PTK HIA 2020: 9/30/20 Research Workshop

1. If you have not already been added to the PTK HIA Google Drive folder and Google Classroom, please coordinate with Prof Lewis to make that happen.

2. If you are new to the HIA project, familiarize yourself with the links on the "Project Details & Links" tab of this online guide, in the box called "Guidance from the PTK Mothership." Pay particular attention to the Planning and Judging Rubric, and the sections mentioned below in the HIA 2020-21 Program Guide.

3. Divide up the work to summarize, and write citations for, any sources we've already collected that seem like they may still be relevant. Most of these sources can be found in the shared Zotero folder that we looked at together in class. You can find the link to that Zotero folder in Google Classroom (under Classwork > Find a relevant academic source > Comments).

4. Write out one or more research questions, to give the group some direction in this new phase of gathering sources. Read page 29 ("DEVELOPING A RESEARCH QUESTION") in the HIA 2020-21 Program Guide. Also read this helpful webpage from another school's library, that gives some good examples of research questions. 

5.Use the LAVC Library website (and the helpful hints provided throughout this webpage) to search for sources about the subtopics we discussed in this workshop, including

• Mental health impacts of isolation (and how they differ with regard to age, geographic location, culture, and other factors)
• The idea that COVID-19 is overshadowing other public health issues (for example, West Nile Virus) and affecting how people pursue and receive prevention and treatment for other health issues (from people skipping regular visits to doctors or dentists, to the concern that cancers may go undetected longer, to reluctance to go to the ER for fear of catching COVID-19, to benefits and deficiencies of TeleHealth).
• How disease disproportionately affects minorities (including possible connections to media influences, terror management theory, patriotism, and politics).

6. Browse the different Themes described in the HIA 2020-21 Program Guide, and think about which Theme(s) we might want to choose for this year's submission.

When you find your sources on the LAVC Library website -- whether you're in an individual database, or using OneSearch -- these tools will usually show you what a citation would look like for each source, in the style that you choose. (Hint: For PTK HIA 2020, the group in Spring agreed to use APA style.) Caution: You should always proofread these citations, and any others derived from auto-generators (like EasyBib or NoodleTools); sometimes they do make mistakes, and your professors (and the HIA judges) will notice.

To help with your proofreading, or to find examples and guidance for writing your own citations from scratch, you have some great resources available to you:

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In the short video below (2:43), one of your LAVC librarians (PTK HIA research mentor, Prof Cynthia Cohen) welcomes you to our website and shows you a few ways to find information and ask for help.

Heads up: If you are using the Library website from off-campus, you will eventually be required to "log in." When that time comes, please follow these directions for logging into the Library website from off-campus. 

Each of the links below goes to an in-depth online guide, with screenshots, explaining how to find these kinds of sources using OneSearch (the big search box near the top of the LAVC Library homepage), or selected Library databases from our A-Z Databases list (found by clicking the big green "Databases" circle on the LAVC Library homepage).

In addition to OneSearch, the following Library databases may be particularly useful for this research topic. While many of them will also turn up results in OneSearch, it is sometimes easier to narrow down your results when you search databases one at a time.