't sure of the official Subject Headings for your topic.
Subject Headings - examples that may work for your topics in this class:
- Living wage movement.
- Living wage movement -- United States.
- Minimum wage -- United States.
- Public contracts -- United States.
- Wages -- Law and legislation -- United States.
- Cost and standard of living -- United States.
- Households -- United States.
- Income -- United States.
- Poverty -- United States.
- Family policy -- United States.
- Wages -- United States -- History.
- Skilled labor -- United States -- History.
Keywords - examples that may work for your topics in this class:
- Living wage
- Living standard
- Poverty and income and family
- Poverty and income and United States
- Poverty and income and Los Angeles
- Poverty and wages
- Wages and Wal-Mart
- Poor and employment
- Restaurant* and wage*
- retail and wage*
Book Titles - The Oviatt Library has books that discusses living wages and affects on low-income families:
Neumark, David.
How living wage laws affect low-wage workers and low-income families. San Francisco, Calif. : Public Policy Institute of California, 2002.
Floor2 HD4973 .N48 2002
Madjd-Sadjadi, Zagros.
Living wages : the issues and the impact. [San Francisco, Calif.] : Division of Labor Statistics and Research, [2001].
Floor2 HD4919 .C2M333 2001
Journal Articles
Databases A-Z - the Oviatt Library has over 100 databases. To look for articales in journals, newspapers, or magazines, you will need to start with a research database. The following databases provide abstracts and full-text articals from thousands of journals and other sources.
Academic Search Elite (EbscoHost)
index of articles from the contents pages of over 22,000 journals, 1990-
JStor Arts & Sciences, General Science Collections (Archival)
a reliable and comprehensive archive of important scholarly journal literature.
ERIC on EbscoHost (Educational Resources Information Center)
Use ERIC on EbscoHost
LexisNexis Academic
full text news, medical, legal & business sources; dates vary.
Project MUSE
over 167 full-text titles of scholarl journals in the humanities, social sciences and mathematics from over 20 not-for-profit scholarly presses.
ProQuest Newspapers
full text newspapers.
Wilson OmniFile Full Text Mega (WilsonWeb)
Cross-searching of Education Index with Full Text, General Science Index with Full Text, Humanities Abstracts with Full Text, Readers' Guide Retrospective and Reader's Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Index with Full Text, Business Index with Full Text, Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Art Full Text, Biological & Agricultural Index Plus, Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text, Library Literature & Information Science Full Text.
Internet sites
Be cautious when using information you find on web sites that you located by searching Google, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, Vivisimo, etc. Anyone can make a web page and the information may not be reliable or accurate.
The following are corporations that were identified or labeled as a group within the book "Nickel and Dimed." In farness, a rebuttal or company policy statement in regards to employment practices may be found on each companies webpage.
Wal-Mart, K-Mart, Target, McDonalds, Jack in the Box
Plagiarism and MLA/APA citation style
Remember to cite not only direct quotes, but also other people's ideas. If you paraphrase something, changing a few words to make it sound less like a direct quote, you still have to cite it. If you are uncertain, it is better to cite a source than to be accused of plagiarism for not citing something you should have.
Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2003.
Reserve Room LB2369 .G53 2003
Reference Room LB2369 .G53 2003
Floor2 LB2369 .G53 2003
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association, 2001.
Reference Room BF76.7 .P83 2001
Reserve Desk BF76.7 .P83 2001
Floor2 BF76.7 .P83 2001
Contact Information
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