By the end of today’s Library session, you will be able to:
As a group, take a look at your assigned source and discuss the following questions for the next 5 minutes.
Group 1. Senses and Sensibility in Byzantium
Group 2. Hagia Sophia
Group 3. Hagia Sophia
Group 4. Hagia Sophia Becomes a Mosque – What You Need to Know
Group 5. Byzantium in Dialogue with the Mediterranean: History and Heritage
Stray cat enjoying a moment of fame inside the Hagia Sophia. Photo by Cari.
Using the search tool of your choice, locate 1 scholarly peer reviewed article and 1 scholarly book that could be used in an essay about the hummingbird geoglyph in Peru (see below). You are interested in learning more about what it may have meant to the people who created it.
Cari will be asking for volunteers to share their strategies for finding resources with the larger group.
1. What tool(s) did you use to find your article or book? (e.g. LibrarySearch, Google Scholar, etc)
2. What search words were effective?
Photo by Diego Delso, CC-BY-SA 4.0
When assessing the quality of a source, here are some questions to consider:
For both your Short Essay and Final Essay, you are required to find a certain number of academic sources.
What would be considered an "academic source" by your professor for these assignments?
Yes, Google does article searches! Go in through this link and find out what Google Scholar has that you can get full-text through our library.
You can search our article databases (collections of journal, newspaper and magazine articles). If the article is not in the database, click on the "Look for a Copy" link.
MRU has prepared handy citation guides that summarize how to create notes and bibliographies for the styles like Chicago and MLA. Near the end of each guide are examples of how to cite different types of resources, which can give you a useful template.
