Workshop Title | Student Learning Outcomes |
What's in the Library? Finding Books, videos & more |
1. Students will be able to search the catalog to find books in Ingram Library 2. Students will be able to describe and locate library services |
GALILEO: Find articles and evaluate sources |
1. Students will learn how to apply filters to limit searches to find different kinds of resources in GALILEO. 2. Students will apply evaluation criteria to sources found in GALILEO |
How to start a research project |
1. Students will develop topics and identify resources for a research project. 2. Students will create an action plan for a significant research project. |
How to do a literature review |
1. Students will explain the process of writing a literature review. 2. Students will create a plan for using library resources to do a literature review. |
How to read a scholarly article |
1. Students will identify parts of a scholarly article. 2. Students will describe how scholarly articles are used in research and writing projects. |
Decoding a bibliography |
1. Students will read citations to determine the type of source cited. 2. Students will identify where to look to find the full-text of each type of source. |
Keeping track of your sources: how to organize your research |
1. Students will explore ways of organizing sources for a research project. 2. Students will describe how citation management software could be used in their research projects. |
How to use an academic book |
1. Students will identify elements of academic books. 2. Students will explain how the front matter in a book can reveal the author's agenda and bias. |
Using Mendeley to organize your research (ONLINE only; 90 minutes |
1. Students will create a library of sources in Mendeley. 2. Students will generate citations in Word using Mendeley's plug-in. |
When and how to just "Google it" |
1. Students will be able to use internet search engines to find background information and links to scholarly sources. 2. Students will be able to evaluate when a website/web-resource is appropriate for academic research. |
Cited Reference Searching with Web of Science |
1. Students will describe the value of cited reference searching for their research projects. 2. Students will use Web of Science to find sources that cite a given source. |
Research Review |
1. Students will identify gaps in the research they have done on a specific topic. 2. Students will create a plan for completing their research project. |
Citation mining: using one article to find many more |
1. Students will discover relevant resources using references or citations . 2. Students will evaluate the research impact of a work. |
Examining the politics of Google |
1. Students will identify ways Google search results can be problematic. 2. Students will describe how much data Google collects and sells about its users. |
Primary source research in Special Collections |
1. Students will explain what primary sources are in different disciplines. 2. Students will describe how to incorporate primary sources into their research processes and products. |