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Planning Your Research

• Assignment Calculator
• Planning Worksheet
• The Research Process 

Finding Information

• Online Research Guides
• Research Tutorials 
• Recommended Websites
• Scholarly vs. Popular Articles
• How to Read a Scholarly Research Article
• Search Engines vs. Databases
• Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Sources
  

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 (UTA), Tutorial (Yale)
  • Online citation generators: KnightCite | BibMe 
  • Preparing an Annotated Bibliography | Models - MLA, APA and others
• Sample Papers with Citations (Capital Community College): MLA, APA
  
• 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: February 9 2012