 Alright, so hello everybody. Welcome to the Library and Writing Center Secondary Sources Workshop. We are really excited today to be talking about some of the resources available to you if you are needing some secondary sources. So first off, we're going to introduce ourselves. Hi, my name is Carissa Powell. I use she or her pronouns. I am a student success librarian and I do a couple of different things that I mostly work with first year composition students. My email is Carissa at utk.edu and you are free to email me about just about anything. Hi, everyone. My name is Grace Darrell. I also use she her pronouns. I am one of the online learning librarians here at UT libraries. And like Carissa, I also do a lot of the things, but my main job is kind of twofold. One is creating online learning materials and then another one is working with students. Again, like Carissa, my email is up on the slide. It's gtherall at utk.edu. Feel free to email me with any questions or anything you need help with. Feel free to reach out. Just to give you an overview of what we'll be doing today. Again, there's going to be about 30 minute presentation and then about 30 minutes of Q&A. During the presentation portion, we'd love to hear from you over chat if you have questions about anything. So this is what we're going to be doing today. So we'll be sharing. I'm going to share with you a little bit from how some of you felt about research and some stressful feelings, some like unknowns, not really sure what it might look like. We will be defining some terms for everybody, learning where to go for research, what that might look like, and what it might feel like. We'll then wrap up to make sure everyone knows how to get help from both the library and the writing center after today. So we wanted to start off with some definitions just because in libraries, we sometimes use words that librarians know what they mean, but it's not always evident what they mean. So we're just going to go over a couple of definitions for words that we're going to use today. Again, if you have questions about these, feel free to type a question in the chat. So the first thing we're going to talk about is what is a secondary source. I'm sure you've heard of the term primary source, and there was actually a workshop recently on primary sources that you can go look at as well. So a secondary source is basically just a resource that comments on, analyzes, summarizes, or interprets a primary source or other secondary sources. The goals of this are journal articles, literature reviews, book reviews, a documentary is another kind of secondary source, so a lot of different kinds of sources. And we're mostly going to focus on journal articles today, but there are a lot of different types of secondary sources. The next word we're going to talk about is a database. Again, probably a word that you've heard a lot about. If you haven't, that's okay, you will, you will hear a lot about them in your time. So a database essentially is a collection or index of different resources. And within the database, you might find full text of the resource, you might find just a citation of the resource, or sometimes you'll find an abstract, which is basically just a paragraph that summarizes what the resource is about. So a database can have all some, or just one of these resources within it. Examples are academic search complete, which is actually an example of when we're going to look at today. There are also databases like JSTOR or Web of Science. There are also databases that work specifically with different kinds of resources, like statistical data, or we have primary source databases. So databases are not just for secondary sources, but those are what we're going to focus on today. And then finally, our last word of the day is a research guide, something else we'll talk about and something else you might have heard of. And a research guide is essentially a collection of information to help with research in a specific context. That could be a specific discipline like English. That could be a specific class like first year composition. So there are different kinds of context that you might find a research guide in. Examples are we have like a primary resource, primary source research guide, we have a first year composition guide if you've looked at that at all. And then another example like that discipline specific would be like a psychology research guide, which just gives examples of kind of getting you started for research gives you sample databases journal articles books you might want to read things like that. So this is what it might look like if you are on our libraries homepage, which is lib.utk.edu, we're just going to walk you through what that looks like. And so, once you get to our homepage to access some of the research guides that grace was talking about. Amber has also put the link in the chat. If you're watching this on YouTube, the link is down below. Right here is where you would click for your research guide. So you can click there. And then get to a page that looks like this. You can both scroll through to look through some different subjects. So you could go down to English or math, what have you. You can also type in right here, what you're looking for. So if you know that you're in a first year composition course you could type that in and hit enter, which would then take you to a page that looks like this. This is a guide that was created specifically for students in English 101 102 118 198298. So this is a really great place for you to go to kind of get a one stop anything you might need. On this page, we'll have both secondary sources and primary sources depending on which one you're needing. So since we're talking about secondary sources today you might want to check out that secondary sources portion. It also has links to a lot of other things you might need for your assignment so definitely maybe bookmark this one I'm a little biased because it's my guide but there's also guides for any other class you might be in. The other place to go to get started looking for articles for your secondary sources is back on the library's homepage. So again, lib.utk.edu. I'm going to come over to I'm kind of in like the bottom left hand corner ish where I would say articles and databases, very aptly named. So if you click there you would then get to a page that looks like this. And this might be a little overwhelming there's a lot of links on this page. But I would break it down a couple different ways. We have most popular databases that are what it really means is they're good general getting started databases. We also have databases by subject so if you know you're doing something very subject specific you can click there. I would also recommend this general topics getting started page that is also really