You should have located a minimum of eight sources to discuss.
Choose a specific court case that you find interesting. You may choose a more recent case, such as the George Floyd murder trial, the R. Kelly child pornography trial, or the criminal trial of any of Donald Trump’s many advisors, or you may choose an event from history, such as the trial of the Chicago Eight, the trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, the tax-evasion trial of Al Capone, or the trial of the officers that beat Rodney King. You do not have to choose a criminal trial, but in most instances those cases are easier for this assignment.
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The LBCC Library, like many academic libraries at colleges and universities, lives within the credible web domain of .edu.
The Spectrum of Credibility helps illustrate why your professors want you to use library sources. After all, librarians and scholars have spent decades curating credible resources for students like you to easily access and use.
You will likely begin by searching one or more of your keywords in the Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC), also known as OneSearch.
Learn how to use OneSearch to find books, ebooks, articles, and other media that are housed within the LBCC Library, academic databases, and even at external publisher sites.
Get started right away! enter keywords into the OneSearch bar below.
Learn how to explore individual academic databases that are relevant to the assignment. We'll learn about general (multi-disciplinary) databases and subject-specific databases.
Or jump in right now. Use these popular multi-disciplinary databases to search for a little bit of everything.
Covering Humanities, Arts, Sciences, and Social Sciences, this very popular database is user-friendly, with a clean and simple interface. A "Go To" websites for college students.
A great student oriented database with current events, consumer health, and career information. Topic overviews, reports, biographies, journal articles, and more. Education majors can access Curriculum Standards.
One of the most used and popular academic databases for college students, Proquest uses a student-friendly layout and covers business, medical, social sciences, arts and humanities, education, science and technology, and religion. Formats include books, articles, dissertations, videos and blogs. Use the thesaurus tool to use the databases' keywords.
Learn about effective search and evaluation strategies when searching the World Wide Web for relevant and credible sources.
Get started right now with effective "domain" searches:
