ENGL 102 Assessment Spring

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1. How helpful were the exercises in this library session?

very helpful

somewhat helpful

not helpful at all

very helpful

somewhat helpful

not helpful at all

Please answer the following questions to the best of your ability:

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2. I can use a library database to find:

a list of all of the books located in the Ely Library.

statistics on the use of the library, including book fines and patron counts.

articles from magazines and journals.

the floor on which a book is located.

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3. Some examples of periodicals are:

encyclopedias and dictionaries

magazines and journals

databases and catalogs

almanacs and atlases

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4. I can tell that an article came from a scholarly journal if:

the article includes an abstract, citations, and a list of references at the end.

the article does not mention an author but has a lot of color photographs.

the article is less than two pages and was written last week.

the article is available online.

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5. Does the following excerpt come from a scholarly journal or a popular magazine or newspaper?

Scholarly

Popular

"It's almost a point of pride with climatologists. Whenever someplace is hit with a heat wave, drought, killer storm or other extreme weather, scientists trip over themselves to absolve global warming. No particular weather event, goes the mantra, can be blamed on something so general. Extreme weather occurred before humans began loading up the atmosphere with heat-trapping greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide. It's been easier to connect global warming to rising temperatures than to extreme weather events--and even the former hasn't been easy. Only in this decade have "attribution" studies managed to finger greenhouse gases as the chief cause of the rising mercury, rather than a hotter sun or cyclical changes. Now the same "whatdunit?" techniques are being applied to droughts, downpours, heat waves and powerful hurricanes."

(author: Sharon Begley)