Library Guides: IDIS 335: Foundations of Interdisciplinary Studies: Overview

Library Instruction Goals

This guide can help you:

Form an approach to initiating the reserach assignment.

Explore topics for your paper or project. What motivates you?

Explore SU Library's information resources.

Start to gather information for an assignment.

Sometimes, a structured approach to research can help to organize ideas and the way you think about information sources:

1. Explore topic basics (causal web searching)

2. Depth & Breadth (library catalog: books)

3. Specific scholarly "conversations" (library databases: journal articles)

4. Support your argument (source citation)

5. Drafts & revisions (research librarians & learning commons)

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