| Introduction: Understanding Annotations | Tutorial: Annotated Bibliographies | Use this tutorial to hep identify the purpose, structure, and content of annotated bibliographies and create the annotation. |
| Identify Your Research Question | Tutorial: Developing a Research Focus | Introduction ro pre-research techniques to determine the scope and depth of their research focus. |
| Summarize the article or book | Video: How to Narrow Your Topic | This will outline the process to help student hone in on a interesting research topic with appropriate scope using strategies like strategic searching. |
| Assess the source for usefulness and reliability | Tutorial: Evaluating Information | Familiarize yourself with strategies for evaluating sources based on these criteria: authority, accuracy, currency, relevance, and objectivity. |
| Video: What Is Authority | Learn about the concept of authority, how it relates to research, source selection, evaluation, and attribution. | |
| Video: Intro to Bias | Learn about what bias and prejudice are and teh important of awareness of one's own bias and teh bias of others when evaluating sources and situations, and responding to arguments. | |
| Video: Types of Bias | This video builds on the previous one buy discussing specific types of bias such as social bias, confirmation bias, and communal reinforcement. | |
| Use A Variety of Sentence Structures |
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This video focuses on some of the most important elements of successful writing with an emphasis on mechanics, including brevity, clarity, sentence variety and transitions, spelling and grammar, and seeking out resources for writing help. |
| Create a Bibliographic Expression | These tutorials and videos provide overviews to the major citation style guides, including both in-text citation format and works cited format. Tutorials include checkpoints questions with drag and drop practice exercises. | |
| Video: Turabian Citation Style | ||
| Use A Mix of Scholarly and Other High Quality Sources | Video: Types of Sources Tutorial: Source Types |
Use this video and tutorial to learn more about locating, recognizing, and evaluating relevant sources to meet your research needs. |
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Tutorial: How to Read Scholarly Materials |
Learn about the types and components of scholarly materials as well as strategies for improving reading. | |
| Avoid Low-Credibilty Sources | Video: Types of Sources Tutorial: Source Types |
Use this video and tutorial to learn more about locating, recognizing, and evaluating relevant sources to meet your research needs. |
| Tutorial: Choosing the Best Web Source | With so much information available online, it is important to be able to locate and evaluate reliable, high quality information. Use this tutorial and the Debunking video below to learn strategies for navigating and evaluating open web resources. | |
| Video: Identifying Misiinformation |