SURF Students Understanding Research Fundamentals

SURF Site Index

Part 1: Organizing and Brainstorming

  1. Time Management
  2. Dissecting your Assignment
  3. Picking your Topic
  4. What's your Research Question?
  5. Picking your Keyword
  6. Building your Search Statement
  7. More Search Statements
  8. Librarians: Your Research Experts
  9. Quizlet
  10. Evaluation
  11. Worksheet

Part 2: Sources and Searching

  1. Where is the Information?
  2. Who Cares?
  3. The Information Safari
  4. Surf's Up: Information Sources
  5. Game
  6. Where do I Start?
  7. What is a Database?
  8. Dissecting a Database?
  9. Popular vs. Scholarly
  10. Finding Articles/Troubleshooting
  11. What did you Find?
  12. Find the Full Text with SFX
  13. Beyond the Database
  14. Finding Books
  15. What if We Don't Have it?
  16. Finding Web Sites
  17. Quizlet
  18. Evaluation
  19. Worksheet

Part 3: Thinking and Evaluating

  1. Starting to Evaluate
  2. Evaluating While Reading
  3. Evaluating Journal Articles
  4. Evaluating Web Sites
  5. Evaluating Site Content
  6. Evaluating While Reading
  7. Translating the Author
  8. Lost in Translation?
  9. Do you see the Bias?
  10. Done with your Research?
  11. Quizlet
  12. Evaluation
  13. Worksheet

Part 4: Writing and Citing

  1. Writing Fundamentals
  2. What is Plagiarism?
  3. How do I Avoid Plagiarism?
  4. Style Manuals
  5. Quoting
  6. Summarizing and Paraphrasing
  7. Works Cited Page
  8. Check our Answer
  9. Bibliographic Tools
  10. Quizlet
  11. Evaluation
  12. Worksheet
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