Tutorials on Research Techniques and Concepts
- Anatomy of a Scholarly ArticleInteractive web site lets you look at different parts of a scholarly article so that you can recognize one when you see one, and know how to take it apart for meaning. From North Carolina State University.
- Books versus JournalsA side-by-side comparison of information from books versus journals:
* how each is useful for research in a different way
* how each of them is created differently and has a different kind/level of information
* how to find them - Is Most Published Research Wrong?Hint: the answer is important, but complicated.
- Primary Sources - Making Sense of EvidenceThis set of tutorials explains how primary sources are used in research.
- Searching for Information Sources: Citation ChainingA good trick for finding more sources like the one you've got.
- Wikipedia: Beneath the SurfaceFind out how Wikipedia works & how to evaluate information in it. From North Carolina State University Library.
