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Library Research Process
This guide provides introductory information and tips on the research process.
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Library Research Process
Research: An Overview
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Finding a Topic: The Big Idea
Narrowing a Topic
Doing Presearch
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Search Techniques
Words and Synonyms
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Types of Resources and Finding Them
Scholarly vs. Popular
What's in a Scholarly Article?
Finding Books
Finding Articles
Film & Video
Subject Databases and Guides
Evaluating Sources
Spotting Fake News
The Four Moves
Quick Journal Article Evaluation
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Citing Sources
Zotero: Tracking Sources
Information In Real Life Tutorial
Scholarship as a Conversation and Article Deep Dive
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The Four Moves
The Four Moves Of Web Literacy Downloadable Handout
Adapted from Mike Caulfiled: https://webliteracy.pressbooks.com/
Media Bias / Fact Check
For step 3: Read Laterally: this website gives each media outlet scores for political bias and factual reliability. Rread their criteria for their scores.
Interactive Media Bias Chart 5.0
Valuable graphical representation of news outlets.
A Professional Version of the 4 Moves Graphic
SHIFT: another way to configure the 4 Moves
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