GOAL.
To help your classmates by introducing them to a useful resource! You are not being graded. RELAX and enjoy this activity.
ACTIVITY. Your group will:
- be assigned a resource
- search for either “national parks” or skin disease in the resource
- demonstrate the resource to the class
- have 15 minutes to prepare
- have 5 minutes to demonstrate: show a search and an example of the kind of material found.
- answer these questions during the demonstration:
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- How would this resource be helpful/useful for speech assignments? For your next speech assignment?
- What special features of the research database or its content might be most useful?
- Which kinds of material does a search of this research database produce? Books, magazine articles, encyclopedia articles, statistical sources, dictionary, other… ?
- RELAX! Enjoy showing your classmates a resource that you know about and they don’t.
RESOURCES ASSIGNED: