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Need a topic for your paper? Check out Opposing Viewpoints

Do you have an argumentative paper, or you need a current topic to tackle for an assignment?  One series of books we have, Opposing Viewpoints, was made just for that.

Today’s Book of the Day, Homeschooling: Opposing Viewpoints, edited by Noah Berlatsky, is a collection of scholarly articles and news sources portraying both those in favor and those against homeschooling.  This is how all of the books are set up, and also how the companion database is portrayed (must have campus login for database).  The books are on the shelves, just do a title search for “Opposing Viewpoints” in our catalog (or click here and I’ll do it for you. We’re cool like that). If you’ve never checked out the series before, I highly recommend it. It’s a great place to get started for a lot of different assignments you’ll get across different classes.

Do the Pandemic

SWINE FLU!

Just kidding.  But not by much: Today’s book is called Resurgent Diseases, a collection of articles arguing both sides of issues surrounding fears, realities, proper responses, mass hysteria, and other fun things that come when diseases poke their heads out from hiding. It is part of the Opposing Viewpoints series.  If you’re not familiar with them, let’s do some talking.

You need to know about this series if you will ever be in the market for a persuasive paper. The whole goal of the series is to take a topic (like, say, I don’t know… resurgent diseases..), dissect the different arguments within the broad topic, and provide a collection of articles debating different points of view.  The end of each chapter also contains a bibliography of additional resources that argue both sides of the topic.  Basically, if you ever needed a topic for a paper or sources for it, just one book will load. you. up.

Here’s a quick step by step for finding them.

  • Open the catalog
  • Click “Advanced Search”
  • Type opposing viewpoints into the first text field
  • select as a phrase in the drop-down to the right
  • Where it says “Search In”, select keyword.
  • Click Search

When the page loads, you’ll see 350+ results.  There’s a drop-down that says Sort by: Choose “Publish Date Descending”.  You’ll now have the most recent first.