 Starting out at IRSC's homepage, you can get to the library website by clicking on Quick Links and then Libraries in the top right corner. To access the library's online databases, you are going to click on Databases by Subjects. Now you will have to log in to access our resources. Before you do, please note that your PIN for the library is different from your IRSC PIN or Blackboard PIN. Your borrower ID is your student ID and your PIN is the month and day of your birth. If your birthday is January 28, then your PIN is 0128. Once you are logged in, you will see a listing of subjects. The database we need for the argumentative paper is listed under Current Events. Click on Current Events and then click on Opposing Viewpoints. This database makes it easy to pick a topic as it lists some current and controversial topics under Browse Issues. Click on Browse Issues to see a list of these topics. Then click on a topic that interests you. The topics listed here are very broad. You will not want to write a paper on such broad topics, but you will use the database to help you narrow down your choice to a viewpoint or one side of an argument that is tied to a broad topic. For example, if you click on Mental Health, you can read and overview this topic to get some ideas on what you would want to focus on if you are interested in mental health. If you click on Viewpoints, you will see over 100 articles that have information on various controversial points of view as it relates to mental health. From the Viewpoints page, I would read some of the article titles to get a better idea as to how I would narrow down my thesis statement on mental health. As you can see in this list of viewpoints, I could focus on the care given to military veterans and how that helps with PTSD, or I could focus on adolescent mental health issues. Another current topic is the use of animals in mental health therapy programs. If you see a viewpoint you like, click on the title to read the article associated with this topic. If that is the topic you decide to pursue, the article you clicked on could be one source you would use to write your paper. To give you a better idea of the process, I am going to go back to the main page and show you one other broad topic and how to use the sources in it to help narrow down your topic. If you click on Browse Issues and look through the list of possibilities, this time choose something that interests you. I am going to select Food and Security. Then click on the Read More link in the introduction paragraph about your issue. This is going to give you the background information you need to get started on narrowing down your topic and framing your own essay. If you like the issue you chose, you should email or download this information so you have it for later. You can also get an MLA style citation by clicking on site and then copying and pasting the citation. I recommend you email the article and paste the citation into it, or if you are at home, download the article and check that the citation is included in your PDF. Next, look for the viewpoints by clicking on Previous Page. Now scroll through the list of possibilities. You may see that there are two opposite viewpoints in your list. For example, I have genetically modified foods are not the answer to world hunger, and then I have genetically modified foods can help address the global food crisis. If you choose that for your topic, I can use both essays to help me write my paper, giving me two sources to write my paper. The number of sources you need depends on the requirements provided by your professor and your ability to incorporate your sources into your writing. This database is helpful in finding many different sources on one topic. By searching for one keyword, food insecurity, I have 273 viewpoints, 313 academic journals, 10 images, 20 videos, and 247 magazine articles, plus many more not mentioned. To narrow down the possibilities, once the topic is chosen, you can search for that more narrow topic in the database. For example, you can click on Search Within Results and then type in Genetically Modified Foods in the search box, and now you have a much more manageable number of articles to use and hopefully have enough to write your paper.