Research Skills Tutorial
- Turning A Topic Into A Research Question
- Getting Background Information About Your Topic
- Portfolio Activity 1
- Types of Information Sources
- Scholarly, Popular and Trade Information Sources
- Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Information Sources
- Current and Retrospective Information Sources
- Information Sources for Different Audiences and Purposes
- Portfolio Activity 2
- Library Databases vs. the Web
- Creating a Concept Chart
- Boolean Operators
- Refining Results by Date, Peer Review and Document Type
- Advanced Searching
- Advanced Searching with Descriptors
- Descriptor Chaining
- Citation Chaining (or Reference Mining)
- Searching Outside the SUNY Empire Library
- Searching Google
- Portfolio Activity 3
- Understanding Search Results
- Saving Search Results
- Portfolio Activity 4
- Credible Sources
- What Does the Information Source Tell You About Itself?
- Reliability
- Some More About Validity
- Portfolio Activity 5
- What Is Citing?
- What Is a Citation?
- Citation Styles
- Citing Tools and Tips
- Practice Activity 6
- Practice Activity 7 - Final Project
Liaison Librarian
Portfolio Activity for Managing Search Results
In this fourth portfolio assignment, you will be searching in library databases and Google for information sources about your topic. You will use the Boolean searches that you constructed in the Topic 3 portfolio assignment, but you will also fine-tune them by:
- limiting by date
- limiting by document type
- limiting by all-scholarly
In addition, you will use the results you get from your initial searches to modify and improve your subsequent searches, using techniques like:
- citation chaining
- searching using controlled vocabulary
For this assignment, copy this search log template , complete it, and submit it.
Take this opportunity to find the information sources that you will later evaluate and use to create your annotated bibliography. Copy and use this template.
Take down the information you will need to go back to each information source. At minimum, its full title and the permalink. (It is smart to also download the article too.)
Here you will find instructions for locating permalinks to database articles.
Here are the kinds of information sources you need to find:
- a reference source
- web page/site
- electronic/online article
- print article
- a multimedia item
- five other information sources
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Portfolio: Tasks for Research Skills and Academic Methods
Teacher's motivation .
The realization that the best way for students to become familiar with the work processes related to research and academic writing was through completing research and compostitional tasks related to ongoing research in other courses.
Description of the activity
The students are given the portfolio guide and all of the portfolio tasks templates at the beginning of the semester and then required to hand them in at the due dates. Any tasks that isn’t completely satisfactorily must be re-done. At the end of the semester the students hand in all of the tasks.
Outcome of the activity
Students are much better prepared to do university-level research. They feel more confident about starting research, have a sense of where to find information and have a better overview of the research process. They are also better equipped to write research papers.
Examples of practice
Basic information.
- Faculty: Arts
- Degree Programme: English
- Course: Research Skills and Academic Methods
- Study level: BA, 1st semester
- Course size: Individual or small groups
- Teaching method: Small class teaching
- Extent: Whole course
- Primary type of activity: Acquisition
- How the case was conducted: Campus teaching
Learning objectives
In the assessment of exam performance, emphasis is placed on the extent to which the student:
- Demonstrates skills in effective information searches based on well-defined information requirements
- Applies academic assessment criteria in the selection of relevant information and materials
- Distinguishes between academic and popular material and between primary and secondary sources
- Demonstrates knowledge of computer-based information systems
- Demonstrates an ability to formulate academic issues and to plan and organise academic assignments correctly
- Demonstrates an ability to communicate about complex issues in a scholarly manner.
Links and materials
Task 1 - Assesment (word)
Task 2 - Working thesis (word)
Task 3 - Revised thesis (word)
Task 4 - Campus Library Resources (word)
Task 4 - Missed Attendance Version (word)
Task 4 - Answer Key (word)
Task 5 - LE1 Research Paper (word)
Task 6 - Citing Academic Sources (word)
Task 7 - Refworks intro (word)
Task 7 - Missed Attendance Version (word)
Task 8 - LE1 Research Paper (word)
Task 9 - Search Strategy for Media and Culture Studies (word)
Task 10 - Research Terms and Processes (word)
Ulrichsweb Guide (pdf)
Jody Pennington
IMAGES
VIDEO
COMMENTS
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