LIBRARY RESEARCH PAPER ASSIGNMENT
Information literacy is defined by the American Library Association as the ability to “recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information.” The development of information literacy has been defined as a learning outcome for this program and as a learning objective for this course.
Students in this assignment will be required to:
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Define the need for information required to solve problems;
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Effectively access needed information;
• Critically evaluate information and its sources;
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Utilize information effectively to solve problems; and
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Adhere to copyright policies and standards for citation.
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Opportunities for the development of skills in information literacy and use of the
CECybrary will be determined by the instructor through specific assignments and activities.
Grading Rubric
Power Point presentation
Final paper
100 points
100 points
PowerPoint presentation is an opportunity to share with fellow students what you have learned about your topic. It provides information so that the knowledge base may be expanded be bringing to light more than would be learned by just doing a single paper all by one’s self. It also provides the opportunity to become comfortable speaking to a small group in a professional manner. It would be the same as if you were pitching a concept to a client for a job.
Library Research Paper
Write a 4-6 page paper with one inch margins, double spaced, 12 point Times New Roman. This amounts to approximately 1200 to 1500 words. Include quotes from the artist, and contemporaries, admirers and critics. Place quote in quotations and use italic font. Use bold font subheads at the beginning of paragraph for new or changed topic.
Footnotes are notes that appear at the bottom of the page. Include footnotes they should be consecutively numbered throughout your paper using Arabic numbers in superior and / or superscript configuration. It looks like.
1 In addition to the text copy also include images from the topic to illustrate your paper (write the paper, then enter the images, paper should be 4-6 pages without images). These visuals should include reference or figure number, their own text description or artist, title, date, medium, size and current location. (Example: Fig. 1.2
CLAUDE
MONET, Impression Sunrise, 1872, Oil on Canvas, 1’ 7 1 /2” x 2, 1 1 /2”, Musee Marmottan, Paris.)
Note: different uses of bold, caps, italics and superior attributes.
Include your personal response or reaction to the subject as you summarize and conclude your paper.

Cover Page: Title, by Your Name, Date and Class
Do not turn paper in with a presentation folder . Print a cover page with the title of your paper, your name, date and course; typed and centered on the page. Staple altogether at top left-hand corner.
Final Page: Works cited and Bibliography, include only sources used.
Bibliography or Works Cited is your list of works from which you have extracted quotes and other information specific to your paper. The list is alphabetical by author unless no author is given then the title is used. List the full title next. Underline or use italics for the titles of books and periodicals, use quotation marks for articles, poems, essays and parts of books. Use periods to separate each element.
For books , cite the publisher’s city and a shortened form of the publisher’s name, example:
Berkeley: Peachpit Press, 2003. Use only the first city printed on the title page and the most recent copyright date.
For Journals , cite the volume, year, and full pages: 10 (1994): 144-69.
For Magazines , the date and full pages: Design Graphics Sep. 2002: 60-61. (Use 60+ if pages are not continuous.)
Each line of entry should be double spaced and the second line indented five spaces.
When there are two or more works by the same author use 3 hyphens followed by a period instead of the author’s name.
For Websites , Electronic address or URL of the resource (in <angle brackets>). If possible, however, show the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) of the web-site in its entirely without break or inappropriate hyphens at line-endings and without spaces. (Provide the URL its own line if necessary.)
<www.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/verbs.htm#subjunctive>
Note: also, that spelling and, sometimes, even decisions about which case to use can be critically important in reporting URLs.
Format
Biography / Research
Individual Biographical Sketch, or Compare and Contrast; Choose 1, 2 or 3 artists who worked in the same movement, or instead you could explore an innovative approach, movement, invention that altered illustrative art.
WARNING!
DO NOT PLAGIARIZE YOUR PAPER!
I F YOU COPY AND PASTE SOMEONE ELSE ’ S WRITINGS , YOU HAVE JUST PLAGIARIZED .
Plagiarizing is the same as stealing and it is a copyright law violation. It is so easy to find out if a paper or portion of that paper is plagiarized. It means a zero for that assignment the first time it is found out; a failure for the course the second time and dismissal if found to violate this policy again.

What You Need:
I. Choose a Topic and Gather Information Content: Circumstances, birth—when and where; death—when, where and how if pertinent. Note artists’ family, schools, teachers, cultural, and regional influences. What was unique or different, what was similar to other artists’ styles or approaches?
A. Key concepts, people, etc.
B. Definitions, pertinent details
II. Answer “Newspaper Questions” Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?
Who: are the artists, who was influential to their artistic expression family members, teachers, fellow artist, benefactors, etc.?
What: schools, influences, styles, trends are their differences, and or similarities in their works.
When: did they live? What were the particular factors that made life unique then? How did that uniqueness influence the artist’s work?
Where: did they live, work? What were the particular factors that made life unique there? How did that uniqueness influence the artist’s work?
Why: did they do what they did? Any compelling influences?
How: did they work? What technique did they use, did they innovate something new or different?
Was their work influential to succeeding artist, did it affect culture, social morays, how long did this last?
III. Context
A. Influencing people, factors and history before and after to get a setting.
B. Note how this information contributes to your understanding.
IV. Observe Unique Nature of Your Subject Matter
A. Why this particular material?
B. Is a picture being created?
C. Are there any particulars?
D. Is there a truth or something new to reveal?
E. How do unique details gathered help see a specific significance to this topic?
V. Write Your Thesis Statement
A. What is the subject of your paper?
B. What can you tell us about this subject?
C. State your subject a description about it in one single sentence.
VI. Application
A. What does this teach the reader about your subject?
B. What is the significance of this topic to the current artist and craftsman and society in general?
VII. Write Drafts
A. Check grammar, spelling and comprehensiveness

