Objectives for today .....................sgomez37@pima.edu
- Cover a few definitions:
-What is research?
"Everything you're doing now is part of the research process: topic selection, searching the Internet, searching the library databases, writing the paper, and citing your work."
-What is a database?
"A searchable collection of published information that's organized for quick retrieval."
-What does it mean to cite your work?
"Back up what you say (in this case, what you write)
-What are sources?
"Research sources" are simply the places where you get information to learn about a topic, like books, articles, websites, or even interviews.
- Focus on the basics of using MegaSearch
-basic keyword search
-narrowing down your search by type of source and year
-emailing yourself an article
-finding the citation
- Using the citation guide (no need to memorize how to format)
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