English 161 Research Guide
Welcome to your English 161 Course Guide. Librarians have put this guide together for you to highlight some useful resources for this class. We also encourage you to explore the rest of the library website.
Library Instruction Session
At the end of the session you will be able to:
- Understand the purpose of background sources
- Create an effective keyword search
- Find books and articles using the library databases
Reference Librarian Hours
The reference desk is in the IDEA Commons on the 1st floor of the Daley Library. Reference Librarians are on duty at the following times:
Monday-Thursday: 9am-7pm
Friday: 9am-5pm
The desk is staffed by highly trained graduate students during other times that the library is open.
How Exactly Can Librarians Help Me?
Need help? Feel free to e-mail the librarians who came to your class:
Glenda Insua: ginsua1@uic.edu
Librarians can help with the following research-related activities:
- Narrowing down a topic
- Suggesting resources for finding credible background information on a topic
- Coming up with effective search terms
- Finding books and articles
- Figuring out which research tools are the best fit for your topic (there are over 350 choices!)
- Getting more (and better) search results
- Saving, emailing and printing articles
- Getting books and articles from other libraries
- Creating bibliographies with RefWorks