Begin Research: Days to Weeks After
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Begin Research
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- How Much Do You Already Know?
- Read Your Assignment Carefully
- Understand Your Assignment
- Pick a Good Topic
- Too Broad, Too Narrow, or Just Right?
- Identify Potential Ideas
- Customize Your Topic
- Turn Your Topic into a Question
- What’s Your Angle?
- Find Your Search Terms
- Putting it All Together
- Dive Into a Sea of Resources!
- What Do You Know?
- Matching Resources to Your Information Need
- Quiz: What Have You Learned?
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Knowledge Cycle
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- How Much Do You Already Know?
- A Timeline of Information
- Minutes to Hours After the Event
- Days to Weeks After
- Months to Years After
- …And More Years
- A Cycle of Revolving Research
- Quick Check
- Primary, Secondary & Tertiary Sources
- Secondary Sources
- Tertiary Sources
- Check Your Understanding
- Timeline for Producing Scholarly Information
- Research and Information for Different Disciplines
- Quiz: What Have You Learned?
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Library Basics
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- Do you know the answer?
- What Do Librarians and Library Staff Do?
- What is the Most Important Job of the HCC Librarians?
- How Can I Get Help From a Librarian?
- Where are the HCC libraries?
- When are the HCC Libraries Open?
- Guidelines for Using HCC Library Materials
- Do I Need A Library Card in Order to Use Library Resources?
- What Can I Do With My HCC Student ID Card?
- How Do I Login and Use My Library Account?
- Requesting Books at the HCC Libraries
- Find, Checkout, and Renew Your HCC Library Books
- Why Do I Need a Call Number?
- How Many Books Can I Check Out?
- Do the HCC Libraries Have eBooks?
- Find Course Reserves
- How Can I Find HCC Library Resources and Services?
- Where Do I Find the HCC Library Homepage?
- How Do I Use the Library Homepage?
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Discovery Tools
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- Where Can I Find Them?
- Start With the HCC Library Homepage
- What is ELS?
- What Can I Find With ELS?
- How Do I Search ELS?
- Can I Save My ELS Search Results?
- The HCC Library Catalog
- How Much Do You Already Know?
- What Can I Find in the Library Catalog?
- What Won't I Find in a Library Catalog?
- Fact Check
- How to Search the HCC Library Catalog
- Understand Your Catalog Search Results
- How Do I Find More Books on the Same Topic?
- Subject Search, Step #1
- Subject Search, Step #2
- How Do I Find Articles?
- How Much Do You Already Know?
- Database Basics
- How Do I Find the HCC Library Databases?
- How Do I Choose a Database?
- Fact Check
- How Do I Search in a Database?
- HCC Library Databases A to Z
- ELS, Catalog, or Database Lists?
- What are Library & Research Guides?
- What Kinds of Resources?
- Find and Use Library & Research Guides For Your Research
- What's the Buzz Around Open Access Resources?
- How Do I Find the Best Open Access Resources?
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Expert Searches
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- Search By Subject Headings!
- Differences Between Subject and Keyword Searches
- Combining Subject and Keyword Searches
- Self-Check
- Find it by Field Searching!
- Field Searching vs. Keyword Searching
- Self-Check
- Use a Boolean!
- Boolean Logic
- Combining Boolean Operators
- Self-Check
- Try Truncation
- Using Truncation
- Using Internal Truncation
- Avoid Truncation Overload!
- Know Your Limits
- Why Sort?
- Limiting in Action!
- Refining Database Searches
- Quiz: What Have You Learned?
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Make Citations
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- How Much Do You Already Know?
- Why Is It Important That I Cite My Sources Accurately?
- What Is the Basic Bibliographic Information Required for a Book Citation?
- Find The Bibliographic Information You Need to Cite A Book
- What Bibliographic Information is Required for a Book Chapter Citation?
- What Is the Basic Bibliographic Information Required for a Journal Article Citation?
- Find The Bibliographic Information You Need To Cite An Article
- My Professor Says I Have To Use MLA Format For My Works Cited List.
- What If I'm Using An Electronic Copy Of A Book Or An Article?
- What Do These Citations Look Like?
- What If I Can’t Find An Author?
- But most of my sources are blogs, YouTube videos, and public websites.
- Can Media Ever Be Used For Scholarly Research?
- Locate The Bibliographic Information
- Locate The Bibliographic Information
- Practice With Citations
- What’s Missing?
- Are There Tools To Help Me With Citations?
- Quiz: Test Yourself
Days to Weeks After
The news media continues to report new
information, which often includes expert opinions.
Analysis of the cause of event begins. News magazines publish summaries and analysis. Social networking sites, such as chat rooms and blogs, feature discussions of facts and opinions. All of these sources contain some degree of bias..- Last Updated: May 22, 2019 2:13 PM
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