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Ayiana Crabtree

Created on July 25, 2023

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How to Start Your Research

Contextualizing, Synthesizing, Communicating

Finding and Evaluating

Accessing

Planning

Planning your research timeline
Understanding your assignment
brainstorming ideas
Narrowing down big ideas
Picking a topic is research
Databases for background information

Brainstorming search terms
Subject-specific databases
Citation mining
Scanning an article
Evaluating sources
Finding diverse sources

Scholarly conversations
Synthesizing information into your paper
Plagiarism and citations
Integrating citations
Writing help
Technology alternatives for presentations

Reading call numbers
Interlibrary loan
Course reserves
Circulation policies
Putting a book on hold
Self-checkout
Off-campus access
Paid vs open materials
Open-source tools