WRTG 291 students:

In WRTG 291, you will focus several of your formal writing assignments on a research topic of your choice. Last week, you completed a keyword search on a topic of your choosing. This week you will work on narrowing search topics.

This exercise will help you to become familiar with academic research and the UMUC databases. Please watch the library tutorial 2 video below:

If you need help reading and understanding scholarly sources, please read over Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing,Volume 2, Chapter 13, Reading Games: Strategies for Reading Scholarly Sources.

The purpose of this activity is to help you become more familiar with UMUC Databases, searching, and narrowing/broadening a search.

In the first library exercise, you conducted a keyword search. In this activity, you will learn about subject searches.

Please complete the following steps after you have watched library tutorial #2:

1. Conduct the same key word search you conducted for library tutorial #1. Then use the SU Subject terms drop-down option to narrow your search even more. Please take notes on how you altered your search. (You will use them later in class.)

2. After you've searched, acquire one article from your new search. Write a short summary of the article. Remember to cite your source using APA guidelines.

This is what I wrote for discussion one along with the keywords I used:

Keywords: "rape" and "College" and "parties"

Author: Kaitlin M. Boyle and Lisa Slattery Walker

Title of article: The Neutralization and Denial of Sexual Violence in College Party Subcultures.

Summary: Some colleges have a rape culture in which people have turned the blind eye This article examines such rape culture and how widespread and common rape is at college parties. In addition, how the victims have normalized assault as something that just happens when you go to such parties. Boyle and Walker analyze how rape culture in college altered student’s opinion of rape.

For week two I searched "rape" and "college" and "parties" with the filter SU subject term (like the directions asked me to do) and it yielded no results. I then switched it to "rape culture" and "college" 187 results then I added the filter SU subject terms and it narrowed down to 9 results. I chose the article "Yes means Yes"? Sexual consent policy and college students by Kristen N. Jozkowski for my summary. Although I have not written the summary yet