Lesson 1: Doing College Level Research

Information Literacy for Adult Learners

CPRG 105: Lesson 1 Doing College Level Research

Our Mission:

How to DoCollege Level

Research

Our Mission:

How to Do Research

AtDuquesne

What IS Information Literacy?

What your professors expect:

Checklist of College Student Skills: These are the information literacy skills that college professors expect college-bound students to have.

GENERAL

o Know what they don’t know o Know whom to ask for research help o Understand library jargon, e.g., “peer-reviewed”

RESEARCH PROCESS & QUESTIONS

o Follow research process steps, e.g., Badke model o Estimate time required for research, e.g., time for Inter Library loan o Define a research question or topic that’s not shallow or “pop”

SEARCHING FOR INFORMATION

o Find different formats of information o Understand that Web search engines rarely locate college-appropriate information o Distinguish between OPACs and online databases o Conduct effective searches using –

o Keywords, alternate search terms o Boolean operators, e.g., AND and OR o Controlled vocabulary, subject headings o Field searching, e.g., author, title

o Interpret search results, e.g., book chapters vs. articles o Find full text articles o Find books using Library of Congress (LC) classification, not Dewey o Use reference (and e-reference) books in the library o Regroup when first attempts to find resources don’t work, e.g., try a different database or try

different search terms or search strings EVALUATING INFORMATION

o Weed through search results to find relevant and accurate information o Evaluate information using standard evaluation criteria, e.g., the CARS model o Distinguish between popular and scholarly articles o Disregard inadequate or inaccurate information

Weekly Reflection - Checklist

Tools you’ll be using:

Different Emphasis:

Cycle of Information

Types of Sources

Scholarly vs. Popular

Intro to Citation

Gumberg Library Website

Topics for this Lesson

Information Cycle

Information CycleTurn on

the News

Newspapers

Magazines

Scholarly

Journals

Event Happens

Books

Types of Sources

Websites Books Articles

Scholarly

Popular

Journal articles/ Scholarly books

Written by experts

Based on research

Longer, harder to read

Magazines,Newspapers,Most websites

Written by anyone

Based on opinion/Reporting

Shorter, easier to read

Your professors will say…I want you to

use Peer Reviewed

Scholarly Journal Articles!

1.Subject matter expert writes an

article. 2. Submits it to a scholarly journal .

3. Article is reviewed by

scholars who are also subject matter

experts on this topic (i.e., peers).

4. If accepted, article is then

published in the scholarly journal.

Peer Review:

Intro to Citation“To cite,or not to cite… THAT is the

question!”

Yes, but…

Librarian

HOW to cite is usually more of a problem!

Why different citation styles?

In this course, we will use:

MLA, 7th edition APA, 6th edition

MLA/APA Style Guide:

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A Style Comparison: MLA vs. APA NOTE: Citations in a Works Cited list (MLA) or a Reference list (APA) should be double spaced and formatted with hanging indents.

Category MLA APA Overview of Style: The Modern Language Association (MLA)

provides a way for citing sources that is used in the liberal arts and most humanities courses. English uses MLA. The liberal arts and humanities place emphasis on authorship.

The American Psychological Association (APA) provides a way for citing sources that is used in psychology and most social science courses. At Duquesne, Business, Education, and Nursing also use APA style. These areas place emphasis on the date a work was created.

Current Edition: 7th edition 6th edition AUTHOR FORMAT: Single author Badke, William. Badke, W. Two authors Smith, John A., and Susan B. Jones. Smith, J. A., & Jones, S. B. Three authors Smith, John A., Susan B. Jones, and

Thomas C. Wesson. Smith, J. A., Jones, S. B., & Wesson, T. C.

Four to seven authors Smith, John A., et al. Smith, J. A., Jones, S. B., Wesson, T. C., & Clark, W. D. More than seven authors Smith, John A., et al.

NOTE: Use first author followed by et al. for four or more authors.

Smith, J. A., Jones, S. B., Wesson, T. C., Clark, W. D., Duncan, R. E., Ewell, S. F., . . . Godard, T. P. NOTE: You list the first seven authors, then three spaced ellipses, and then the LAST author’s name.

Corporate/organization author American Library Association. American Library Association.

Our Style Bible

AUTHOR Information

TITLE Information

Publication DATE

PUBLISHING Information

All citation styles include:

# 1 – Intro to Citation

# 2 – In-text Citations

# 3 – How to cite a WEB SOURCE # 4 – How to cite a SCHOLARLY JOURNAL ARTICLE

# 5 – How to cite a NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE/ TRADE PUBLICATION ARTICLE # 6 – How to cite BOOK/eBOOK

# 7 – How to cite a CHAPTER/SECTION in a BOOK/eBOOK

#8 – How to format a BIBLIOGRAPHY

Citation Practice:

Bibliography

MLA Style APA Style

Library website is…

Library Website:http://www.duq.edu/library

Get familiar with our website!

Homework Assignment