This guide is designed to assist Freshman English (ENGL 101 and UHON 110) students in completing the information literary lessons and exercises and course research papers.
You are starting at the advanced search page of the new library catalog interface. You can search this catalog by author's name, title of work, or by item type, i.e., book, video, etc.
This short video lesson demonstrates how to use the USD Library catalog to find books and other materials in the library's collections quickly and efficiently.
Use WorldCat to get books from the USD Libraries and from around the world.
Source Evaluation Rubric
These resources consist of an example of an annotation paragraph and a Source Evaluation Rubric useful when preparing your evaluation of your source document. Feel free to print or to download each document.
Use this rubric to quickly evaluate and assess the quality of your sources. Then express your evaluation for these different categories in your annotation. Keep in mind that you can cover only 3 or 4 of these categories in your paragraph.
