Competency 5--tagging

MLA HANDBOOK FOR WRITERS OF RESEARCH PAPERS, 6th Edition by Joseph Gibaldi

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No research process is complete without a manual on citation and research paper writing steps. One such manual is the MLA Handbook. This is not the only such a manual, but is a familiar one to many writers of English department research papers. As the tags: "reference" and "writing" indicate, this is a reference book used by those who are writing papers. Kuhlthau does not specify the use of such a manual, but those in the research paper writing process cannot succeed without such a tool.

Competency 4--RSS

PaperBackSwap New Postings (2.0) @ http://222.paperbackswap.com/index.php. This wonderful site allow booklovers like me to swap books. There is no cost except that of mailing a book to someone if they would like one of my posted books. This is a great way to acquire books I need in my library at no cost. Any books added can increase the strength of the library collection and is, therefore, of value to the research process. I have already added Harold Bloom's literary criticisms of Lord of the Flies for free to my library.

Competency 3--Pod

Podscope search engine lead me to The Teachers' Podcast at www.teacherspodcast.org. Here Drs. Kathy King and Mark Gura share ways to add new technology into the classroom. Included in these discussions are concerns about intellectual rights in the sharing of information on the Internet. Information literacy is a topic of much discussion. For example, one podcast concerned the digitization of notes given in a classroom lecture and the ethical dilemma of the intellectual rights of the professor versus the students' sharing of notes. Another broadcast looked at the freeing of classroom time by video taping lectures available on line. This is occurring in some secondary classrooms today. Though not specifically discussing research methods and not limited to secondary school libraries, the site is certainly looking at the digitalization of information and its proper use, and that is of concern to anyone working in a research process.