Using Infotrac to Find Better Sources » Entries http://rcratliff.edublogs.org A sample Tutorial for InfoTrac use by High School teachers and students Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:56:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 What does a typical entry look like? http://rcratliff.edublogs.org/2008/03/16/what-does-a-typical-entry-look-like/ http://rcratliff.edublogs.org/2008/03/16/what-does-a-typical-entry-look-like/#comments Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:29:00 +0000 rcratliff http://rcratliff.edublogs.org/2008/03/16/what-does-a-typical-entry-look-like/ A standard entry in InfoTrac provides a heading that clearly displays the Author, Title, Original Source, Document type, and whether or not the article is presented as “full text” in the database. A full text article is complete; some articles may only be presented by their abstract, and the rest of the text is not present. You can avoid these partial articles by using an advanced search and selecting for returning only full text articles.

After the heading material, the text of the article is presented as one long page; there are no divisions, so you must scroll down to view/read the entire article.

In addition to the information and the text of the article, InfoTrac provides the MLA citation for the article at the bottom of most entries. You may also create this citation by using the command box on the upper right of the page, which also provides options for saving, printing, and e-mailing the article to yourself.

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