This document provides an overview and instructions for conducting research for a definition essay assignment. It introduces key library resources like databases, the catalog, and interlibrary loan. It explains how to develop a topic, find background information, evaluate sources, and cite references. Step-by-step guides demonstrate searching specific databases and the catalog to locate books and articles, and how to save references to RefWorks. The document aims to equip students with the skills and tools needed to complete thorough research for their definition essay.

1. ENGL 1221
Writing Seminar
Emotions, An
Annotated
Bibliography and Essay

2. Introduction
• Welcome
• Traci Welch Moritz, t-moritz@onu.edu
• Feel free to visit or email
• Reference Desk, reference@onu.edu
• Librarians on duty 8a-4p, 6p-9p Mon –
Thurs, 8a-4p Friday and 10a-3:30p on
Sundays

3. Libraries at ONU
•Taggert Law • Heterick Memorial
Library
Library
•Library for Law
• Undergraduate
school, accessible Library, accessible
to all to all

4. What we’ll do today
• How to use library resources
to do research
• How to construct an
annotated bibliography

5. Annotated Bibliography
• Allows you to see what is out
there
• Helps you narrow your topic and
discard any irrelevant materials
• Aids in developing the thesis
• Makes you a better scholar

6. Definition Essay
• Some say to “write a successful definition
essay you must share all the knowledge
you have obtained on the subject.”
• How do you find all this information?
• Research!
• Barker, Cheryll. "A Brief Guide to Writing Definition Essays." The Online Writing Lab (OWL). Roane
State Community College, n.d. Web. 20 Apr 2011.
<http://www.roanestate.edu/owl/Definition.html>.

7. Research Guide

8. Research Guides

9. Research Guides

10. How to conduct research
STEP 1: IDENTIFY AND DEVELOP YOUR TOPIC
STEP 2: FIND BACKGROUND INFORMATION
STEP 3: FIND INTERNET RESOURCES (if
appropriate for the assignment)
STEP 4: USE DATABASES TO FIND PERIODICAL
ARTICLES
STEP 5: EVALUATE WHAT YOU FIND
STEP 6: PULLING IT ALL TOGETHER
STEP 7: CITE WHAT YOU FIND
Seven Steps of the Research Process
Amended with permission by the Librarians at the Olin and Uris Libraries of Cornell University

11. How to conduct research
• Definitions
– Oxford Reference or any of the
subject specific Oxford reference
books available electronically

12. Research Tools-- POLAR

13. Find a Book -- POLAR

14. Subject Headings

15. • Materials owned by all Ohio colleges, universities,
several public libraries

16. Research Tools ∞ Internet
Google and Wikipedia aren’t evil, just use them
for the correct purpose in your research.

17. Research Tools
Note: If Google Scholar
working off
ONU buys
campus user Full-text
sees only database Google asks
to link to
citation to content
articles not OhioLINK
full text. See Permits
Google to Run Google
Research
link to full-text Scholar
Guide for info Search
on how to set
up off campus ONU user sees
access. licensed full-text
articles

18. Research Tools
• Does the information located satisfy
the research need?
• Is the information factual and
unbiased?
• See handout “Critically Analyzing
Information Sources” under the
“Google Scholar” tab at the Research
Guide.

19. How to conduct research
USE DATABASES 2 FIND ARTICLES

20. • Often tools for locating journal and
newspaper articles
• Most are subject-specific – some
multi-disciplinary
• Many give access to full text of
articles
• Heterick has 250+

21. Find an Article
• Over thousands of journals
indexed, most are full text
• Divided by subject area
offered at ONU
• Begin with a general database,
Academic Search Complete

22. Find an Article

23. • Academic Search Complete

24. Find an Article
You can choose
to limit by date
by sliding the
date bar.

25. Find an Article
You can choose to
narrow by an additional
subject, geographic
location or type of
publication.

26. Find an Article
Click on the pdf or
hmtl link to bring
up the full text of
the article.

27. Find an Article
No html or pdf link?
Always click on the
“FIND IT” button to
find out where else
you can find the
article!

28. Find an Article
• Could be available through another database

29. Find an Article
• It could be available in print
• It could not be available through the library which
would necessitate an ILL request

30. How to find print journals
Click on the link to
the catalog for full
details

31. Locating print journals
Click on Latest
Received to see
the current
locations for
periodicals

32. Locating print journals
• Reserve means the periodical/journal is held at the
front desk.
• Current means the issue is new and is available on
the open shelves beside the computer lab.
• All others are upstairs and arranged alphabetically by
title.
• Bound means it’s out of the building
• Arrived means it’s on the open shelves
• Expected means it’s not here yet

33. Article not available from other source?

34. InterLibrary Loan

35. InterLibrary Loan
• Use when you need a book or article
that is not available online, not owned
by ONU or available via OhioLINK
• No charge/ limit on requests
• Most requests take 5-7 days to fill
• Use ILL form on library web pages.

36. InterLibrary Loan
Fill in the
blanks

37. How to keep track of articles

38. Save, Print, Export

39. Bibliographic Citation Software

40. Manage Information - RefWorks
• Licensed state-wide, access free to
Ohio students for the rest of your
life!
• See “RefWorks” tab at Research Guide
• Excellent Tutorials
• Help available at Heterick

41. Log in to your account

42. Bibliographic Citation Software

43. Subject Specific Databases
• JSTOR : the Scholarly Journal Archive
• Oxford Scholarship
• Search by Subject/Discipline for subject
specific databases
– Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
– SocINDEX with Full Text
– Gender Studies Database
– Religion and Philosophy Collection

44. How to use JSTOR
• JSTOR was founded in 1995 to build trusted digital archives
for scholarship. Today, we enable the scholarly community
to preserve their work and the materials they rely upon,
and to build a common research platform that promotes
the discovery and use of these resources.
• Began adding current issues for some 170+ titles but mostly
consists of back issues
• HML subscribes to the full-text component BUT also shows
links to articles outside the library. You must pay attention
to what you find.
• There is no “FIND IT” button
• Easiest way to work with JSTOR
is to get a free account and go from there.

45. Head right to “Advanced Search”

46. Advanced Searching
You will want to uncheck
the “only content I can
access box and leave the
other checked.

47. JSTOR results list
Still happy
because you
can get
articles just
need to
“click
through”

48. Managing results list in JSTOR

49. Exporting to RefWorks

50. Help
• Reference Librarians on
duty
• 8a-4:30p Mon-Fri
• 6p-9p Mon-Thur
• 10a-3:30p Sundays
Traci Welch Moritz, MLS
Public Services Librarian
Assistant Professor
Heterick Memorial Library
t-moritz@onu.edu
419-772-2473
419-772-2185