Research Your Way to an A ...
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The document discusses scholarly research and provides guidance on how to conduct research for a research paper. It defines scholarly research as a process that requires time and decision making to search for and find information to use for specific purposes. It also defines a research paper as requiring a thoughtful, critical, and abstract level of inquiry. The document then provides tips on how to start the research process, including understanding your topic and assignment, brainstorming, and accessing information resources to find facts that can help write about the topic. It recommends starting the search using library catalogs, databases, and evaluating different sources of information.
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Research Your Way to an A ...
- 1. Research your way to an A! ... well … to the best grade you can earn while learning! Marlene Forney [email_address] 480-461-7631
- 2. What is Scholarly Research? Not the Google 2 step! Something you can use Google to start but not to finish. Not something you are born knowing!
- 3. What is Scholarly Research? Process that requires time and decision-making Searching for information to use for specific purposes Something anyone can learn!
- 4. What is a Research Paper? Online Writing Lab (OWL) Purdue University “ A research paper is a piece of academic writing that requires a more abstract, critical, and thoughtful level of inquiry than you might be used to” Something your Instructor assigns!
- 5. What is Information? Facts about a certain topic which can be shared or observed Anything that tells you something Facts, opinions, and data that can be shared or communicated
- 6. Definitions of Information American Library Association “…all ideas, facts, and imaginative works of the mind that have been communicated, recorded published and /or distributed formally or informally in any format.” Heartsill Young, ed., The ALA Glossary of Library and Information Science (Chicago: American Library Association, 1983), 117 WordNet “…knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction…”
- 7. Factual or Analytical Objective or Subjective Primary or Secondary (even Tertiary) Cornell Olin Kroch Uris Libraries “ How Literature is Structured ” Central Queensland University “ Primary, Secondary and Tertiary levels of Information ” Information Characteristics
- 8. Research- The Beginning Understand your topic and assignment Reflect on what types of information you will need Think about where you might find this information
- 9. Brainstorm about your topic – alone, with a friend Is the topic too broad? Is the topic too narrow? What issues are related to it? What do you want to know about one or more of these issues? Research- Next …
- 10. Access some information resources to answer questions that will help you write about your topic Research- … Preparing to Search
- 11. Information access points Catalogs - to Collections Databases - to Periodicals Free web - to Various sources Research- … Where to Search
- 12. Catalogs – MCC Library Basic Search Use Keywords- General, Subject Displays lists of records Browse Search Specific searches – Subjects, Titles Displays lists of matching terms Advanced Search Combine Keywords- Title & Subject Multiple limits possible- AV, MCC, 1999 Research- Starting to Search
- 13. Catalogs Quick Book Search for the savvy searcher (opens new window from MCC Library homepage) Links to Valley area libraries and major Arizona academic libraries Research- Starting to Search
- 14. Electronic Resources (via paid library subscriptions) General Newspapers Ebooks Subject Specific Research- Starting to Search
- 15. Electronic Resources - General Academic Search Premier Great starting point Lots of scholarly pubs Loads of full-text Visual search tool!! Research- Starting to Search
- 16. Electronic Resources – General InfoTrac GeneralFile Nice place to start Offers ‘best’ subject search Nifty results display options Useful citation examples Research- Starting to Search
- 17. Electronic Resources – General Academic OneFile CQ Researcher MasterFile Premier Research- Starting to Search
- 18. Electronic Resources - Newspapers Arizona Republic Ethnic NewsWatch National News Research- Starting to Search
- 19. Electronic Resources - Newspapers National News Full text (FT) for both top US newspapers The New York Times and Wall Street Journal Also FT for Christian Science Monitor , LA Times , and Washington Post Research- Starting to Search
- 20. Electronic - Ebooks Gale Virtual Reference Desk ebrary Research- Starting to Search
- 21. Electronic Resources - Specialties E ebrary Research- Starting to Search
- 22. Information access points Catalogs - to Collections Databases - to Periodicals Free web - to Various sources http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/library/boolean.html Research- Next …