Monday, September 23, 2013

Research Tips and Tutorials

 Research Tips and Tutorials

Starting your research:

When you start writing a research you have to choose an easy topic that you are interested in. Also, you need to get some information by using the resources. In addition, try to find a topic fits to your assignment.

Finding the resources:
      
There are many types of finding resources such as; using databases, electronically device, and a scholarly article which means "a scholarly article is published in an academic journal rather than in a popular magazine (e.g., Time, Newsweek Professors may refer to this kind of writing by various words: scholarly, academice, refereed, research based or scientific". (Stcloudstate.edu/library).                                                                        
Writing down your citation information:

After searching for some information to support your topic you have to write your citation information in special way for example. ""article title." Author. Journal title. Date. Volume, number (issue), pages."  (Stcloudstate.edu/library).

:Evaluating the information

Everyone can take any information from any website or book that he or she likes, but in order to get a good article you have to look at some things such as; authorship, publishing body, currency, perspective, coverage, verifiability.

Using the information that you find:

There are many styles to you use the information that you have found such as; APA, MLA, ASA, ACS, Chicago, Turabian and Sciences, citing government publications, Refworks" (make bibliography in seconds)" and other bibliographic tools. Also, each one is created to use for one type of information such as, Psychological, hand book for writers of research paper, documents and governments. (Stcloudstate.edu/library).      



Work Cited

lrts.stcloudstate.edu/library/research/askalibrarian.asp





 

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