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For most undergraduate students, finding appropriate academic sources is a new skill, but researching and validating sources is essential towards establishing your credibility as an author and supporting your argument.
This point offers a comprehensive guide to understanding types of research materials, researching, and verifying sources.
Researching.mp4For those who prefer to read the slides and presentation transcript, click HERE for the original PowerPoint and notes.
In the video below, I review how to find a peer-reviewed source for a paper on Nella Larsen's Passing read through a Feminist Lens.
Researching Using the World Wide Web
Researching Using the World Wide Web
When researching, most students first turn to the worldwide web and perform a general search through a search engine. This video is designed to help students evaluate websites for currency, authority, purpose, objectivity, and writing style so that they can choose the best web sources to incorporate into their papers.
Researching Using Databases
Researching Using Databases
This video covers concepts related to searching within academic research databases, using EBSCO's Academic Search Complete and ProQuest Central as examples. Concepts covered are: using the advanced search, limiters, Boolean operators, citing from a database, and more. Concepts related to information literacy and research skills are covered.
Boolean Operators
Boolean Operators
Why use Boolean operators?
To focus a search, particularly when your topic contains multiple search terms.
To connect various pieces of information to find exactly what you're looking for.
Example:
second creation (title) AND wilmut and campbell (author) AND 2000 (year)
In this video, you'll learn how to format your search using the Boolean Modifiers quotes " ", asterisk *, and parenthesis ( ),
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