Choose any three of the six activities below to do; directions for this research journal entry are after Activity 6. (These activities are from Lester and Lester, 2nd edition and 13th edition, various chapters)

  Activity 1: If you are not familiar with the WKU or local college library, visit it and orient yourself to its offerings, especially to the periodicals and the reference section. While there, locate a librarian and share with him/her that you are a student in ENG 300 and would like to be oriented to the offerings in those sections. Librarians are MORE than happy to help you. Also visit the book stacks for your topic of interest. Peruse the catalog and/or the shelves and see what you can find that may be helpful to you. Activity 2: At the KYVL home page, investigate its various options (for College Students, using the drop down menu—you’ll have to log in). Using keywords related to your topic, search for books or articles. Try to find an abstract or a full-text article and print it and email it to yourself for practice. Activity 3: Visit the reference desk at either your college library (preferred) or your local library and ask the librarian for a specialized bibliography on your topic. That is, say something like this, substituting your topic for XXX: “Do you have a specialized bibliography on XXX?” Activity 4: Voice of the Shuttle (http://vos.ucsb.edu) is a large and powerful search engine for educational information. Search for your topic. If you are not successful, use one of the other educational search engines on p. 49 of Lester and Lester. Activity 5: When you have found an Internet article directly devoted to your subject, apply it to the evaluation checklist on p. 44-45 of Lester and Lester. Apply this same test to all Internet articles you plan to use in your paper as you find them. Activity 6: After reading Chapter 6, look carefully at your subject to determine if research outside of the library will be helpful to your paper. If so, what kind of research? Correspondence, local records, the news media, a questionnaire, an observation or experiment? 1. After you have done three of these, write an entry that discusses your results of each of the three and how each will or won’t be useful to your research paper. 2. At the bottom of this writing assignment, include 5 scholarly sources that you have found, read, and are considering using in your paper. Write a correct bibliographic reference for each source in your documentation style and list them in alphabetical order. These sources may or may not be used in your final paper. These 5 sources must be different from any other source you have submitted as a potential source for your paper. Duplication of source entries is plagiarism and will result in a score of zero on this assignment.