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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Leslie F Stebbins |
| ISBN: | 1591580994 9781591580997 |
| OCLC Number: | 62152874 |
| Description: | xiii, 202 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Research and critical evaluation. Follow the seven steps of research, but be flexible! ; Step one : define your research question ; Step two : ask for help ; Step three : develop a research strategy and locate resources ; Step four : use effective search techniques ; Step five : read critically, synthesize, and seek meaning ; Step six : understand the scholarly communication process and cite sources ; Step seven : critically evaluate sources -- Finding books and ebooks. Books and scholarly research ; Use books as a shortcut ; Use a subject encyclopedia to start your research ; Use bibliographies and Web guides to locate key resources ; Use reference books to locate quick factual information ; Find reference books ; Use scholarly books for a broad and deep overview ; Use ebooks for research ; Do not read the entire book ; Don't use books if-- ; Use filtering devices to deal with information overload ; Critically evaluate books -- Scholarly and popular articles. Identify and use scholarly journal articles ; Use magazine and newspaper articles when appropriate ; Choose databases to search for articles ; Develop effective search strategies ; Locate articles ; Use open access journals, preprint servers, and institutional repositories/university Web sites ; Evaluate articles ; Understand the role of informal information sources : personal Web pages, blogs, and wikis -- Primary sources : online tools and digitized collections. What are primary sources? ; Understand the types of primary sources ; Plan your research strategy ; Find digitized primary source collections on the Web ; Find primary sources using the online library catalog ; Visit your special collections department ; Find historical newspaper and magazine articles ; Use special microform collections of primary sources ; Critically evaluate primary sources -- Biographical research. Develop a strategy ; Find critical essays and brief factual information ; Find published autobiographies and biographies ; Find biographical writings by lesser-known individuals ; Critically evaluate autobiographies and biographies ; Find diaries ; Critically evaluate diaries ; Find oral histories ; Critically evaluate oral histories ; Validate biographical writings using secondary sources ; Use biographical Web sites with caution ; Critically evaluate biographical Web sites -- Legal research. Find primary and secondary legal resources ; Find case law ; Use secondary sources to find related cases and analysis on points of law ; Understand citations to court cases ; Use a legal dictionary to decipher legal terms ; Find Supreme Court cases ; Find lower federal court cases ; Find state court cases ; Determine whether a case is still "good law" ; Critically evaluate legal resources -- United States government documents and statistics. Find federal agency documents ; Find presidential information sources ; Find legislative information ; Find government documents from other countries and resources from intergovernmental organizations ; Critically evaluate government documents ; Find statistics ; Critically evaluate statistics -- Citing sources, avoiding plagiarism, and organizing references. Develop a system for taking notes ; Steer clear of all types of plagiarism ; Choose a style manual ; Choose a documentation style ; Use the following examples form the Chicago manual of style to format your references ; Use bibliographic software to cite your sources ; Bring evaluation into the process -- Appendix : specialized journal article databases : indexes and full text -- Glossary. |
| Responsibility: | Leslie F. Stebbins. |
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