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Research Strategies: Overview

Class Overview

This Research Strategies guide is created for any class to use as a research support guide. 

Credit: Adapted from OER Resource: Home - Research Now! - LibGuides at University of Connecticut (uconn.edu) it is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 4.0 International License. | Details and Exceptions 

Research Help!

Research Now! guides help you develop your research skills - from forming a research question, to understanding how information is created and used, to finding and evaluating resources critically and responsibly. 

Using Research Now!

 

Get Started

  • Get Started
  • Read (and Understand!) the Assignment
  • Selecting a Topic
  • Background Research
  • Information Timeline
  • Initial Searching
  • Form a Research Question

Explore Information

  • Why use Library Information?
  • The Information Lifecycle
  • Primary & Secondary Sources
  • Understanding & Recognizing Peer Review

Find Information

  • Coming up with Keywords
  • Finding Books
  • Searching for Articles
  • Using Google Scholar
  • Revising & Refining Searches
  • Discovering More Sources

Evaluate Resources

  • Confirmation Bias
  • Authority
  • Evaluation Toolkit
  • Assess the Information Found

Understand Citations

  • Integrating Sources (Quote, Paraphrase, Summarize)
  • Citation Styles & Management
  • Reading Citations
  • Plagiarism Tutorial

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