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English 1213 Dr. Miller. Session 3 Catalog Frederic Murray, M.L.I.S. NEA Study 2007: To Read or Not To Read. Americans are spending less time reading Reading comprehension skills are eroding These declines have serious civic, social, cultural and economic implications. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
English 1213Dr. Miller
Session 3CatalogFrederic Murray, M.L.I.S.
NEA Study 2007:To Read or Not To Read• Americans are spending less time
reading
• Reading comprehension skills are eroding
• These declines have serious civic, social, cultural and economic implications
To Read or Not To Read
• More than 60% of employed Proficient readers have jobs in management or in the business, financial, professional and related sectors
• Only 18% of Basic reader are employed in those fields
• Proficient readers are 2.5 times as likely as Basic readers to be earning $850 or more a week
-U.S. Dept. of Ed: Nat. Center for Education Statistics 2005
To Read or Not To Read
• Employers now rank reading and writing as top deficiencies in new hires
• Remedial writing courses are estimated to cost more than $3.1 billion for large corporate employers and $221 for state employers
Reading is Transformative
• Jimmy Santiago Baca
• Dorothy Allison
• Larry Heinemann
SHAQ…
Review
• Keyword vs. Subject• Boolean• Limiters
1: the act or process of executing : performance
2: a putting to death especially as a legal penalty
3: the process of enforcing a legal judgment (as against a debtor) ; also : a judicial writ directing such enforcement
4: the act or mode or result of performance
Keyword example: execution
Keywords: SynonymsKeyword: executionPart of Speech: nounSynonyms: accomplishment,
completion, consummation, decapitation, doing, effectuation, electrocution, fulfillment, garrote, guillotine, killing, lapidation, noyade, performance, perpetration, realization, strangulation, transaction
“Execution” in an Online Search Catalog:
Database:
Internet :
• Direct marketing : strategy, planning, execution / Edward L. Nash
• Forward chaining in HALO: An implementation strategy for history-based logic pointcuts
• FOXNews.com - Anger After Cheerleaders Stage Mock Execution at Pep Rally
Searches Use Boolean
•execution and business
•execution and prison
•execution and “dance moves”
Finding books
• Catalog• Use keyword searching with
Boolean operators• Subject searching is like using a
thesaurus• Limiters
SWOSU Catalog
Open WorldCat
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Exercise
• Catalog worksheet– SWOSU– WorldCat
– Topic: U.S.A. Presidential Elections