100 Research Topic Guides for Students

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BARBARA WOOD BORNE is reference and young adult librarian at the Wallingford, Connecticut Public Library, where she developed the prototypes for these research guides to help students with the research process. Before becoming a librarian she was a teacher in New Jersey, Indiana, and Connecticut, and an academic advisor at Michigan State University.

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Hand them this easy-to-use, comprehensive guide to researching 100 popular research papers, and high school students will get off on the right track on their research papers. Designed by a reference and young adult librarian for use in her library, this guide saves both student and librarian time and is a shortcut to effective research. Each photocopyable guide will help the student to locate print and nonprint information about the topic, narrow the scope of the paper, and find related topics. This will reduce student frustration in the research process and introduce the student to the full scope of materials the library has to offer on the topic. Each guide serves not only as a map to library resources but as an outline of library research procedures.

From abortion to youth gangs, the 100 topic guides are organized into sections on science and technology, social issues, social studies, and biography. Each guide contains a capsule description of the topic, call numbers for shelf browsing, subject headings, pamphlet file sources, reference materials, book and CD-ROM periodical indexes, online databases, key words and descriptors to use in searching indexes and databases, a list of videotapes on the topic, fiction relating to the topic, organizations to contact for further information, suggestions for narrowing the topic, and suggestions for related topics. In addition to the guides, an appendix of aids to research will help students with note-taking, bibliographic citations, and electronic database searching. The book is thoroughly indexed for easy access of topic information by students and librarians. Once you use these topic guides you'll wonder how you and your students ever got along without them.

Zusammenfassung
This guide to 100 popular research papers is designed to help the student locate print and non-print information about their chosen topic, narrow the scope of the paper, and find related topics.

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Introduction How to Use This Book Science and Technology Research Topic Guides Acid Rain Alternative Medicine DNA Fingerprinting Earthquakes Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs)--Health Aspects Genetic Engineering Greenhouse Effect Hazardous Wastes The Internet Mysterious Circles and Other Ancient Mysteries Oceanography Ozone Depletion Quarks Rain Forest Destruction Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) Virtual Reality Volcanoes Social Issues Research Topic Guides Abortion Affirmative Action Aging AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Disease Syndrome) Animal Experimentation Assisted Suicide Capital Punishment Censorship Child Abuse Creationism vs. Evolution Cults Drugs and Athletes Eating Disorders Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Gambling: Moral and Ethical Aspects Gays in the Military Generation X Glass Ceiling Gun Control Hate Crimes Home Schooling Homeless Hunting Learning Disabilities Legal Rights of Teenagers Medical Ethics Near-Death Experiences New Age Movement Police Brutality Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Prison Reform Privatization of Schools Psychological Aspects of Advertising Rock Music Lyrics--Moral and Ethical Aspects Sexual Harassment Single-Sex Schools Teenage Pregnancy Teenage Suicide Television and Its Effects on Youth Terrorism Tobacco Industry Vegetarianism Violence in the Schools Welfare Reform Women Clergy Youth Gangs Social Studies Research Topics Assassination of President John F. Kennedy Civil Rights Movement Conclusion of the Cold War Ethnic Conflict The Holocaust Immigration Independent Republics of the Former Soviet Union McCarthy Hearings Peace Corps Persian Gulf War Underground Railroad Vietnam War Watergate Affair Witchcraft in Colonial America Women's Rights Movement Woodstock Festival Biography Research Topic Guides V.C. Andrews Maya Angelou Bob Dylan Bill Gates Stephen Hawking Jimi Hendrix S.E. Hinton Stephen King Madeleine L'Engle John Lennon Andrew Lloyd Webber Toni Morrison Nostradamus Georgia O'Keeffe Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) J.R.R. Tolkien Sojourner Truth Andy Warhol Ryan White Laura Ingalls Wilder Malcolm X Appendix A: Guide to Note-Taking Procedures Appendix B: Guide to Bibliographic Citation Format Appendix C: Guide to Searching Databases Appendix D: Research Topic Guide Template Bibliography Index