- Beginning the Research Process
- determine the goal of your research project
- determine the kind of information necessary to meet your goal
- primary vs. secondary
- popular vs. scholarly (peer reviewed)
- current vs. historical (or both)
- facts, commentary, criticism, report of research
- find background information on your topic
- find appropriate types of information resources for your topic
- books, journal articles, news sources
- refine your topic (broaden/narrow)
- Basic Reference Sources
- Library Catalog
- Research Databases
- Research on the Web
- Evaluating Information
- learn how to question the place, context, and time in which information
is produced
- learn how to recognize the authority, reliability, and potential biases
of the original source of information
- Credit Where Credit Is Due
- be aware of intellectual property and basic copyright issues
- understand when sources should be credited, how to do so properly
- understand conventions of scholarly research
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- Information world
- Organization of Information
- Database Structure
- Database Searching
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