ENG 111: College Composition I (Argument Research - AL)

• Use AND to connect keywords
  
  child abuse AND prevention
  
  
• Use quotation marks around two or more words you want found together
  
  "child abuse"
  "genetic engineering"
  
  
• Use the asterisk to find multiple endings of a word (e.g., generation* would include generation, generations, and generational)
  
  Generation* AND conflict

Note: the Library Catalog does not search the full-text of books.  It looks at the title, author, subject headings, and any details provided (such as table of contents).

Why use a book?

• find detailed and comprehensive background information
• find the history of a topic
• use book's bibliography to find additional resources

Author Credentials and Authority -- look for a brief author biography and the name of the publisher:

• book jacket
• back of the book
• inside the book, either the beginning or the end

Intended Audience -- look at:

• publisher name
• vocabulary used
• information in the preface and jacket/back of book