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For instructors: assignments for classroom use

Your liaison librarian can help you with finding the best ways to incorporate these into a course.

Planning your research

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Moving Through the Research Process - PDF or Google Doc
A detailed planning guide that takes students through all the steps of a research project.

Generate Topics for Your Research Paper with ChatGPT - Google Doc
ChatGPT can be a useful tool when it comes to deciding what your topic should be for a research paper. Learn how in this guide.

Search strategies & tips

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Plan Your Search Strategy - PDF or Google Doc
Guides students through the process of using keywords in a search strategy.

Rethinking Your Search - PDF or Google Doc
Guides student through a process that helps refine and change a search that isn't working the first time.

Following a Citation Trail - PDF or Google Doc
Guides students through the process of using relevant citations to find more articles.

Understanding sources

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Practice Your Fact-Checking - PDF or Google Doc
Guides students through steps to evaluate the credibility of an online source.

Be a Fact-Checker - PDF or Google Doc
Guides students through evaluating a popular (non-scholarly) source for possible use in a research paper.

Analyzing & Integrating Scholarly Articles - PDF or Google Doc
Guides students through six steps to analyzing a scholarly article.

Citing & avoiding plagiarism

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Citing Your Sources in APA Format - PDF or Google Doc
With a citation of their choice, students learn to quote from it, paraphrase it, and add it to a reference list in APA format.

Citing Your Sources in MLA Format - PDF or Google Doc
With a citation of their choice, students learn to quote from it, paraphrase it, and add it to a works cited page in MLA format.

Identifying the Elements of a Citation - online form
This online form asks students to identify correct elements to cite from videos, online music, social media, and more.