Writing Help

As you gather and read information about your topic, collect citations and take notes about your sources in this downloadable article matrix. Use the article matrix to identify the themes written about in your articles. Once your matrix is filled out, you can easily see how different authors’ ideas relate to other authors’ ideas, and you can synthesize them in your writing.

Create personal accounts within our databases to save and access your resources anytime, anywhere, and from any device.

• CCC Library Catalog
  • Perform a search using the search box embedded on CCC Library's homepage.
  • Sign into the catalog with your myClackamas email address and password.
  • "Pin" items into your folder, save searches, email items to yourself, and more. See example.
     
• EBSCO databases (Academic Search Complete, CINAHL, EBSCO eBooks)
  • Sign into your EBSCO account.
  • Perform a search.
  • Save articles and searches, check out eBooks, create customized folders, share folders with classmates, and set up search alerts. See example.

• Gale databases (Academic OneFile, Gale eBooks / Gale Virtual Reference Library, Opposing Viewpoints)

  Option 1 Sign in to your Gale account. Perform a search. Save articles, searches, citations, and notes to your Gale account. See example.

  Option 2 Sign in with your Google account. Perform a search. Save articles, citations, and notes to Google Drive. Learn more.

• Google Scholar
  • Sign in to your Google account.
  • Perform a search.
  • Select Save to permanently save articles and citations to My library. See example.