Begin your project by doing some background reading on your topic. Preliminary reading helps you do all the following:
Why search here? Use this database when you want to find comprehensive, unbiased reporting and analysis to get background information on issues in the news.
What's included: Overview reports of topics related to health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy in America.
Why search here? Use this database for preliminary reading as you start your research. You'll learn about your topic by reading authoritative topic overviews on a wide variety of subjects.
What's included: Gale eBooks is comprised of subject, specialized encyclopedias with articles written by scholars and experts.
Environmental Health Sb, 6th Ed
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Health Care off the Books
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Food Inequalities
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The SAGE Encyclopedia of World Poverty
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Why search here? Search 29 databases at the same time that cover almost any topic you need to research at MJC. This is a good resource to use when you want to delve deeper into your subject.
What's included: EBSCO databases include articles previously published in academic journals, magazines, newspapers, books, and other media outlets.
Why search here? When you want to find broad coverage on almost any topic you need to research at MJC, use Gale databases to search over 35 databases simultaneously.
What's included: Gale databases include articles previously published in journals, magazines, newspapers, books, and other media outlets.
Why search here? Use this database when you want to explore your topic from a global perspective or to analyze and understand the most important issues of the modern world with a global awareness.
What's included: You'll find news, global viewpoints, reference materials, country information, primary source documents, videos, statistics, and more.
Why search here? This is a great database to use when you want to explore different viewpoints on controversial or hot-button issues.
What's included: It includes pro/con articles, court cases, primary sources, videos, media, editorials, and news on more than 800 hot topics in business, politics, government, education, and popular culture. Use the search or browse topics by subject or A to Z.
Why use this database? Use NoodleTools when you want to create and organize your research notes, share and collaborate on research projects, create and error check citations, and complete your bibliography in MLA, APA, or Chicago styles.
What's included: Tools to provide you a workflow for your research including creation of notecards and outlines, the ability to collaborate with classmates on group projects, in addition to a citation generator that teaches you how to cite your sources as you complete the citation forms, and the ability to build your complete bibliography.
Use NoodleTools Express if you just need to create a source citation on the fly, then copy and paste it into your document. No login required.
You already have a pair of research questions to consider, as noted from the prompt:
Would it benefit or harm someone to become more altruistic or egoistic? (individual focus)
In what ways would being more altruistic or egoistic benefit society or harm it? (society focus)
Consider answering one or both of these questions as a single statement that is arguable.
Each entry in your Works Cited list is built from a set of elements common to most sources—things like the author, title, and publication date. MLA calls these the core elements, and they must appear in a specific order (top to bottom in this list):
Not every source will include every element. If one isn’t present (for example, no “other contributors”), simply skip it and move on to the next element.
Use the links below to see examples.
If you don’t find what you need, check out Ask the MLA on the MLA’s official site.