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Pan African Studies 098- Basic Writing Skills is a writing skills
course designed for students who score between 141 and 150 on the EPT to
develop skills in the writing of the essay. The course focuses on basic
skills: the sentence, the rhetoric of the paragraph, with some mechanics
and grammar. This course is also designed for the student who anticipates
problems in a college-level composition course, and it is a prerequisite
for PAS 155 for students who are placed in PAS 098. (Cross-listed with AAS,
CHS, and ENGL 098.) (Credit/No Credit Only)
Contact Information | Finding Books | Recommended Databases & Electronic Resources | Internet | Citation Styles | Avoiding Plagiarism
Contact Information
California State University, Northridge
Oviatt Library (http://library.csun.edu)
Librarian
Lynn Lampert (http://library.csun.edu/llampert)
CSUN Pan African Studies Homepage
(http://www.csun.edu/csbs/departments/pan_african_studies/index.html)
Finding Books
Search the 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.
Books may be searched in the Library Catalog by author, title, Library of
Congress Subject Heading, or keywords.
Keyword searching allows the use of Boolean Logic (AND, OR, NOT) and truncation/wildcards
symbols (*, ?, etc.).
For books not held by the Oviatt Library, request an Interlibrary Loan,
but allow about 2 weeks.
Some Subject Headings to consider are:
African Americans
African Americans--Claims
African American Authors
African American Churches
African American Gays
African American Soldiers
African Americans
African Americans--Education (Higher)
African Americans and Mass Media
African Americans--History
African Americans--Civil Rights
African Americans in Medicine
African American Women Authors
Afrocentrism
Blacks
Civil Rights Demonstrations
Civil Rights Movement
Jackson, Jesse
Jazz
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Maroons
Rap Music
Sickle Cell Anemia
Slavery
Slavery--United States
Women In Islam
X, Malcolm
Potential Keywords of interest may include:
african american* newspapers
african american* personal narratives
african american* diaries
african american* correspondence
african american* interviews
More Tips for Locating Books on Pan African Studies
- For information about a person:
* Do a Subject search with the last name first (for example: x, malcolm)
* Do a Author search on the author's name last name first (for example: West, Cornell)
- For books on a country, event or period:
* Do a combined Keyword search (south africa AND apartheid, for example)
- Do a Keyword search (march on washington, for example)
- Do a known Title (The Autobiography of Malcolm X, for example) and click on the Subject headings.
- Do a Subject search (Civil rights -- Alabama -- Montgomery. , for example).
Recommended Databases & Electronic Resources (e-Reference Books)
Below are recommended databases for Pan African Studies. They can be accessed either from Databases A-Z, as well as from the Find Articles and Research Data Pan African Studies at http://library.csun.edu/xerxes/databases/PanAfricanStudies
Black
Studies Center brings together essential historical
and current material for researching the past, present and future of African-Americans,
the wider African Diaspora, and Africa itself. It is comprised of several
cross-searchable component databases
combining several resources for research and teaching in Black Studies:
Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index to Black
Periodicals (IIBP), The Chicago Defender, and the Black Literature
Index
Academic Search Elite. A large interdisciplinary index
and full text database of over 1700 full journals. Journal articles go back
to the early 1990s to the present date.
America History and Life. The premier periodical index for research in U.S. history. It provides citation and abstract indexing for 2400 scholarly journals, review articles and dissertations covering the culture and history of the U.S. and Canada from prehistoric times to the present. It covers publication years 1950s to date. For world history since 1450, use Historical Abstracts.
Historical Abstracts. The premier index for searching modern world history. It provides citation and abstract indexing for over 2000 scholarly journals, books, book reviews, and Ph.D. dissertations covering world history (exclusive of the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present. Coverage: late 1950s to date. For U.S. and Canadian history use America History and Life.
Humanities Abstracts. 1984 to date. A citation and abstract index to over 400 scholarly periodicals in the humanities, including religious studies. From 1974-1984 use the Humanities Index in REF AI 3 I59. For the years 1906-1974 use the International Index in REF A13 I57.
JSTOR. A growing archive of full text core scholarly journals, some going back to the 1850s. Includes selected journals in the areas of: African-American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, history, literature, philosophy, and sociology. Does not contain the latest three years of issues.
Lexis Nexis Academic. Provides full text searchable access to several thousand journals, newspapers, newsletters, newswires, and international publications. Coverage begins around the 1970s to the present. CSULB authentication required.
Project Muse. An online full text access to more than 160 scholarly journals, many in the humanities and social sciences.
Reader's Guide Retrospective. Covers popular magazines from 1890 through 1983. Useful to find contemporary accounts of any event in the 20th Century including religious topics.
Internet
In addition to the databases and Web sites listed above, the Internet can be a valuable source of information. However, remember to think critically about the authority, accuracy, objectivity, currency, and coverage of the information you find.
- Internet Search Engines - (links to favorite search engines of CSUN librarians)
- SearchEngineWatch - (comprehensive directory of search engines by type)
- Evaluating Web Pages - (criteria used to critically evaluate web pages)
Citation Style Guides
Avoiding Plagiarism
Prepared by Lynn Lampert , Pan African Studies Librarian
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