For your Wellness paper, you need to select a topic of interest, research the history of topic, and look into the risks and/or benefits of the topic, both in the long and short term.
You need to be able to cite five primary sources (not Wikipedia). These might include articles or books by experts in the field, or information from the National Institutes of Health or another governmental organization.
This guide will help you get all the information you need. If you'd like help, please visit the library!
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Wellness Issues
Picking your topic:
Think of a topic related to health and wellness that is interesting to you. This might be an illness or condition that's affected someone close to you, a health-related lifestyle practice, or a behavior that has long-term effects. Examples: diabetes, sun exposure/skin cancer, macrobiotic diet, sleep disorders, bulimia, hearing loss, cigarette smoking...
To brainstorm for ideas, browse the Health Topics / MedlinePlus link below.
To brainstorm for ideas, browse the Health Topics / MedlinePlus link below.
Getting facts and background information:
Health Topics / MedlinePlus
Information on a wide variety of health topics from the National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health. Provides links to online resources from carefully selected, reliable sources such as the Nemours Foundation, the American Academy of Family Physicians, and the Mayo Clinic.
The Merck Manual of medical information -- Home Edition
Explains diseases in simple English. Multimedia resources (animations, audio, photographs and videos) help illustrate complex subjects. Each topic has links to an audio glossary and multimedia.
Searching for books or journals:
Tripod library catalog
For locating books, journals, videos, and electronic resources held at Tri-College libraries. You can mark and then email or print records for multiple items. Use the request option to ask for items from Haverford or Swarthmore. Delivery is usually within one or two days.
To find materials on a topic, try doing a keyword search in the Tripod Catalog to find relevant materials and then using the subject headings assigned to those titles to find more material.
Examples: bulimia [subject search] "body image" [keyword search; use quotes for the phrase]
To find materials on a topic, try doing a keyword search in the Tripod Catalog to find relevant materials and then using the subject headings assigned to those titles to find more material.
Examples: bulimia [subject search] "body image" [keyword search; use quotes for the phrase]
Searching for articles:
SOURCES FOR DIFFERENT TYPES OF ARTICLES (popular, scholarly, newsletters, etc.)
ProQuest Research Library
Provider: ProQuest
Provides citations and full-text magazine and journal articles in a wide variety of disciplines, both scholarly and popular. Includes Prevention and many other titles in health and medicine. Covers 1971-date.
GenderWatch
Offers full-text access to scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, books, conference proceedings, government and non-governmental organization reports. Materials focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas. Covers 1970-present.
SCHOLARLY OR MEDICAL JOURNAL ARTICLES
PubMed
Provider: NCBI
PubMed includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources. This is the best source for serious articles from the medical literature.
ReleMed
Enter your search terms and ReleMed searches PubMed for the best matches, then displays the most relevant results first.
Web of science
Provider: ISI
Provides access to the Social Sciences Citation Index, Science Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index. Search for scholarly articles in any discipline, or for articles that cite a known author or work. Coverage varies.
Citing your sources:
When you quote or paraphrase information from any published source, you must cite that source. For tips on avoiding unintentional plagiarism, please consult this excellent guide from Indiana University: Plagiarism: What It is and How to Recognize and Avoid It.
For instant satisfaction, try the NCSU Library's Citation Builder. This tool creates citations in the most popular formats at the click of your mouse.
Pick a citation style that you are comfortable with, and use it throughout your paper. The library's Citation & Style Guides page points to web pages and handouts on the various styles.
For instant satisfaction, try the NCSU Library's Citation Builder. This tool creates citations in the most popular formats at the click of your mouse.
Getting human help!
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