Archive for the ‘Tutorials’ Category
Monday, February 18th, 2008
Choose one of the videos below to learn about the difference between scholarly and popular periodicals, as well as the peer review process.
Identify Your Sources (10 minutes)
Created by librarians at Millard Sheets Library at the Otis College of Art & Design.
Magazines vs. Journals (6 minutes)
For an explanation of the peer ...
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
Read through these scenarios and decide which ones you think are plagiarism.
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
Take a quiz to test what you know about plagiarism.
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
Use this Synonym Generator to help you learn how to brainstorm broader and narrower words related to the ideas in your research question.
Generating keywords before your search is a strategy to help you find more relevant articles in the databases.
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Boolean Operators - AND vs. OR
Which search will find more articles?
a. cheating AND college students
b. cheating OR college students
Test your hypothesis in Yahoo Battle!
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
Watch these scenes between students and decide what you would do to avoid plagiarism in these situations. This tutorial was created by Rutger's University Libraries.
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Thursday, March 1st, 2007
You can use an asterick to stand for multiple endings for a word. This is called wildcards or truncation. For example, if you search for child* you will find articles with the words child, children, childhood... Lean more about how to use wildcards with this tutorial.
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