Research Projects for College Students: What to Write Across the Curriculum

by Marilyn Lutzker

Overview

This book helps college instructors in all disciplines design library research projects that students will enjoy writing, and faculty will enjoy reading. It is a librarian's contribution to the literature of the Writing Across the Curriculum movement. The ideas and techniques presented are offered not as prescriptions, but as starting points for the construction of projects to meet the needs and use the resources of a wide range of curricula, students, faculty, and libraries. The book helps instructors desing appropriate undergraduate library research projects with specific practical suggestions for selecting and assigning topics and for fully utilizing available library resources. The author also suggests meaningful ways to teach scholarly documentation, and to design plagiarism-proof assignments. Appendices include tips for grading research papers, sample research worksheets, and a sample selection of topics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313251498
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	07/28/1988
Pages:	152
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.44(d)

About the Author

MARILYN LUTZKER, Professor in the Library at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Objectives for Research Assignments
Structuring the Assignment and Choosing the Topic
The Library Connection
Teaching Scholarly Documentation
The Undergraduate Researcher and Primary Sources
Primary Sources: Newspapers and Magazines of the 19th and Early 20th Centuries: Archives, Annual Reports, Collections, Statistical Sources, Slave Narratives
Legal Sources
Biographical Sources
Visual Sources
Presenting the Research: A Variety of Formats for Undergraduate Writers
Appendix A: A Selection of Topics: Headline Events of the 19th Century; Headline Events of the 20th Century; Subjects for Biographical Research
Appendix B: Periodicals Indexes in the Nineteenth Century Century Reader's Guide which are part of the American Periodicals Series
Appendix C: Selected Special Interest Periodicals Which Are Included in the American Periodicals Series
Appendix D: Sample Research Worksheets
Appendix E: Tips for Easier Grading of Student Research, by Shirley Schnitzer and Patricia Licklider
Indexes