American Government

Political Project – 3rd Quarter 2006

Mr. Stanley

 

 

 

E-Congress

Important Dates

Political Project

 Project Contract

Topics

Worksheet (Word)

Worksheet (WebDoc)

 

 

 

 

 

 

MLA Style Manual

 

 

PowerPoint Presentation

 

 

Turnitin.com

 

 

Ø      INFOhio Electronic Resources Preview2006 –

ü      Usernames and Passwords are posted on the first screen of each resource

ü      134 electronic reference sources available free from January 15 until March 15 2006

 

Ø      Congressional Quarterly Electronic Library –

ü      Username: infohio2006  Password: cqel

ü      Access to 6 government resources

 

Ø      Congressional Quarterly Weekly –

ü      Username: infohio2006  Password: cqel

ü      Source for  coverage of the U.S. Congress: status of bills, votes and amendments, floor and committee activity,etc.

 

Ø      Congressional Digest –

ü       Reports on pros and cons, background and verbatim arguments of legislation before Congress, each issue dealing with one law under consideration.

ü       Use ESBCO publication search to access issues 1921-2006.

ü       Enter topic and name of publication in appropriate search field.

 

Ø      Westlake High School Library:

ü      General Encyclopedias

ü      Magazines & Newspapers

§         EBSCO – 6000 magazine titles; millions of fulltext searchable articles

ü      Reference Databases

 

Ø      Selected Websites