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Research ActivityOur goal in class today is to complete three research activities: check out a book from St. Bonaventure’s library, find a source online, and find a source connected to one of these first two sources, either a source cited by it or a source that cites it.Library BooksDo a search in Bonaventure’s book database. Identify at least two books related to your topic for Paper 1 and make note of their call numbers (e.g., E184 .A1 P29 2010 for The History of White People by Neil Irvin Painter). Go find these books in the library stacks. Skim over the introduction to see if the book will be a helpful source for your work on Paper 1. If so, hold onto it and check it out at the front desk before leaving the library.Online SourcesTo find academic sources online, look at a few different databases. Check out JSTOR, Project Muse, and Academic Search Complete on the library’s website and also try Google Scholar. Tracking CitationsYour final challenge in class today is to find another source that is connected to a source you already found through your research. There are two ways you can do this. First, go to Google Scholar and search for a source you already found. If Google Scholar lists the source, it will include a “Cited by X” link. For example, if we search for “Villanueva Maybe a Colony,” we’ll find a listing for the article and a “Cited by 37” link. Click on that link for your source to see what other authors have cited it. Pick one of these new sources that looks relevant to your topic and read through it to see how it draws on your original source.The second approach involves looking at a source cited in a source you have already found. Pick a citation that looks relevant to your topic and try to find it through Google Scholar or Bonaventure’s book database. If you find a copy of the source you can read, look through it to see how it addresses your topic. ................
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