Contra Costa College Social Sciences 1

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http://www.contracosta.edu/lor/library/

Choosing a topic and developing terms

Write a sentence about your paper topic (example: New Yorks stop and frisk program is discriminatory and ineffective.)

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Now break that topic into search terms and think of synonyms (example: stop and frisk, racial profiling, police, law enforcement, crime prevention, etc.)

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http://socialsciences1.weebly.com/ For more resources,
including tips on finding a topic, appropriate databases (where you find articles) for this assignment, and how to cite your sources.

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Contra Costa College Social Sciences 1 SEARCHING THE LIBRARY CATALOG (BOOKS, DVDS, VHS, etc)
Note the campus

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Note the call number Note the availability

To find more books with this subject, click on the blue subject

ARTICLE DATABASES (Scholarly Articles, Newspapers, etc)

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Type your search terms here Email the article by clicking here

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Find similar articles by clicking there

Generate a citation by clicking here