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I am working with a student in David Novack's Sociology 280 class on her research for a paper on sexuality/sexual behavior among middle school students.
There is a TON of material on this topic, including a lot of light-weight and/or hysterical drivel, so it is important to focus on the academic literature.
Here is the recommended research guide.
I met with a student who is trying to write two papers for two courses in the same subject area. The specific topic is Japanese "office ladies" (the female equivalent of "salarymen") and, more broadly, the involvement of Japanese women in grassroots political and social activity.
For Sascha Goluboff's Feminist Anthropology course, the emphasis is on the anthropological literature, while the literature of political science and other social sciences is appropriate for Robin Le Blanc's Japanese Political System class.
I am still working on a research guide.
I met with a student who is beginning work on an honors thesis in Journalism on "literary journalism." Her proposal is due within a week, withwork will continue through this summer and most of next year.
Here is our starting-point research guide.
I did a presentation for Erich Uffelman's Bioinorganic class yesterday (Feb 2). They learned the new web version of SciFinder, which was also a bit of training for Erich. I also showed them Scopus: basic searching and author searches, as well as citation searching.
12 students, mostly upperclassmen. Course guide at http://library.wlu.edu/guides/science/chem254.asp and still updating.
Course: INTR 202 Applied Statistics
Presentation date: 2/2/09
Faculty: Cline
Number of students: 22
Librarian: Tombarge
Research guide URL: http://library.wlu.edu/guides/business/intr202.asp
Assignment: Students must come up with a topic and a hypothesis. For this topic they must find one scholarly article and then a source of data to test the hypothesis. The results will then be documented in a paper.
Students in Monica Botta's 20th-Century Spanish-American Theatre have an assignment which involves finding articles within a select group of academic journals (Gestos, Latin American Theatre Review, etc.).
It appears that most, if not all, of these journals are indexed in the MLA International Bibligraphy. Full-text access will involve use of Web Bridge.