IFP Activities 2025 - Library Search by Laura Barber

Task 1- Instructions - Finding Books

ldbarber1 — 2023-10-06 04:42:42 UTC

Search topics
•Critical thinking

•Time management
•Writing skills
•Note taking

•Presentation skills

•Teamwork

Access Library Search via Library website https://www.mdx.ac.ae/library

Sign into Library Search using student email and MyMDX password.

Use Library Search to find books on the following topics:

(use the Books+ and the lefthand filter Held in Library to find physical books)

Complete the following and put answers in Padlet along with your name:

1. How many print copies of the textbook are in Dubai?
2. What are the loan types?
3. What is the shelf mark?
4. Create and paste the citation and permalink into Padlet

Example: Laura Barber

ldbarber1 — 2023-10-06 04:42:42 UTC

Task 1
1. How many print copies of the textbook are in Dubai? 1
2. What are the loan types? 7 DAYS
3. What is the shelf mark? 808.51 CHI
4. Create and paste the citation and permalink into Padlet
Chivers, B. and Shoolbred, M. (2007) A student’s guide to presentations : making your presentation count. Los Angeles: SAGE.

Task 2
Peer reviewed article:
Latifi, S., Noroozi, O., and Hatami, J. (2021) ‘How does online peer feedback improve argumentative essay writing and learning?’, Innovations in education and teaching international, 58(2), pp. 195–206. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/14703297.2019.1687005.

Newspaper article:
The Wall Street Journal. Eastern Edition (2018) ‘Make Students Prove Their Writing Skills; A 25-minute essay completed under duress in a sterile testing center exposes one’s thinking and writing ability’.

Example: Abbie Cruz

ldbarber1 — 2023-10-06 04:42:42 UTC

Task 1
1. How many print copies of the textbook are in Dubai? 1 copy
2. What are the loan types? 7 day
3. What is the shelf mark? 160 FIS
4. Create and paste the citation and permalink into Padlet
Fisher, A. (2011) Critical thinking : an introduction. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Task 2
Peer reviewed article:
Songxaba, S.L. and Sincuba, L. (2019) ‘The effect of social media on English second language essay writing with special reference to WhatsApp’, Reading & writing (Cape Town, South Africa), 10(1), pp. 1–7. Available at: https://doi.org/10.4102/rw.v10i1.179.

Newspaper article:
Citizen (Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania) (2019) ‘Inside Kenya’s essay factory that churn out university coursework for cheating British students’.

Task 2 - Finding Articles

ldbarber1 — 2023-10-06 05:20:15 UTC

Search topics

· Avoiding Plagiarism

· Academic writing

· Note taking

· Presentation skill

Access Library Search via Library website https://www.mdx.ac.ae/library

Sign into Library Search using student email and MyMDX password.

Using the skills shown in the demonstration, complete searches within Library Search.

Put your answers under your name within a new Padlet post.

Choose a topic from the Search topics list. Use the left-hand filters to narrow results via (at least one) subject and make sure the full text is available within our collections.

Find both:

1. Peer reviewed journal article that was published in the last 5 years;

2. Newspaper article published in the last 3 years.

Choose any result and copy the Harvard citation and paste on Padlet