EDIS 5420 LANGUAGE, LITERACY & CULTURE 

This Course Research Guide is designed to assist you in completing your research assignment for EDIS 5420.  In addition to the  list of materials and tools below that can assist your with your research, the tabbed pages at the top will provide you with additional information.

After your library instruction session, please complete the session evaluation.

Thank you.

Resources and Tools

U.Va. Collab

Print materials helpful in researching topics:

Handbook of Children and the Media
      Education Handbook Area: HQ 784 .T4 H36 2001

Handbook of Computer Games
      Education Handbook Area: GV 1469.i5 .H36 2005

Handbook of Family Literacy 
      Education Reference Area: LC 151 .H33 2004

Handbook of Intercultural Training
      Alderman Stacks: GN 496 .H36 2004

Handbook of Literacy and Technology (volume 1)
International Handbook of Literacy and Technology (volume 2)
      Education Handbook Area: LB 1050 .H278

Handbook of Research in Second Language Teaching and Learning 
      Education Handbook Area: P 118.2 .H359

Handbook of Research on Multicultural Education [2 editions]
      Education Handbook Area: LC 1099.3 .H35   

Handbook of Research On Teaching Literacy Through the Communicative and Visual Arts
      Education Handbook Area: P 91.3 .H36

Handbook of Research on Teaching the English Language Arts (2 editions)
      Education Reference Area: LB 1576 .H234

Handbook of Second Language Acquisition
Ritchie and Bhatia
      Education Handbook Area: P 118.2 .H36 1996

Handbook of Second Language Acquisition                                                                                                                                                             Doughty and Long
      Education Handbook Area: P 118.2 .H363 2003

Handbook of Socialization: Theory and Research
      http://site.ebrary.com/lib/uvalib/Doc?id=10176579

Praeger Handbook of Urban Education (2 volumes)
      Education Handbook Area: LC 5131 .P7  

The Sage Handbook of Child Development, Multiculturalism, and Media
      Biology/Psychology Stacks: HQ 767.9 .A83 2008

Encyclopedia of African-American Education 
      Alderman Stacks: LC 2717 .E53

Encyclopedia of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education 
      Alderman Stacks: LC 3707 .E53 1998                                        

Databases/Indexes useful in searching for articles

           Education Full Text 1983-present  (H.W. Wilson)

           Education Research Complete  (EBSCO)

           ERIC  (CSA version)

           ERIC (EBSCO version)

            Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts   (CSA)

            PsycINFO (EBSCO)

            ScienceDirect

            Sociological Abstracts  (CSA)

            Web of Knowledge / Web of Science (ISI)

Web sites of possible use

 Center for Applied Linguistics

http://www.cal.org/index.html

U.Va. Library Search Tools

VIRGO, U.Va.'s online catalog Use this to fine books, media, or other materials on your topic that are part of the U.Va. Library's collection.

 Journal Finder Use this tool to see if U.Va. provides electronic access to a journal or if it is available in print.

Google Scholar Use this tool to find a copy of an article if you have a citation for the article.

RefWorks

Research Process

Research and Documentation Online by Diana Hacker - An online version of Diana Hacker's wonderful booklet, Research and Documentation in the Electronic Age.  The documentation examples are easy to follow and four different style format sample papers are included.  Be sure to check out the sample MLA paper.

http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/

Definition of primary and secondary sources

http://www.princeton.edu/~refdesk/primary2.html

http://ipr.ues.gseis.ucla.edu/info/definition.html

Definition of peer reviewed/referred journals

http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~estec/tutorials/scholarly.htm

Boolean operators - definition

http://lib.colostate.edu/howto/others/boolean.html

Search strategies-

http://libraries.mit.edu/video.databasetipskeywords/databasetipskeywords.html

Publication Cycle – Effective searches rely on understanding how information is disseminated over time.  The stages of information access are referred to as the publication cycle.  Definition retrieved September 20, 2006 from

http://library.queensu.ca/inforef/instruct/tools.htm  (This link is no longer functioning.)

http://www.uri.edu/library/staff_pages/kinnie/lib120/periodical.html 

 http://www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/study/ir2.html