great. So there are a lot of different databases. I would maybe recommend not clicking on the complete list of databases it's going to be really overwhelming. And I would really much more recommend going through some of the more popular ones or the getting started topics. So we defined terms and Chris showed us where to go for when we start our secondary source research. So starting with the articles and databases page or starting with research guides. Those are really good places to start when you're looking for secondary sources. And now we're going to transition a little into what the research experience looks like so if you're just starting out. If you're wanting to find a basic secondary source or you're wanting to see what's out there. What is that actually going to look like in practice. So I'm pretending that we're starting from the articles and databases page which you just saw. And like Chris said there are lots of different options here for the type of database you want to use. But we're going to look at academic search complete that's over on the left hand side of the page. And this is like it like it says one of our more popular databases and it's interdisciplinary which means that there are a lot of different kinds of disciplines that are going to be represented in that database. So you'll find secondary sources from a range of subject areas not just like psychology or anthropology or business or something like that. So if we clicked on that this is what our page would look like. So this is what the page this first search page for academic search complete looks like it's just some blank boxes. If you've used a database before this will probably look familiar to you. It's also similar like if you use one search on the library's website. It's just a search box and that's generally how it starts so you would insert your keywords into those search boxes. You're welcome to put more than one word into that first box or you can kind of separate out your terms and put them into each individual box. And then you can see below there are some advanced search options we're not going to go over those today, but if you want to do some more advanced searching. If you want to be a little bit more specific if you have some more ways you want to narrow down your search. That's a good place to go for that. But we're just going to pretend that we did a basic search for coffee and roasting which will show up on our next slide. So you type in your keywords and you hit search. And this is what the search results page looks like. This is pretty typical of most databases or anywhere that you would go to look for secondary sources. This is kind of what it's going to look like. So it'll have your keywords at the top so you can remember what you were searching for. And then it's got this big search results page. So over on the left side, there are different ways to refine your results. So if you need a peer reviewed secondary source from a journal article, or from a scholarly journal, you can limit just to that. That's an option. You can limit my publication date. If you scroll down on those filters, there are also other options. So again, that's kind of a good way to narrow down your search if you're needing something maybe a little bit more specific or if you have too many results to sift through and you want a smaller number. In the middle section there. That's where your main search results are going to be. And we'll look at one of those in just a second just to kind of show you what that looks like when you're looking for secondary sources. But as you can see all three of these are academic journal articles. The search results, it's going to give you the title and then it'll tell you the authors. Sometimes it might have a preview of the abstract, but these don't. It gives you all of that kind of basic citation information. So authors where it was published, the date, all of that good stuff. And then it also gives you some subjects so you can kind of maybe see what the article is going to be about. And if you see there's also a find text button underneath the subjects. That's going to tell you that you can click on that and it'll help you find the full text of the article. And then if you see over on the right side of the page. We have a chat box embedded into the database into a lot of our databases. So if you're on academic search complete, and you're looking for secondary sources and you're just hitting a wall or up evaluating a source or you're not sure what to look for next, you can actually just chat with us from the database and get help that way, which is really useful. So we're going to pretend we clicked on the first section, the first option. And this is what this is basically what a search result looks like. And so, you know, it's a secondary source because if you see in that source section it says it's from a journal which is food chemistry. It says document type article, and then it gives you the abstract which is again just a summary of what the source is. So this will look pretty similar again in a lot of the databases that you're searching whenever you're looking for a secondary source. So get familiar. This will look very familiar to you when you start actually doing research or if you've already started doing research, you should kind of recognize this page. Again, like I said, this is going to look similar for different databases that you search. So whether you choose another one of those article databases on that articles and databases page. Those databases will probably look very similar will have similar functionality. Also, if again, like I said, if you start maybe with one search on the library's website. It will also look similar to this. So kind of just giving you a feel for again what research is going to look like as you start researching and looking for those secondary sources. So now that we have talked about the process of what some of these terms are where to go what it might look like. I wanted to make sure we talked about what research might feel like. And these are all like feelings that I have felt when I do my own research. So you're not alone if you feel some of these feelings. So some of my first feelings I feel when I started a research project is that I'm kind of like, oh my gosh, what am I doing? Where do I go? I'm not sure where to get started. We had a student that shared that you feel a little stressful. And sometimes as I get into the research, maybe I'm just like, I'm not finding the things I thought I was going to find or the things that I'm looking for. And so lastly, sometimes I'm just like, oh, I wasn't expecting to see that. Like sometimes you find things you weren't expecting. So all of these emotions are completely part of the research process and I just want to validate if you feel any of those feelings. Hopefully