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Beginning Research Tutorial
A tutorial on how to research information sources for assignments.
Introduction
Getting Started
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Read Your Assignment Carefully
Understand Your Assignment
Pick a Good Topic
Customize Your Topic
Turn Your Topic into a Question
Find Your Keywords
A Symphony of Synonyms
Explore Your Topic
A Timeline of Information
A Cycle of Revolving Research
Primary, Secondary & Tertiary Sources
Finding Sources
Deciding Where to Search
Start with OneSearch
Using OneSearch
What if I Just Want a Book?
Refining OneSearch
Finding Articles in Databases
Article Databases Basics
How Do I Find and Choose a Database?
How Do I Use a Database?
How Do I Find a Copy of the Article I Want?
Scholarly, Trade & Popular Journals
Searching Better
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Boolean Logic
Combining Boolean Operators
Try Truncation
Know Your Limits
Sort and Separate
Evaluating Information
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What's Appropriate?
Satire, Propaganda, and False Information
The ABCs of Evaluating Information
Who is the Author?
What is the Author's Bias?
What is the Context?
What is the Date of Publication?
Where's the Evidence?
What is the Format of the Source?
Citing Sources
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Citation Formats
Find The Bibliographic Information You Need to Cite A Book
Find The Bibliographic Information You Need To Cite An Article
Online and Digital Resources
What If I Can’t Find An Author?
Are There Tools To Help Me With Citations?
Write & Cite
Citation Management Programs
Glossary of Library Terms
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In this section, you will learn to:
Find a book in
OneSearch
Find and choose a
database
Find an
article in a database
Understand what a
scholarly/peer-reviewed article
is
Request a
book or full-text article
if it's not available in Adelphi University Libraries
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