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Choosing Using Sources: A Guide to Academic Research

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Choosing Using Sources: A Guide to Academic Research

Engaging graphics, compelling examples, and easy-to-understand explanations make Choosing and Using Sources: A Guide to Academic Research, your most valuable, open access resource for completing research-based writing assignments and projects. With this free-of-cost guide, students are better equipped to tackle the challenges of developing research questions, evaluating and choosing the right sources, searching for information, avoiding plagiarism, and much more.

Research and Information LiteracyHumanities
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Contents· 79 sections
  1. 01: The Research Process and Research Questions
  2. 1.01: Background Reading
  3. 1.02: Narrowing a Topic
  4. 1.03: The Purpose of Research Questions
  5. 1.04: Influence of a Research Question
  6. 1.05: Regular vs. Research Questions
  7. 1.06: Developing Your Research Question
  8. 02: Types of Sources
  9. 2.01: Categorizing Sources
  10. 2.02: Quantitative or Qualitative
  11. 2.03: Fact or Opinion
  12. 2.04: Primary Secondary and Tertiary Sources
  13. 2.05: Popular Professional and Scholarly
  14. 2.06: Publication Formats and the Information Lifecycle
  15. 2.07: Scholarly Articles as Sources
  16. 2.08: News as a Source
  17. 2.09: Data as Sources
  18. 2.10: People as Sources
  19. 03: Sources and Information Needs
  20. 3.01: Sources and Information Needs
  21. 3.02: Thinking Critically About Sources
  22. 3.03: Sources to Meet Needs
  23. 3.04: Planning Your Sources
  24. 3.05: Roles of Research Sources
  25. 3.06: BEAM- A Solution That Might Shine
  26. 04: Precision Searching
  27. 4.01: Why Precision Searching
  28. 4.02: Main Concepts
  29. 4.03: Related and Alternative Terms
  30. 4.04: Search Statements
  31. 05: Search Tools
  32. 5.01: Discovery Search Systems
  33. 5.02: Specialized Databases
  34. 5.03: Web Search Engines
  35. 5.04: Advanced Search in Google
  36. 5.05: Google Scholar
  37. 5.06: Tips for Common Search Tools
  38. 06: Evaluating Sources
  39. 6.01: Evaluating for Relevancy
  40. 6.02: Evaluating for Credibility
  41. 6.03: A Sources Neighborhood
  42. 6.04: Author and Publisher
  43. 6.05: Degree of Bias
  44. 6.06: Recognition from Others
  45. 6.07: Thoroughness
  46. 6.08: Combining the Factors
  47. 07: Ethical Use of Sources
  48. 7.01: Ethical Use and Citing Sources
  49. 7.02: Why Cite Sources
  50. 7.03: Challenges in Citing Sources
  51. 08: How to Cite Sources
  52. 8.01: Citation and Citation Styles
  53. 8.02: Steps for Citing
  54. 8.03: Citation Software
  55. 8.04: When to Cite
  56. 09: Making an Argument
  57. 9.01: The Purpose of Academic Argument
  58. 9.02: Components of an Argument
  59. 9.03: Order of the Components
  60. 9.04: Where You Get the Components
  61. 9.05: Your Argument Plan
  62. 10: Writing Tips
  63. 10.01: When to Quote Paraphrase or Summarize
  64. 10.02: Helping Others Follow
  65. 10.03: Synthesis of Your Own Ideas
  66. 11: Copyright Basics
  67. 11.01: What Is Copyright
  68. 11.02: What Copyright Covers
  69. 11.03: Rights Granted by Copyright
  70. 11.04: Respecting Copyright
  71. 11.05: Exceptions to Copyright
  72. 11.06: Creative Commons An Alternative
  73. 11.07: Public Domain and Term of Copyright
  74. 11.08: Thinking About Roles of Sources
  75. 12: Fair Use
  76. 12.01: What Is Fair Use
  77. 12.02: The Four Factors
  78. 12.03: Evaluating Your Case for Fair Use
  79. 12.04: Common Examples of Fair Use