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This page will appear:

The  Site Map is divided into six important categories
You can see at a glance what aspect of the research appeals to you.

News
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Medical
Reference
Help

Under the category Medical

Click on: Medical News

This page will appear:
 

Step one:   Medical News

Step two:   Medical and Health News

Under step three:
Type:   search terms / keywords

Katrina
Health
Relief Efforts

Under step four
Type:  narrow to a specific date range

Select:  previous year

Click on: search

Results:  151 articles

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Select your articles (I selected the first 10 articles)

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A Box:  Focus appears on the top left hand of the page. It gives directives:  Search within Results

Type:  health care access

Results: 12 articles (of the original 15

1, these 12 articles are more focused on health care access)

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Table of Special Features in Each Data Base

General Writing Aids
A Research Guide for Students: Cited 1May, 2006. <www.aresearchguide.com>
Note:  Comprehensive in approach.

Bartelby.com:Cited 1May, 2006. <http://www.bartleby.com/reference/http://>
Note: Featuring different subject encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri.  Reference search. English Usage, Composition styles. 


Dictionaries: Cited 1 May, 2006. <http://www.bartleby.com/reference/>
Note: Featuring a comprehensive list of dictionaries and writing guides etc.

Dictionary.com: Cited 1May, 2006 <http://dictionary.reference.com/writing/>  
Featuring grammar tutorials and writing styles.

Health Links: University of Washington: Cited 1May, 2006. <http://healthlinks.washington.edu/hsl/styleguides/mla.html>
Note: This page teaches how to create a bibliography, how to cite both print and non print material. from MLA, Chicago/Turabian, APA, APA, NLM,

How to Prepare an Annotated Bibliography: Olin and URIS Libraries, Cornell University Libraries. Cited 1May, 2006.
<http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/research/skill28.htm>

Information and its Counterfeits:  Propaganda, Misinformation and Disinformation.  Cited 1May, 2006.<http://www.library.jhu.edu/
researchhelp/general/evaluating/counterfeit.html>

Instructional Activities by Topic - English Composition. Cited 1May, 2006.<http://www.library.arizona.edu/services/faculty/i
nstruct/topic.html>

Quick Study: APA Library Research Guide; University of Minnesota --Twin Cities.  Cited 1May, 2006.  <http://tutorial.lib.umn.edu/
infomachine.asp?moduleID=10&lessonID=74>

The Owl at Purdue:  Free help in writing, and free resources. Cited 1May, 2006. <http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/>

Instruction: Study Guides, D. Leonard Corgan Library, Wilkes - Barre, PA . Cited 1 May 2006. <http://departments.kings.edu
/library/PDF%20Files/studyguide1.pdf>

Thinking Critically About World Wide Web Resources. Cited 1May, 2006.<http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/
help/critical/>
Note: "The World Wide Web has a lot to offer, but not all sources are equally valuable or reliable."

University of Sydney Library: Citation and Style Guides.  Cited 1May, 2006. <http://www.library.usyd.edu.au/subjects/readyref/citing.html>       

Writing Guide: State University of New York @ Geneseo.  Cited 1May, 2006. <http://writingguide.geneseo.edu/>
Note: Focuses on audience, purpose, organization, lucidity, imagination, and conventions.

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Sterling Catalog

Tips for Citation Building On: Sterling Howard University Library Catalog
Description: The online [public access] catalog of the Howard University Library system. Search for books, journals, videos and other materials in Founders Library, four branch libraries, the Health Sciences Library and the Moorland Spingarn Research Center. [Use Daniel Web to locate materials at the HU Law Library.]

It is recommended that you print this page and follow it as you prepare your citation.

Example:

From the Sterling Home/Access  Page

Click on:  Subject

Type:  Hurricane Katrina

Result Page:  see below

Click on:  Hurricane Katrina 2005

Result:     15  Items

See below:  12 0f 15 items

Click on the first record:  Come Hell or High Water:  Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster

Result:  Book record on Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of disaster

To prepare a citation for  To Hell or High Water in MLA  or  APA Style, the following information  is necessary from the information on the record page

Using the NoodleBib Express page below, create a citation by following the
directions at the bottom of the page.

