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Get help managing your time, and instruction for all the steps in the university-level research process.
Topic Formation
Ways to tweak and narrow your topic and create a list of possible search words.
Video explaining the universal human mind trap of confirmation bias when seeking information.
Search Strategy
Brief video tutorial for using OneSearch.
How to request articles, book chapters, or theses and dissertations if not available in full-text in the library.
Cite and Evaluate Sources
Includes a link to an academic integrity quiz.
Quiz yourself on this handout as well! Take a brief quiz.
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Guidelines on how to analyze a social science article (or social science documentary film)
How Do Find and Use Scholarly and Peer-Reviewed Sources on My Topic?
Open Access textbook covering many aspects of doing college-level research.
Hint: you usually won't find one. Here are tips to help when that happens.
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video (3:24). How to use the references in scholarly articles to expand your search and find more relevant sources.