New acquisitions: selections

Van Horne, James C. and John M. Wachowicz, Jr. Fundamentals of Financial Management. 13th ed. Harlow, Essex: Pearson Education, 2009.

This a required reading for your Agricultural Finance class.

Copies are available at the Reserve collection. Call number RES 658.15 Van

Check this link for more information about this title.

Spears, Deanne M. Improving Reading Skills: Contemporary Reading for College Students. 5th ed. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2003.

This title belongs with the Recommended readings for the class
Intermediate Reading /Vocabulary 1.

This title will be available for loan at the Circulating collection. Call number 428.64 Mil

Check this link for additional information.

Murphy, Raymond. Essential Grammar in Use. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

This a required reading for your Intermediate reading / Vocabulary I classes.

Copies are available at the Reserve collection.

Check this link for any additional information regarding this title.

Interesting articles

Check out the latest issue of Organic Farming Magazine, Winter 2008, Issue 9 received at the Library.

There is an interesting article on page 36 under the title " Pointers for Profitability: what are the key characteristics of a profitable organic farmer or grower".

Also, check the Successful Farming magazine December 2008 issue on how creativity in your agricultural business can save you money. You can also start reading the article when you press here

Parenthetical citations: print sources

When you are writing a research paper “you must indicate to your readers not only what works you used in writing the paper but also exactly what you derived from each source and exactly where in the work you found the material” (Gibaldi 204). So wherever you use in your assignments another person’s words or ideas you must provide the appropriate information using parenthetical or in-text citations. Parenthetical citations lead your readers to the Works Cited list which is located at the end of your document.

Print Sources

In print resources like books, magazines, or journals the author (s) last name (s) and the specific page number (s) identify your source.

For example we have the book

Farkas, Meredith. Social Software in Libraries. Medford, NJ: Information Today, 2007.

and you selected to use a sentence from this book in your assignment and it is from page 179.

There are two ways you can write the quotation.

In the first way you open a quote, write down the sentence, close the quote, leave one space and in the parenthesis you write the surname of the author, again leave one space, write down the page number and close the parenthesis.
“We are becoming an increasingly mobile society, where people are able to access the web and communicate virtually no matter where they are” (Farkas 179).

The second way to cite a direct quote is to include the authors name in the sentence. For example:

According to Farkas “we are becoming an increasingly mobile society, where people are able to access the web and communicate virtually no matter where they are” (179).

In this case and since the name of the author is already mentioned in the text you just write in the parenthesis the page number.

Note: if you have a print source with two authors’ you use both authors, for example (Jacobson and Waugh 210).

Works cited

Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 5th ed. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 1999.

Citations: Electronic sources

An entire web site

Basic format:
Name of Site. Date of Posting/Revision. Name of institution/organization affiliated with the site (sometimes found in copyright statements). Date you accessed the site [electronic address].

For example:

Felluga, Dino. Guide to Literary and Critical Theory. 28 Nov. 2003. Purdue University. 10 November 2008 http://www.cla.purdue.edu/english/theory.

A page on a web site
Wikipedia example

For an individual page on a Web site, list the author, followed by the information covered above for entire Web sites. Make sure the URL points to the exact page you are referring to, or the entry or home page for a collection of pages you're referring to

"Caret." Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. 28 April 2006. 10 May 2006 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Caret&oldid=157510440 .

An Article in a Web Magazine

Basic Format
Author(s). "Title of Article." Title of Online Publication. Date of Publication. Date of Access.

Example:

Bernstein, Mark. "10 Tips on Writing The Living Web." A List Apart: For People Who Make Websites. 16 August 2002. 4 May 2006 http://alistapart.com/articles/writeliving.


For more details on citing electronic sources visit the Owl at Purdue web site

Citations: Print sources

These are basic guidelines to form proper citations for books. If you need any further clarifications please do not hesitate to ask!

A Book by a Single Author

REVERSE the AUTHOR’S NAME for alphabetizing

Write the title of the book and italicize

Publication information to include: Place of publication: Publisher and Year of publication

Example:

Buck, Pearl S. The Good Earth. New York, N.Y.: Washington Square Press, 1958.

A Book by Two Authors

• Give authors' names in same order as on the title page.
• Reverse the name of the first author only, add a comma, and
• Give the other name(s) in normal form.

