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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.
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English 1213Dr. 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
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
Review • Keyword vs. Subject • Boolean • Limiters
Keyword example: execution 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
Keywords: Synonyms Keyword: execution Part of Speech: noun Synonyms: accomplishment, completion, consummation, decapitation, doing, effectuation, electrocution, fulfillment, garrote, guillotine, killing, lapidation, noyade, performance, perpetration, realization, strangulation, transaction
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 “Execution” in an Online Search
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
Ebrary • Ebrary provides more than 44,000 digital books in a broad range of subject areas, including business, technology, health and medicine, literature and the humanities, physical sciences, social sciences, and interdisciplinary studies. Ebrary digital books contain the full-text and illustrations of their print counterparts
Exercise • Catalog worksheet • SWOSU • WorldCat • Topic: U.S.A. Presidential Elections
Thank You Frederic Murray M.L.I.S. frederic.murray@swosu.edu 580 774 7113