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What is an Annotated Bibliography? Chat with a Librarian .
What is a Literature Review? Guide to the Library Terms .
How to do an Outline .  
Guides on Research Strategies Citing your Sources .
Research Methodology materials How to Evaluate a Web Resource .

Definition of a primary source or
Using primary sources on the web or
Examples of primary sources  or
Examples of secondary or tertiary sources

Help with a citation . How to use RefWorks to manage your citations.

How do I research from Home? Powerpoint Presentation for PPA 500
Distance Education Class.
Contact the PPA Librarian for help . Powerpoint Presentation for PPA 500

 

What is an Annotated Bibliography?

CSU Long Beach has a guide with instruction for getting started and formatting at U100 Annotated Bibliography .

Cornell University Library has a guide on  How to Prepare an Annotated Bibliography .

University of Toronto has a good description of what an annotated bibliography is in there Writing an Annotated Bibliography .

Purdue University's OWL writing lab has Annotated Bibliographies that includes a bit more on writing the annotation.

University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center has a guide called Academic Writing: Annotated Bibliography .

University of Newfoundland Library has a guide How to write annotated bibliographies, includes examples of a descriptive and critical annotation.

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill has Annotated Bibliographies guide on why to do an annotated bibliography during research.

What is a Literature Review?

The best description is by the University of Toronto's writing lab, The Literature Review: A few tips on Conducting It .

University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center also has a guide called Academic Writing: Reviews of Literature .

Literature Review by University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill has is an extensive guide.

Washington & Lee University provides what, why and how to Prepare a Literature Review .

An example of Literature Reviews is provided by Sportscience Journal .

How to do an Paper Outline?

Purdue OWL writing labs has guides for creating any type of paper like an argumentative paper or how to just develope an outline .

University of Hawaii has a basic guide to what is in an outline for a paper .

Drexel has Writing the Paper: The Outline providing step-by-step instructions.

How to Evaluate a Web Resource?

How to evaluate a Web page by Colorado State University.

Thinking critically about Web resources by UCLA.

Finding information on the Internet: a tutorial by UC Berkeley.

Guides on Research Strategies.

Research 101 by University of Washington is a tutorial leading you through the research process.

Research Help  by UCLA has guides to selecting the right sources, using information effectively, and web searching.  

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