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Using Electronic Resources: the Library Catalog and Online Databases
Use the information provided to locate the source. Once you find the source, provide a citation for it in the proper MLA format (that is, as the source would appear in a Works Cited listing).
NOTE: Articles in newspapers, magazines, and journals are commonly referred to as periodicals.
To complete this exercise, you will need to access both the DCCCD Library Catalog and the Online Databases to which the college subscribes. Click the appropriate links here to access each.
Here are the links.
1. DCCCD Library catalog link: https://dcccd.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=01DCCCD_INST:01DCCCD_INST&lang=en&sortby=rank2. Online databases link :
http://libguides.dcccd.edu/az.php
Using the DCCCD Library Catalog, find the following:1. A book about American consumer culture, published in 1999 and written by James Twitchell.
2. A collection of essays about gender and gaming. This book was edited by Yasmin B. Kafai.
3. A book about water, written by Steven Solomon.
4. An essay entitled “One World of Consumers,” written by William Greider. The essay appears in a collection of essays (an anthology) edited by Roger Rosenblatt.
Using the Online Databases listed below and their respective search engine features, find the following sources.
1. In the SIRS Knowledge Source database, find an article discussing the issue of same-sex marriage, written by Andrew Sullivan and published in Newsweek.
2. In the MasterFILE Premier database, find an essay by Jennifer Cognard-Black which was published in a summer issue of Ms. magazine in 2010.
3. In the Humanities Full Text database, find an academic essay on evangelical religion and wrestling, written by Jonathan Ebel and published in 2009.
4. In the Newspaper Source database, find an article discussing hydraulic fracturing in Texas, published in The New York Times in January 2012.
5. In the Academic Search Complete database, find an article about reality television, which was published in Television & New Media and written by John McMurria.
6. In the Academic Search Complete database, locate an article discussing economic inequality, written by Robert Reich, and published in The Progressive.
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Answer
MLA Exercise 2 - Using Electronic Resources
Sources from The DCCCD Library Catalogue
James B. Twitchell, and James B. Twitchell. Lead Us into Temptation: The Triumph of American Materialism. Columbia University Press, 1999.
Kafai, Yasmin B., and Quinn Burke. “Constructionist Gaming: Understanding the Benefits of Making Games for Learning.” Educational Psychologist: Psychological Perspectives on Digital Games and Learning, vol. 50, no. 4, Routledge, Oct. 2015, pp. 313–34, doi:10.1080/00461520.2015.1124022.
Solomon, Steven. Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization . 1st ed., Harper, 2010.
Greider, William. “One World of Consumers.” In the Man in the Water and Other Essays by Rosenblatt, Roger, no. 4, Time, Inc, Jan. 1982.
Sources from Online Databases
Sullivan, Andrew. “Andrew Sullivan. Why Gay Marriage Is Good for Straight America.” Newsweek Publishing LLC, no. 4, July 2011, pp. 12.
Cognard-Black, Jennifer. “The Feminist Food Revolution: From Farms to Community Gardens to Restaurants, Women are Taking Food Back into Their Own Hands.” Ms. Magazine Summer vol. 20, no. 3, 2010, pp. 36–39.
Ebel, Jonathan. “Jesus Freak and the Junkyard Prophet: The School Assembly as Evangelical Revival.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion, vol. 77, no. 1, 2009, pp. 16-54. https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfp008
Galbraith, Kate. “Unlocking the Secrets Behind Hydraulic Fracturing.” The New York Times, 2012.
McMurria, John. "Desperate citizens and good Samaritans: Neoliberalism and makeover reality TV." Television & New Media, vol. 9, no. 4, 2008, pp. 305-332.
Reich, Robert. How to Shrink Inequality. The Progressive, 2014.
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