Opposing Viewpoints


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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is a resource for middle to upper school students.

Opposing Viewpoints offers a range of current articles addressing issues in society, with up-to-date information from a variety of resources.

It is largely American in content, featuring a range of Gale’s reference resources, primary documents, and full-text magazines.

It offers both general and scholarly resources, government and organizational statistics, as well as multi-media records including pictures, illustrations, audio and video clips.

Search via basic/advanced searches, subject headings, or publications.

There is also a useful subject search based on the Victorian Education Curriculum and Standards Framework for Social Sciences and Science. It covers Year 6- 12.

At the top of the search results are tabs for choosing resources from: Viewpoints, Reference, Magazines, Academic Journals, News, Primary Sources, Statistics, Multimedia, and Websites.

The Viewpoints tab provides argumentative articles on the chosen subject.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center also includes a translation feature, which allows users to translate documents Spanish, French, Japanese, German, Italian, Portuguese, simplified Chinese, and Korean.

There is a toolbox link which instructs on research tools such as: how to make a concept cloud, how to build an argument, how to footnote.

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For more information about Opposing Viewpoints go here:

http://www.gale.cengage.com/OpposingViewpoints/more.htm

For a powerpoint presentation on using Opposing Viewpoints go here:
http://www.gale.cengage.com/OpposingViewpoints/OVRC.ppt

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Access is through the Information on the web page under Encyclopedias and General Reference or Databases A-Z.

http://ezproxy.wev.vic.gov.au:80/login?url=http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/wh_manningham?db=OVRC

Test me

1. Find academic journal articles on Narcotics legalization.

2. Find news articles on teen (juvenile) drinking.

3. Find statistics on the Median Age at the Onset Mental Disorders

4. Using the Curriculum Standards link, help a Year 12 student find information and articles on globalisation (hint: Social Sciences – Economy and Society).