there also be some positive feelings in there too, but it's definitely a roller coaster of emotions. So some of the things I talk about with students when we talk about feelings is that research really is this cyclical process. It's pretty rare that you will do one search and find the thing you're looking for. And so kind of just want to dispel that myth right now. You know, such thing as a ideal perfect search. And it's really normal if you come up with the most beautiful search string of keywords and synonyms and then get zero results. So I just want to kind of throw that out there that any of those things happen to you. It's really part of the research process. Some of the very smart people have felt that way before. And if you run into any of those walls, that's completely okay. It's part of the process. And that's part of what we in the library and folks in the writing center are here to support you on breaking through some of those walls. So I hope that you will lean on some of the resources and support you have available to you that if you really are just not having a breakthrough on either the writing or the research side of things that there's lots of people who would really love to help you out. That is my plug for our next workshop, which is next week, October 7. It's on what to do if you're in a research rut. So if you're here, or it's before October 7, and if you're feeling any of those feelings, we have another workshop next week that will kind of walk you through concrete steps of what to do to break through that research barrier. Yeah, please come next week. It's going to be going to be a great time. And also just as a reminder, I don't have this on the slide, but the previous recordings of the other workshops are on the library's YouTube channel and they're linked from the library website. So I don't know if Amber wants to wants to find that link or I can just pop it in is this is not a pretty link. But this is the playlist for the other workshops that we had. So there's one about introduction to the libraries. Power notes, which is a tool for organizing your research topic selection and kind of an introduction to searching and then last week was the primary source workshop. So those are all places for you to go to see other workshops if you would like to see and learn more about what was going on in those. These are the ways that you can get help from the library later on. You can always of course chat with us. There are librarians on the other end we're waiting to help you, and that's what we're there for us to help with research so if you're in a rut. If you are just getting started and don't really know where you want to go. If you need help developing your topic, whatever it is, we can help you with that. We have a form specifically for that, or you're welcome to email a librarian, it can be your subject librarian, it could be Carissa, it could be me. If you've got a librarian you already kind of know and want to work with. So you can always do a one on one appointment with us that way. And then the other way is just to look at research guides if you're just getting started like we mentioned before. No matter what subject you're looking at, no matter what class you're in, we probably have a research guide for you, and you can kind of start with those. That's another way that you can get help as you're first starting out with your research. And now we're going to let the writing center talk about how you can get help from them. Thanks. Hi I'm Kirsten Benson, I'm the director of the writing center and so many of the things that that have been discussed today are things that that we also can help you with. So we have a variety of links right here on this slide and I put our website link right there in the chat as well. So, especially that wall, you know that was mentioned that place where things get a little overwhelming and you're thinking like I can't find any sources or I don't know what to do with my sources or things like I'm really sure that I'm using my sources most effectively. Once I have found them. Those were all things that we definitely can help you along the way. A lot of students think that the only time to get help from the writing center is when you have the project done. So, just like as just like you can reach out to the, to the librarians, you know for help while you're in the process you also can reach out to us for help along the way and don't have to wait until you have that draft all already finished in fact we are always saying like get help sooner rather than waiting till the end. So all of the information about how to how to get help from us is on our website that writing center dot utk dot edu. And also in there, the link where we have our appointment scheduler and appointment portal and that's that utk my wc online calm. And that's something that you might want to bookmark because that's where you can go and actually make the appointment to work with us. And that could be a video based appointment like this. So it could be an appointment where if you have a completed draft and you want you a little bit of feedback you can you can get an email appointment that way so all of those are described on our website and on that wc online page. And off of the writing center page there's a link about how to make an attend appointments and it kind of gives you a step by step instruction for you know how to register for a free account on that wc online and then how to how to make the appointment how to show up for the appointment and everything and let's say that one of the main things also is and this is also in the chat there too. You can if you have any questions at all like, I'm not sure how to make an appointment or something like that. I had to do is email us writing center at utk dot edu and we try to be really prompt in responding to to student inquiries so lots of ways that you can reach out to us and get help on, you know, on things that you work and working on. All right. Thank you so much kirsten for that. And now this is the end we've reached the end of our workshop today. So, there is a session survey if you would like to fill that out. You can also fill that out and get proof of attendance if you need that for your classes. I've already said next Wednesday we're doing another workshop for when you hit a research right that will be really useful. I'm really looking forward to seeing what recommendations and what the discussion looks like because I hit research routes. So, really looking forward to that. And then again if you want to see the full schedule of our workshops you can find that on the website at that link there. And I think at this time. Thank you all so much for coming and spending some time with us today. And now I believe we're going to stop the recording and then move on into our Q&A period.