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1. Have a game plan. Write your topic or thesis statement on the line below, then populate at
least 9 of the boxes with potential synonyms or related subjects/issues that you might use to
search for sources. [get creative]
_________________________________________Cheap
Labor______________________________________________
7.25
Minimum wage
Underpay
Mothers
Familis
Households
Living Wage
Base Pay
Income
(when posting this to your research journal, you may copy and paste your answers, or take a screenshot)
2. The database recommended to you in the hangout was Academic Search Complete,
because its multidisciplinary and great for scholarly articles. Go to Academic Search
Complete, and find an article related to your topic to answer the prompts below. Remember:
1)use the some of the words you thought of to populate your game plan above in your search;
2)use words instead of sentences or phrases.
Show your search strategy. Type in the words you used in your own search so I can see what a
sophisticated search you managed to create. Tell me how many results you got from doing
this search.
Minimum Wage
Under Pay
Tell me about the article you chose by answering the prompts below.
Article title: The Battle over the Minimum Wage, City, by City
Author(s):Dreler, Peter
Publication year:September 2014
Title of publication:New Labor Forum
Full text available in the database? Yes.
3. A good place to get broad, background information is a book. Find a book you can use for
your topic by searching the librarys catalog (book tab) and answer the prompts below.
Book title: The minimum wage
Author/editor: Noah Berlatsky
Publication year:2012
Where was this book published? Detroit : Greenhaven Press
Quiz Time!
If you attended the hangout (or at least watched it later) answering these questions should be
a breeze.
Match the definition on the right to the word or concept on the left. Multiple definitions may be
matched to the words on the right.
1.__L_P__ Peer-review
2.___O_C OR
3._H__I__ Scholarly article
4.__D_N__ AND
5.__B___ full-text
6._I__G__ Articles (newspaper, magazine, &
scholarly)
7.___E__ Books
8.___A_F K_ Catalog
9.__M__N_ Time
10.__J_Q__ Google