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English language– Political aspects, English- only movement, Bilingual

education — also give you additional key words to use in finding relevant

information. The lesson here is that it is important to generate keywords

to get initial information and then to look at that information carefully

for more keywords and to determine if the source has a bibliography.

Even if this particular source isn’t relevant, it may lead you to other

sources that are.

■ try Browsing

Browse is a headings search; it appears in the menu of choices in

Figure 6.1 as “Subject begins with.. .” This type of search allows you to

scroll through an alphabetical index. Some of the indexes available are the

Author Index, the Title Index, and the Library of Congress Subject Head­

ings, a subject index. Browse

•   displays an alphabetical list of entries;

•   shows the number of records for each entry;

•   indicates whether there are cross­ references for each entry.

What appears in the window is “Browse List: Choose a field, enter a phrase

and click the ‘go’ button.” Figure 6.3 shows the results of a preliminary

browse when the words “ English­ only” are entered. Notice that a list of

headings or titles appears on the screen. This is not a list of books, and not

all of the entries are relevant. But you can use the list to determine which

headings are relevant to your topic, issue, or question.

For your paper on the English­ only movement, the first two headings

seem relevant: English- only debate and English- only movement. A further

FIGURE 6.3 Preliminary Browse of “ English­ only” Subject Heading

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