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Planning Your Research

• Assignment Calculator
• Getting Started - What Sources Should You Use?
• Planning Worksheet
• The Research Process (How To Do Research)

Finding Information

• Subject Research Guides [Coming soon!]
• Class Guides & Tip Sheets
• Research Tutorials 
• Recommended Websites
• Scholarly vs. Popular Articles
• How to Read Scholarly Articles
• Search Engines vs. Databases

Evaluating Information

• Evaluating Print Resources 
• Evaluating Websites
  • Evaluating and Citing Web Pages
  • Evaluating Websites Tutorial
  • Internet Detective Online Tutorial (Intute - Virtual Training Site)

The Writing Process

• Model Papers
• Writing Guides

Citing Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism

• Citing Sources
  • APA, MLA, AMA, and Other Citation Style Guides
  • In-Text Citations: MLA, APA
  • Footnotes and Endnotes: MLA, APA
  • Citing Images (example)
  • Online citation generators: KnightCite | BibMe 
  • Preparing an Annotated Bibliography | Models
• Avoiding Plagiarism
  • How to Recognize Plagiarism (Indiana University Bloomington)
  • Giving Credit - Presentations, Websites, etc. (Univ. of Maine at Farmington)
  • Tutorial on Acknowledging Sources (Univ. of Texas at Arlington Libraries)
  • "You Quote It, You Note It!" - Plagiarism Tutorial (Vaughan Memorial Library)

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Page last updated: October 27 2009