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How Not to Stress About Writing
What is My Professor Looking For?
Where Can I Go to Get Resources?
How to get a handle on the big picture
Proofreading for yourself
Documentation styles
How to Avoid Plagiarism
Twenty Questions for Research Writing
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Writing Handbook
Where Can I Go to Get Resources
The Library
Go to the Reference Desk for help or to make an appointment for
a Reference Consultation.
The Library Web Page
(http://www.macalester.edu/library)
Access to all books and journals in the Mac library and other local
colleges
- How? Choose CLICnet, the library’s catalog, and type in
your search. If the book is at another college you can request
to have it brought here for free. Otherwise, go to the library
and check it out! Journals, magazines, and some texts must remain
in the library, but feel free to read them there or make photocopies.
- Search catalogs other than CLICnet by choosing Catalogs. Try
using MnCat, the University of Minnesota’s catalog. You can
request books from the University by using the interlibrary loan
(ILL) forms on the library web pages.
- Online Indexes - Search thousands of articles from every discipline
- How? Choose Online Indexes from the library web page.
- Many are full text and ready to print, some are abstracts or
citations only,
but often a hard copy of the journal is available in the library.
Use the ILL
for those not available in the library.
Journals - Online and Microfilm
- How? Choose Journals from the library web page. This page will
tell you
which journals are available full text online, in print, or in
microformat.
Microfilm and microfiche viewers are in the library basement.
- Use Interlibrary Loan (ILL) for articles from journals not available
at
Macalester. ILL forms are on the library web page.
- Archives/Rare Books
- Information is available about how to access the rare book room
and the
college archive (information specifically about Macalester).
Ebooks
- How? Choose Ebooks from the library web page. Ebooks may be
browsed
for 15 minutes or “checked out” for 4 hours through
an account that you
create.
Research Guides
- How? Choose any heading under “Research Guides” from
the library web
page. Course-specific guides are archived for one year on the
site.
- A variety of recommended books and references are offered.
RefWorks
Lester
- How? From the Macalester home page, follow the Information Services
link, then the Lester link.
The Humanities Resource Center
(First Floor Hum. Building x6336)
- Has equipment for audiocassettes, videotape and DVD viewing
in domestic and international formats, laserdisc viewing and foreign
language word processing (including Russian, Hebrew, Arabic, and
Japanese with spell checkers in French, German, Portuguese and
Spanish).
- All audio and video materials for language classes are available
for use in them HRC. Macintosh computers have specialized computer
programs for foreign language learning (vocabulary, grammar and
culture) and music (ear training, theory and composition). There
are also piano keyboards and Finale for music composition.
- The HRC provides SCOLA, a 24-hour international news service,
to the campus cable network. It is available across campus on
channel 14.
- A public digitizing area is available to allow the user to digitize
and edit audio and video from several sources, scan printed images
and 35mm slides, and perform OCR operations on scanned text. Color
print options are available.
Media Services
(Fourth Floor Hum. Building x6377)
- Video Collection
- Extensive collection of over 3,000 titles, with access to the
media holdings of other area colleges. Videos are available to
view at Media Services for free or to check out with faculty permission.
All videos are listed in CLICnet and there is a title list on
the Media Services web page.
- A collection of audio and video recordings from the Macalester
Archives
including convocations, speakers, concerts, and other Macalester
events
Department Offices
(See Campus Directory)
- Writing an anthropology paper? Check the Anthropology Office’s
personal collection, lower level Carnegie. Almost all academic
departments have books and other resources in their own buildings.
- Course Web Pages and LESTER
(Mac Web Page)
- View course syllabi, links to relevant articles, and other class
information.
- See notes on Lester under library web page heading.
- Moodle
(http://moodle.macalester.edu)
- See what professors have posted as relevant articles, texts
for their classes.
- See notes on Lester under library web page heading.
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