Research Guides: Comp II 10112-80 Bond: Home

Getting started

This guide is created to help you navigate research and writing for Composition II. Here, you will find different tools and resources available to you at the library. There is a sidebar on the left with a table of contents that you can click on and look through. Once you have clicked on the menu item, you will also find tabs for sub-sections along the top of the box. For example, this box has "choose topic" as one of the tabs.

What's in this guide:

Searching

keywords
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Books/eBooks

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locate eBooks available in the EBSCOhost eBook Collection

Articles

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View video about using "MyEBSCOhost" to permanently save specific articles in an EBSCOhost folder

Off-campus access

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Citing

Examples of references and in text citations

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Need a topic? Idea generator
Courtesy: Old Dominion University Libraries

What kind of information do you need for your topic or research question?

[ types of information ]

Mapping Tool
Use this tool to map your ideas.

Mapping

Here is an example of mapping terms related to "evidence" ---> melting glaciers, increase in extreme weather, warming oceans

[ climate change example: evidence, causes, solutions ]

To create a shape, click on any of the shape icons on the left navigation bar
To type inside a shape, double click within the boundaries of a shape
Shapes can be dragged around and resized inside the canvas. To resize a shape, hover mouse pointer over either the right side or underneath of a shape to toggle the resizable arrows
To toggle the customization options, hover within the boundaries of a shape
- - change background color of the shape
- - change border color of the shape
- - change text color of the shape
- - delete shapeTo draw a connection between shapes, hover mouse pointer around the center of a shape to toggle the circular connection source and then drag and draw a line from the source to any other shape
To delete a connection between shapes, double click on the connection line
To pull up the customization navigation menu, click Customize (top right). Any changes made will be applied to all shapes and connections already present in the canvas as well as any consequent shapes and connections
To revert back to the original stylings, click Reset
To download the image as a JPEG image file, click on the Download button on the top navigation bar
To clear the image, click Discard (top right)

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Comp II 10112-80 Bond

Getting started

Mapping

To toggle the customization options, hover within the boundaries of a shape