Library skills for students in Brooklyn College PRLS 3210. Session instructor, Beth Evans. Class professor, Joseph A. Torres-Gonzalez

1. PRLS 3210/ANTH 3520
Prof. Joseph A. Torres-González
Library Session
Prof. Beth Evans
September 4, 2018

2. Essay #1
Writing Sample

3. I want to tell you how the discipline of cultural anthropology developed somewhat
differently in Europe and North America, in particular in the United States, during the
19th and early 20th centuries with each region contributing new dimensions to the
concept of culture. Many European anthropologists were particularly interested in
questions about how societies were structured and how they remained stable over time.
Coleslaw Malinowski and A.R. Radcliffe-Brown are a couple of important ones I should
mention here. They were big deal anthropologists in those days and were at the forefront
with the recognition that culture and society are not the same. In every society, people
are linked to one another through social institutions such as families, political
organizations, and businesses. Anthropologists across Europe often focused their
research on understanding the form and function of these social institutions. With
European colonization of peoples around the globe, more anthropological research
around the planet began to happen. Better data collection came to be referred to as
participant observation meaning that the ethnographers participated in the daily lives of
the people they studied, learned their languages, and became immersed in the ordinary
workings of others’ societies.

4. What’s wrong with the writing sample?
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5. How can someone check to see that your writing is really your writing?

6. Source A:
The discipline of cultural anthropology developed somewhat differently in Europe and North America, in
particular in the United States, during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with each region
contributing new dimensions to the concept of culture. Many European anthropologists were particularly
interested in questions about how societies were structured and how they remained stable over time. This
highlighted emerging recognition that culture and society are not the same. Culture had been defined by Tylor
as knowledge, beliefs, and customs, but a society is more than just shared ideas or habits. In every society,
people are linked to one another through social institutions such as families, political organizations, and
businesses. Anthropologists across Europe often focused their research on understanding the form and
function of these social institutions.
http://perspectives.americananthro.org/Chapters/Culture_Concept.pdf

7. Source B
With European colonization of peoples around the globe, more anthropological research around
the planet began to happen. Better data collection came to be referred to as participant
observation meaning that the ethnographers participated in the daily lives of the people they
studied, learned their languages, and became immersed in the ordinary workings of others’
societies.
http://perspectives.americananthro.org/Chapters/Development_Of_Anthropological_Ideas.pdf

8. Source A
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9. Source B
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10. Writing Citations
In text:
According to Brown, Tubelle de Gonzalez and McIlwraith (2017), “ [w]ith
European colonization of peoples around the globe, more anthropological
research around the planet began to happen. Better data collection came to
be referred to as participant observation meaning that the ethnographers
participated in the daily lives of the people they studied, learned their
languages, and became immersed in the ordinary workings of others’
societies” (p. 4).
“With European colonization of peoples around the globe, more
anthropological research around the planet began to happen. Better data
collection came to be referred to as participant observation meaning that
the ethnographers participated in the daily lives of the people they studied,
learned their languages, and became immersed in the ordinary workings of
others’ societies” (Brown, Tubelle de Gonzalez & McIlwraith, 2017, p. 4).
Good guidelines are available at Writing In-Text Citations in APA Style

11. Writing Citations
Reference List/Bibliography/Works Cited
Good guidelines are available at Books and Book Chapters: What to Cite
• Let’s try this together with Source A:
Do it yourself!
• Avoid online citation generators that may charge or not produce accurate citations
(e.g., http://www.citationmachine.net/items/new?item_type=chapter;
https://www.easybib.com/upgrade)
• Sign up for a RefWorks account through the Library
Databases will allow you to copy/paste a generated citation or export citation data to Refworks

12. On to the Library Web Site!
Use OneSearch to find a book review of the book Conceiving Cuba:
Reproduction, Women, and the State in the Post-Soviet Era.
This book is listed in your syllabus under Ethnographies and Historical Texts
(Available in the CUNY library system)
When using OneSearch, note how to
• differentiate between books and articles
• find the citation for a book or an article
• get to electronic full text
• find a book you can checkout from the library
• find books in other CUNY libraries and have them sent to you for pick up

13. Using the Library in the Future
• Find the best resources for papers, no matter what the subject, through our research guides
• Look for links to databases
• Find help with working off-campus
• Get help anytime with Ask-a-Librarian