Library report

Duration: 25

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1983

Creator: BARR PRODUCTIONS ARTHUR

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Shows students the steps of researching, organizing, and writing a library report. Covers choosing and narrowing down a topic, finding information sources in the library, taking notes, organizing and outlining before writing, and writing and revising a rough draft., It is thirty years in the future, computers and robots are a part of everyday life. Beverly is assigned a library report which she thinks will be easy because she can have the family robot Kingpin write it. But no, Kingpin tells Beverly she must do the real work herself and he can only advise her. Beverly is taught the basic steps for researching, organizing, and writing a library report. She learns the important lesson that thinking and creating are her responsibility and cannot be assumed by a machine.

Complete Record: Shows students the steps of researching, organizing, and writing a library report. Covers choosing and narrowing down a topic, finding information sources in the library, taking notes, organizing and outlining before writing, and writing and revising a rough draft., It is thirty years in the future, computers and robots are a part of everyday life. Beverly is assigned a library report which she thinks will be easy because she can have the family robot Kingpin write it. But no, Kingpin tells Beverly she must do the real work herself and he can only advise her. Beverly is taught the basic steps for researching, organizing, and writing a library report. She learns the important lesson that thinking and creating are her responsibility and cannot be assumed by a machine.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.