Research Skills
This guide includes print and online resources to help students carry out research and write research projects.
We are developing information to help you answer the questions:
- What should I write about?
- Choosing a topic
- Developing a research question
- Where should I look?
- Determining best sources
- Searching strategies
- Evaluating sources
- How should I organize information?
- Taking notes and writing
- Organizing citations
- Copyright and plagiarism
- Citations and References
- How can I use technology tools through the whole process?
List of topics covered:
- Choosing a topic
- Developing a research question
- Determining best sources
- Searching strategies for information
- Evaluating sources
- Taking notes and writing
- Organizing source citations
- Avoiding plagiarism (when to cite?)
- Following guidelines on use of copyright/ intellectual property
- In-text citations
- References
- Using technology tools
