100 Research Topic Guides for Students

by Barbara Borne

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313295522
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	06/10/1996
Series:	Libraries Unlimited Professional Guides in School Librarianship
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)
Lexile:	1650L (what's this?)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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
Sojourbaner 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

Editorial Reviews

Offers high school students listings of resources for finding out more about topics in science and technology, social issues, social studies, and biography. Entries on subjects such as youth gangs, ozone depletion, and the Woodstock festival, and on people including Bill Gates, Jimi Hendrix, and Toni Morrison, offer capsule descriptions of the topic, call numbers for shelf browsing, sources of reference materials, and listings of periodical indexes, online databases, videotapes, and organizations. Appendices offer advice on note- taking, bibliographic citations, and electronic database searching. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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