HOW TO START YOUR RESEARCH
| Planning |
Finding and Evaluating |
Accessing |
Contextualizing, Synthesizing, Communicating |
- Planning your research timeline
- Understanding your assignment
- brainstorming ideas
- Narrowing down big ideas
- Picking a topic is research
- Databases for background information
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- Brainstorming search terms
- Subject-specific databases
- Citation mining
- Scanning an article
- Evaluating sources
- Finding diverse sources
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- Reading call numbers
- Interlibrary loan
- Course reserves
- Circulation policies
- Putting a book on hold
- Self-checkout
- Off-campus access
- Paid vs open materials
- Open-source tools
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- Scholarly conversations
- Synthesizing information into your paper
- Plagiarism and citations
- Integrating citations
- Writing help
- Technology alternatives for presentations
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