B. Write second draft, make any necessary corrections
C. Have at least three different people proofread for errors
D. Write final include Bibliography or Works Cited
TOPICS
DESIGNERS Alexey Brodovitch 1898-1971 Russia
Walter Crane 1845-1915 Arts & Crafts
Selwyn Image 1849-1930
Arthur H. Mackmurdo 1851-1942
Karel Teige 1900-1951 Czech Constructivism
Herbert Bayer 1900-1985 Austria Bauhaus
Antonio Boggeri 1900-1989 Italian Modernism
Henry Van De Velde 1863-1957 Belgium Art
Nouveau
Charles R. Ashbee 1863-1942
Lucien Pissarro 1863-1944 & Esther Pissarro c.1903
Frederick Goudy 1865–1947
Koloman Moser 1868-1918 Austria
Charles Rennie MacKintosh 1868-1928 Scotch Art
A. M. Cassandre 1901-1968 France Modernist
Jan Tschichold 1902-1974 German
Lester Beall 1903-1969 America Modernist
Alexander Schawinsky 1904-1979 Swiss-German
Herbert Matter 1907-84 Swiss Modernist
Bruno Munari 1907-1998 Italy Futurist
Cipe Pineles 1908-91 America Female Art Director
Max Bill 1908-1994 Swiss Modernist
Nouveau
Peter Behrens 1868-1940 Germany Arts & Crafts
Wil Bradley 1868-1964 America Art Nouveau
Josef Hoffmann 1870-1956 Austrian Art Deco
Bruce Rogers 1870-1957
Morris F. Benton 1872-1948 Linotype
Piet Mondrian 1872–1944 Dutch
Rudolf Koch 1876-1934
Herbert Horne 1880-1920
Hendrik Werkman 1882-1945 Dutch
El Lissitzky 1890-1941 Russia Avant-Garde
Alexander Rodchenko 1891-1956 Russia
E. McKnight Kauffer 1891-1968 America Modernist
Eric Gill 1882-1940 Britain Arts & Crafts
Theo Van Doesburg 1883–1931 Dutch
Laszlo Moholy-nagy 1895-1946 Hungary Bauhaus
John Read c. 1896
Ladislav Sutnar 1897-1976 Czech Avant-Garde
Leo Lionni 1910-1999 Dutch
Bernard Villemot 1911-1989 France Poster
Designer
F. H. K. Henrion 1914-1990 Germany
Paul Rand 1914-1996 America Modernist
Abram Games 1914-96 Britian Modernist
Josef Muller-Brockmann 1914-1996 Swiss
Modernist
Henryk Tomaszewski 1914- Poland Modern
Yusaku Kamekura 1915-1997 Japan Modern
Herb Lubalin 1918-1981 America Typography
Hermann Zapf 1918- Linotype
Olle Eksell 1918- Sweden Modernist
Saul Bass 1920-1996 America Film Marketing
Robert Brownjohn 1925-1970 America Modern
Theo Crosby 1925-1994 Britain “Pentagram”
Muriel Cooper 1925-1994 American Digital Medium
Robert Massin 1925- France

Wim Crouwel 1928- Dutch Modern
Milton Glaser 1929- America “Push Pin Studio”
Kenneth Grange 1929- Britain “Pentagram”
Roman Cieslewicz 1930-1996 Poland
Expressionism
Ikko Tanaka 1930- Japan Japan Style
Seymour Chwast 1931- America “Push Pin Studio”
Massimo Vignelli 1931- Italy Modernist
Alan Fletcher 1931- Britain “Pentagram”
Colin Forbes 1931- Britain “Pentagram” van Chermayeff 1932- America Modernist
Jan Van Toorn 1932- Dutch
Mervyn Kurlansky 1936- Britain “Pentagram”
Eiko Ishioka 1939- Japan
Gert Dumbar 1940- Dutch Postmodern
Sheila Levrant de Bretteville 1940- America
Feminist Designer
Bruno Monguzzi 1941- Swiss Modernist
Dan Friedman 1945-1995 America Modernist
Reid Miles c. 1950’s Jazz Album Jackets
Javier Mariscal 1950- Spain
Rudy VanderLans 1955- Dutch Digital
ILLUSTRATORS
Kitagawa Utamaro c. 1753-1806 Japan
Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849 Japan
Ando Hiroshige 1797-1858 Japan
Joseph Adams c. 1844-1844
Gustave Dore 1832-1883 France Engraving
Fredrick Walker c. 1871
Randolph Caldecott c. 1880
Howard Pyle c. 1883
Charles Dana Gibson c. 1895
Jules Cheret c. 1860-1896
Eugene Grasset c. 1883-1894
Aubrey Beardsley c. 1893
Jan Toorop c. 1893
William Morse c. 1883-1896
Charles Ricketts c. 1894-1900
The Beggarstaffs c. 1895-96
Dudley Hardy 1866-1922
William Nicholson 1872-1949
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 1864-1901 Post-
Impressionist
Maxfield Parrish 1870-1966 Am. Golden Age
Illustrator