Research Skills TutorialIf we could make only one recommendation to our students, it would be to take this tutorial. It steps you through the research process from beginning to end.
* Formulating a research question
* Getting background information with reference books
* Understanding primary versus secondary sources
* Understanding scholarly versus popular sources
* Keywords, boolean operators, and searching in databases
* Evaluating your sources for quality and reliability; critical thinking
* Citing your sources
You can work through the tutorial from beginning to end, or go directly to the specific section that you need.