Library Instruction Goals
This guide should help you:
- Form an approach to tackling your assignment.
- Use keywords related to your concept art's topic to search.
- Explore the library's information resources.
- Distinguish between popular and peer-reviewed articles.
- Evaluate the information you are finding on your topic.
- Organize and manage the information you are finding & plan on using.
- Create your 'proof of concept' based partially on the information you find.
Assignment and research approach
Sometimes, a structured approach to research can help to organize ideas and the way you think about information sources:
1. Explore the possibilities (casual web searching)
2. Get some background knowledge in your head (books)
3. Read up on current research ( journal articles)
4. Support your argument/debate (cite your sources)
5. Drafts & revisions (research librarians & learning commons)
In today's library session you will be learning about how to search
for #2 and #3 from up above,
and I will cover the basics of #4 as well.
Citation Help
For this assignment you will be using MLA as your citation style.
RefWorks is a "next-generation" citation management tool that can help researchers cite sources in all of styles most commonly used at SU like APA, MLA, Chicago, Turabian, ACS, AMA, and thousands of others. With this tool, researchers can gather, organize, read, annotate, and cite their research sources. Plus, RefWorks creates an online collaboration space that enables groups of researchers to work together from any location.