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LIVING IN THE REAL WORLD -- USEM 1000
WEB RESOURCES

Web Resources

• SPU Library Sociology Resources
  • Children (e.g.):
    • Child Trends DataBank (Child Trends--a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization)
    • NCCP: National Center for Children in Poverty (a nonprofit, nonpartisan research and policy organization with a mission to identify and promote strategies that prevent child poverty in the United States and that improve the lives of low-income children and families; Columbia University)
  • Crime & Criminal Justice (e.g.):
    • Bureau of Justice Statistics (U.S. Department of Justice)
    • Criminal Justice & Crime (University of Louisville)
    • Juvenile Justice Links (Eastern Kentucky University)
    • NCJRS: National Criminal Justice Reference Service (a federally funded resource sponsored by U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and Executive Office of the President)
  • Environmental Justice (e.g.):
    • Environmental Justice (University of Michigan)
    • Environmental Justice: Information Resources (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)
  • Housing (e.g.):
    • DPLS: Internet Crossroads: Housing (University of Wisconsin--Madison)
    • Joint Center for Housing Studies (Harvard University)
    • National Housing Institute (an independent nonprofit organization that examines the issues causing the crisis in housing and community in America)
    • National Low Income Housing Coalition (an organization dedicated solely to ending America’s affordable housing crisis)
  • Poverty (e.g.):
    • Institute for Research on Poverty (University of Wisconsin--Madison)
    • Windows on Urban Poverty (University of Texas--Dallas)

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• Plagiarism--How to Avoid (e.g.):
  • Plagiarism: What It is and How to Recognize and Avoid It
• Style Manuals (includes MLA citation sites)
   

• ASCD: For the Success of All Learners (do <poverty> search; an educational organization with results-based, research-driven knowledge about teaching and learning; Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development)
• Institute for Urban and Minority Education (do <poverty> search; Columbia University)
• U.S. Department of Education
   

Web Handouts

• SPU Library University Seminar Handouts
  • Living in the Real World (USEM 1000)
     
• SPU General Library Handouts
  • CRITIC: Evaluating Information Sources (PDF file)
  • Evaluating Web Pages (plus search strategies)
  • Magazines vs. Journals