Help With Your Research

Have an assignment? Start with a research guide. 

Planning Your Research

• Assignment Calculator
• Planning Worksheet
• The Research Process
• Choosing a Topic 

Finding Information

• Research Guides
• Finding Information
• Internet vs. Databases
• Scholarly vs. Popular Articles
• How to Read a Scholarly Research Article

Evaluating Information

• Evaluating Print
• Evaluating Videos
• Evaluating Websites
  • T-R-A-P
  • Evaluating Information

The Writing Process

• Developing an Outline
• General Writing Sites:
  • Online Resources for Writers (Amherst College)
  • OWL: The Online Writing Lab
  • Paradigm: Online Writing Assistant
  • Writing Center (U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Citing Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism

• Using Information Ethically 
• In-Text Citations and Bibliographies (aka “Works Cited”): APA, MLA, and Other Citation Style Guides
• Online citation generator: KnightCite  *Verify your citations with the guide(s) found above.*
• Footnotes and Endnotes: MLA, APA
• Citing Images: Example (UTA), Tutorial (Yale)
• Preparing an Annotated Bibliography | Annotated Bibliography Models
• Avoiding Plagiarism
  • How to Recognize Plagiarism (Indiana University Bloomington)
  • Tutorial on Acknowledging Sources (Univ. of Texas at Arlington Libraries)
  • What is Common Knowledge? (MIT)
  • “You Quote It, You Note It!” – Plagiarism Tutorial (Vaughan Memorial Library)

Page last updated: 2014-01-09