Click on: NoodleBib Express Home

Directions:

Click on: MLA

Page:  "NoodleBib6"  will appear

from the Dropdown list, go to:  Nonperiodicals

Click on:  Book

Click on: Go

Page: "Adding: Book"

Click on: Book

At the bottom of the page

Click on:  Next

Page: Choice of 3 options: 
Print/ Non print/ Electronic Media

Click on: Print

Click on: Next

Page: "Tell us more about this source. What content are you citing."

Select: The entire book

Click on: Next

Page: "Choices I made so far"

Under: Basic Information -  type all information accurately

Author:  Michael Eric Dyson

Click on: "Add"

Title of Book:  To Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster

Publication City:  New York

Publisher:  Basic Civitas

Publication year:  2006

Since there is no other information to include about this book -

Click on: Generate Citation

The citation in MLA format will appear

Cut and Paste:   Citation into your bibliography as was done below.

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Books:  Example: MLA

Dyson, Michael Eric. Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster. New York: Basic Civitas, c2006.

On Risk and Disaster: Lessons From Hurricane Katrina. Ed. Ronald J Daniels, Donald F Kettl, and Howard Kunreuther. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.

The Editors of Time. Hurricane Katrina: The Storm That Changed America. NewYork: Time Books, 2005. 

Books: Example: APA

Dyson, M. E. (2006). Come Hell of High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster. New York: Basic Civitas.

Daniels, R. J., Kettl, D. F., & Kunreuther, H. (Eds.). (2006). On Risk and Disaster: Lessons From Hurricane Katrina. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

The Editors of Time. (2005). Hurricane Katrina: The storm that changed America. New York: Time Books.

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Audio Recording: MLA

Walker, Alice. Interview with Kay Bonetti. Alice Walker interview with Kay Bonetti. Rec. Mar. 1981. Audiocassette. American Audio Prose Library. Columbia, Mo.

Du Bois, W. E. B. Interview with Moses Asch. W. E. B. Du Bois Interview With Moses Asch. Rec. 1961. Audiocassette. J. Fred MacDonald, 1987.

Morrison, Toni. Interview With Kay Bonetti. Toni Morrison Interview With Kay Bonetti. Rec. 1981. Audiocassette. American Audio Prose Library.

Audio Recording: APA

Walker, A., & Bonetti, K. (Speakers). (1981). Alice Walker interview with Kay Bonetti (Cassette Recording). American Audio Prose Library. Columbia Mo. USA

Du Bois, W. E. B. (Speaker). (1961). W.E.B. Du Bois: A Recorded Interview (Cassette Recording ). J. Fred MacDonald: 1987.

Morrison, T. (Speaker). (1981). Toni Morrison Interview With Kay Bonetti (Cassette Recording). American Audio Prose Library.  Columbia, MO. USA.

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Films: MLA

Eko, Lyombe, dir. African Art and Women Artists. 1990. Alt. authors: Orchardson-Mazrui, Elizabeth. Union of National Radio and Television Organizations of Africa: Program Exchange Centre. Peter Karanja Editor.  VideoTape. Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 1993.

Camp, Joseph, Ronald Bailey, and Robert Schurgin, prods. Affirmative Action: the History of an Idea. Ben J Wattenbert, Host.  Ward Connerly,  Dorn Edwin, Hugh Davis Graham et. al. perfs. 1996. Video recording. Films for the Humanities, Princeton, NJ, 1996.

Williams, Fred, Richard Pryor, and James Brown, perf. Adios Amigo. 1976. Video Tape. Burbank Video, Hollywood Select Video, 1989. Presented by: Falmouth Productions, Burbank, CA 1989.

Films: APA

Orchardson-Mazrui, E., Artist (Producer), Karanja, P., (Editor) , & Eko, L., (Director) . (1993). African Art and Women Artists [Video Tape]. Kenya: Films for the Humanities & Sciences. Union of National Radio and Television Organizations of Africa, Program Exchange Center.

Camp, J., Bailey, R., & Schurgin, R. (Producers), & Wattenbert, B. J. (Director). (1996). Affirmative action: The History of an Idea [Video Recording]. Princeton N.J: Films for the Humanities.

Falmouth Productions, (Producers),  Williams, F.,  Pryor, R., & Brown, J., (performers),  (1976). Adios Amigo [Motion picture]. USA:

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Table of Special Features in Each Database

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