Example:

Tyson, Shaun, and Alfred York. Human Resource Management. Oxford: Butterworth - Heinemann, 1996.

A Book by Three or More Authors

• Reverse the name of the first author ONLY
• Add a comma and write the name of the second author then
• add comma the word AND and the name of the third author

Example:

Barry, Peter J., John A. Hopkin, and C. B. Baker. Financial Management in Agriculture. Danville, Illinois: Interstate, 1995.

Subtitle

Lansdale, Bruce M. Cultivating Inspired Leaders: Making Participatory Management Work. West Hartford, Conn.: Kumarian Press, 2000.

State TITLE in FULL, INCLUDING any SUBTITLE. If the book has a subtitle, put a colon directly after the main title

In both titles and subtitles, CAPITALIZE the FIRST WORDS

ITALICIZE the entire title including the subtitle.

A Book Published in a Second or Subsequent Edition

When using a later edition of a work, identify the edition by number (2nd ed., 3rd ed.) or by name (rev. ed.)

Example:

Parker, Charles, and Thomas Case. Management Information Systems: Strategy and Action. 2nd ed. New York: Mitchell McGraw-Hill, 1993.

Encyclopedias and dictionaries

Cite the piece as you would in any other work in a collection but do not include the publisher information.

If the article is signed, give the author first; if it is not give the title first.

If the reference book is organized alphabetically, as most are, you may omit the volume or the page number of the article or item.

Encyclopedia example:

Mohanty, Jitendra M. “Indian Philosophy.” The New Encyclopaedia Britannica: Macropedia. 15th ed. 1987.

“Mandarin.” The Encyclopedia Americana. 1994 ed.

Library Resource Guide for the Grammar II module

Following are free online exercises for those of you who want to practice your English grammar skills:

• Articles, Nouns, Expressions of Quantity

Grammar Exercises - 'Articles'

English Media Lab quiz: Definite or Indefinite article

Grammar Exercises - 'Countable-Uncountable'

• Types of Clauses (Definite and Indefinite)

The writing Center – Hyper Grammar, Building clauses

http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/if-clauses.html

English Grammar Online 4U – Conditional Sentences

• Tenses
  

English Tenses Timeline Chart

All tenses: Theory And Exercises

Grammar Exercises - 'Tenses'

Present Tenses

Grammar Exercises - Present

Simple Present Tense Quiz

Past and Perfect Tenses

Future

Grammar Exercises - 'Future'

Interactive exercises – future tenses

Future Time Quiz

Library Print Resource Guide for the Grammar modules

Note: This guide is a list of resources the Library holds and proposes for the purposes of the Grammar courses

Print Resources: Next to each book title there is the call number in the parenthesis so you can locate the book on the library shelves. If you still have a problem you can always ask at the reference desk.

Boukouvalas, John. Getting to Cambridge. Athens : Boukouvalas, 1995(428.24 Get)

Bozini, Agapi. Methodology and teaching practice. Thessaloniki, Greece : CODEX publications, 1994 – (Ref 428.24 Boz)

Dixson, Robert James. Grammar essentials : graded exercises in English. White Plains, NY : Longman, c2004 (RES 428.2 Dix)

Eggenschwiler, Jean. Writing : grammar, usage, and style. Lincoln, Neb. : Cliffs Notes, c1997 – (REF 808.042 Egg)

Hacker, Diana. Rules for writers : a brief handbook. New York : St. Martin's Press, c1985 – (808.02 Hac)

Hacker, Diana. A writer's reference. 3rd ed. Boston : Bedford Books, c1995
(REF 428.2 Hac)

Hairston, Maxine. The Scott, Foresman handbook for writers. 6th ed. New York : Longman, c2002 – (808.042 Hai)

Murphy, Raymond. English grammar in use : a reference and practice book for intermediate students. 2nd ed. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1994
(428.2 Mur)

Soars, Liz. Headway. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1991 (RES 428.24 Soa)

Soars, Liz. New headway English course. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1996
(RES 428.24 Soa)

Soars, John. New headway English course Pre-Intermediate student's book. [Oxford] : Oxford University Press, 2000 – (CAS 428.24 Soa)

Soars, John. New headway English course Upper-Intermediate student's book. [Oxford] : Oxford University Press, c2005 (RES 428.24 Soa)