ENGL 321 - Nelson
Class Information
APA Annotated Bibliographic Sample
Books on Reserve
Professor Nelson has placed several books useful for the final research paper topics on library reserve. Library reserve materials are available at the Check-Out Desk for 2-Hour check-out periods. Check here for current availability of a specific book.
Advertising
Ads to Icons: How Advertising Succeeds in a Multimedia Age by Paul Springer
Advertising and the Mind of the Consumer: What Works, What Doesn't and Why by Max Sutherland
Can't Buy Me Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel by Jean Kilbourne
Creative Advertising: Ideas and Techniques from the World's Best Campaigns by Mario Pricken
Deadly Persuasion: Why Women and Girls Must Fight the Addictive Power of Advertising by Jean Kilbourne
Television Advertising that Works: An Analysis of Commercials from Effective Campaigns by Stephen W. Marshall
Work and the Economy
Demanding Work: The Paradox of Job Quality in the Affluent Economy by Francis Green
Fake Work: Why People are Working Harder Than Ever but Accomplishing Less, and How to Fix the Problem by Brent D. Peterson and Gaylan W. Nielson
Nice Work If You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times by Andrew Ross
Obedience and Authority
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt
Classic Experiments in Psychology by Douglas Mook
The Lucifer Effect: How Good People turn Evil by Philip Zimbardo
The Case of the Nazi Professor by David M. Oshinsky, Richard P. McCormick and Daniel Horn
Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century by Lauren Slater
Stanley Milgram: Understanding Obedience and Its Implications by Peter Lunt
Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America by Frances Fox Piven
The Man Who Shocked the World: The Life and Legacy of Stanley Milgram by Thomas Blass
Green Technology
Energy Explained by Vikram Janardhan and Bob Fesmire
Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology by Alexis Madrigal
Marriage and Family
Gay Marriage: For Better or For Worse?: What We've Learned From the Evidence by William N. Eskridge, Jr. and Darren R. Spedale
Family in Transition edited by Arlene S. Skolnick and Jerome H. Skolnick
Gay Marriage: why it is Good for Gays, Good for Straights, and Good for America by Jonathan Rauch
Civil Wars: A Battle for Gay Marriage by David Moats
Same-Sex Marriage, Pro and Con: A Reader edited by Andrew Sullivan
General
How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff
Article Databases
For background information on topics in the news, try Facts on File's World News Digest and Issues and Controversies
For background information on topics and concepts, try Credo Reference
ABI/INFORM Complete
ABI/INFORM is a premier source of business and corporate information, containing content from thousands of journals that help researchers track business conditions, trends, management techniques, and corporate strategies. Coverage for this database begins in 1971.
Academic OneFile
Academic OneFile is a large database with broad subject coverage, containing many full-text resources.
Access World News
Access World News contains the full-text of nearly 1700, mostly English-language, news sources from around the world, with coverage for most beginning in the 90s or 00s.
General Business File
Selected full-text is available in General BusinessFile from 1980-present for the following material types: newspaper and journal articles, trade publication articles, and broker research reports. Many aspects of business are covered including advertising, industry analysis, management, and marketing.
JSTOR
JSTOR is a multidisciplinary database which contains the full-text of articles from core journals in several academic disciplines. Coverage is from each journal's first issue and continues through 2-5 years from the most recently published issues.
*Click here to access a guide on using JSTOR.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context
The Opposing Viewpoints in Context contains full-text book chapters and articles covering all sides of contemporary controversial issues. Type in immigration and economy in the Basic Search box and change Subject to Keyword.
PsycINFO
PsycINFO is the most comprehensive indexing source for psychology and associated fields, containing "citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations . . . Journal coverage, spanning 1872-present, includes international material selected from more than 1,300 periodicals written in over 25 languages." Selected full-text is available via PsycArticles.
Off-Campus Database Access
For information on accessing databases from off-campus, click here. If you are a Distance Education student, see our Distance Education Library Services page.
Web Sources
Obedience and Authority
The Stanford Prison Experiment
Work and the Economy
General
Evaluating Web Sites for Credibility
Citing Sources
Whenever you are quoting or using information from a source, you must credit or cite that source. Failure to do so is plagiarism which can lead to expulsion from the University. APA and MLA are two formats for citation. The following links provide information on how to use either APA or MLA.
Citation Style Guide: APA (PDF)
An online version of an APA Quick Reference handout which provides the citation style for several basic types of sources, requires Adoboe Acrobat Reader.
Citation Style Guide: MLA (PDF)
An online version of FLITE's MLA Quick Reference handout, requires Adoboe Acrobat Reader.
Purdue Online Writing Lab [OWL]
Captioning Tables and Figures from Another Source (APA, 6th ed.)
Citing Tables and Figures in APA, 6th ed.Contact Stacy Anderson/ Email / Phone: 231-591-3635 / Office: FLITE 140C
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Last update: November 9, 2011