What have you already done in the library?

Have your kids used the children's section?

Did you come dressed up for Halloween?

Read from our Popular Fiction sections?

Here's some more library resources!

• Databases—including movies!
• Research Guides that help you know where to start!
• Schedule an Appointment with a Librarian—you've already paid for it!
• Book a Group Study Space—we've got four of them!

Peer review? Databases?

Peer reviewed ≅ refereed

Here's how an idea goes from a researcher to journal to a database.

Thesis Statements

• Statement of fact: Hybrid cars are more energy efficient than cars with standard gasoline engines.
• Thesis statement: Although hybrid cars could decrease our country's dependence on foreign oil, they have disadvantages.

BEAM analysis

• Background: general information
• Exhibit (aka Evidence): examples or evidence to analyze
• Argument: engaging, amplifying, or refuting a source's assertions
• Method (aka Model): borrowing an approach