Research+Tasks

Are you ready to upgrade your Information Literacy? Do you know:

 * ===How to begin the research process?===
 * ===What resources are best suited to the task at hand?===
 * ===Why you need to include documentation?===
 * **Where to obtain author biographies and literary criticism?**

Use these handouts:

 * 1) **Evaluating Internet Resources**
 * 2) **Guidelines to Documentation**
 * 3) **LSW Research Primer**
 * 4) **Navigating to Literary Criticism**
 * 5) **A Review of Copyright**
 * 6) **Researching Controversial Issues**
 * 7) **Find Your Country**
 * 8) **Conducting Advanced Searches in Gale**

1. How can you tell if a web site is useful for your project? You should be considering **Authority**, **Content**, and **Value**. Investigate this handout and sharpen your evaluation skills.

2. Your teacher has asked for internal documentation in your research paper; i.e., parenthetical references. What are these? How do they relate to your Works Cited? Download this handout (using MLA format) and you'll be on your way to a great project!

3. Does the thought of a research paper make you queasy? Download the **LSW Research Primer** and sharpen your skills before you start

4. Are you researching an author? Do you need access to good sources of //**literary criticism**//, //**plot summaries**// and //**more**//? Download the **Navigating to Literary Criticism** handout to find out what resources will work for you!

5. Watch this entertaining video, created by Professor Eric Faden of Bucknell University to review copyright principles. [|A Fair(y) Use Tale]

6. Researching **Controversial Issues** for Oral Comm., Sociology, Psychology, GoPo? Download this handout to speed up your search by utilizing the best database for your task.

7. Looking for information about a country? Get this handout for quick access to some great databases on our website!

8. What is the best way to conduct advanced subjects in Gale? Use this handout to power search, discover full text documents, and utilize Academic OneFile.