General Education: EOP 100

The 6 Steps for Starting Your Research:

1. Define your topic – What is it that you want to write about? What information do you know?
2. Develop a search strategy – Pick out the main keywords/concepts that define your topic by using Boolean searching:

AND – learning styles AND African-American [narrows a search]

OR – learning styles  or cognitive styles [broadens a search]

TRUNCATION * [broadens a search]

Learn* retrieves learner, learners, learning

PHRASE SEARCHING – looks for words in a specific order i.e., “African-American”

3. Find and review books  - Search for books + encyclopedias  in OneSearch
4. Find and review scholarly articles – Search for articles in a research database such as ERIC, Academic Search Complete
5. Evaluate what you find 
6. Cite your sources – Use the Citing/Writing tab in the research guide  

Start searching in the databases below:

Below are some print and online resources found at the CSULB Library. 

Some Reference Sources:

Occupational Outlook Handbook

1st Floor Reference  HF5381.A1 O36 2010-11 

Job Choices for Business & Liberal Arts Students

Some Online Resources:

Click the link to locate Library resources for career and jobs

Some Biography Reference Sources:

Current Biography - Index in back covers years in current decade.

 2nd Floor Stacks  CT100 .C8  1940 - 2011

American National Biography -24-volume set including 400 biographies, primarily of people who died between 1996 and early 2001.

Some Online Databases/ Resources:

Click the link to locate Library resources for Biographies