TBA Workshop: Research Papers  

Papers vs. Research Papers

A paper about gay marriage might include your personal ideas and opinions about gay marriage.

A research paper about gay marriage includes your personal ideas and opinions about gay marriage + books, articles, and websites about gay marriage.   These sources -- books, articles, and websites -- provide information from experts who have studied this topic and primary sources from people with first-hand experience.

Would you stop eating to protest something? For how long? A day? A week?

Here's Cesar Chavez. He had just fasted (refused to eat) for 24 days to protest treatment of immigrants working in the fields. Can you figure out who is sharing the communion bread with him? It's Bobby Kennedy, brother of President John F. Kennedy and Senator Ted Kennedy, who just died recently. That's Helen Chavez, wife of Cesar, on the left. Want a book about this? Want an article? Want a website?

Doing research helps you learn more about a topic.  What do you want to learn more about? What is so important to you that you'd be willing to stop eating?

Dave Patterson, Librarian 
pattersond@smccd.edu
(650) 306-3476

Michelle Morton, Librarian

mortonm@smccd.edu

(650) 306-3393

Margie Whitnah, Librarian

whitnah@smccd.edu

(650) 306-3482