We need information all day, every day. Maybe you’ve wanted to go to a restaurant with friends. First, you ask the question, “Where is a good restaurant around here?” You may have turned to Siri or Yelp or Google to discover places with good rankings. Once you’d done a few searches, you evaluated your results. Maybe you also refined your question, “Where’s a good Thai restaurant within walking distance?”
Research is a process, not a product.
As in the scenario above, good research involves several steps. You may go back and forth between these steps several times, refining as you go.
ENGL110 Tutorial Progress
ENGL110
1. Research Basics
2. Developing a Research Topic
3. Types of Sources
4. Thinking About Keywords
5. Brainstorming Keywords
6. Research: Summary
7. All About Books
8. Starting your search: DELCAT Discovery
9. Call Numbers
10. Finding Articles
11. Databases
12. Selecting a Database
13. Searching: Connectors
14. Searching: Fields
15. Searching: Truncation & Phrases
16. Searching: Helpful Limits
17. Searching: Not-So-Helpful Limits
18. Retrieving Your Results
19. Getting Help
20. Research Help
21. Help Accessing Materials
22. Help Accessing Materials - Forms
23. Conclusion
24. Information for Instructors