1. Develop Your
Why is this
important? Research Cred
….ential ….ibility
At Paly we want to prepare you for
college and the working world.

2. College professors and working professionals believe…
“When young adults express themselves in term papers, speeches, and
presentations they need to use original thinking not just rephrased facts from
encyclopedias and common websites…”
 Learn best practices for finding, evaluating and using academic
resources
 Practice “deep reading”, paraphrasing and summarizing
“Students need to revise not only their writing but also their resource
collection during the research process in order to craft a really great
project…. “
 Understand the research process
 Develop note taking and outlining skills
 Develop time management skills
 Organize digital and print resources
 Practice writing and revision
“There has been a 50% increase in plagiarism in recent years…”
 Understand the many forms of plagiarism
 Understand how to cite resources
 Understand traditional and new forms of copyright

3. Results of the Academic Research Survey
 Everyone had good understanding of the research process and
reported challenges that are hard for everyone.
 Deciding which info is important
 Finding credible useful sources of information
 Hard to get started and organized
 Staying focused—helps to work with a friend
 Putting it all together in my own words
 Making the information interesting
 Organization
 Works cited
 Requires time
 Everyone could define plagiarism and copyright and give
an example of a primary and secondary source
 You had good strategies for finding keywords to start
online searches
 read title and headings in a chapter
 read encyclopedia to get a feel for the subject
 Consult textbook, class notes, teacher

4. Earn Your Research Cred
 Improve search strategies by learning how to find and use a
wide variety of academic resources found on the “Invisible
Web”
 Databases
 E-Books
 Practice Boolean Search
 Explore Wikipedia—the perfect example of tertiary source
 Evaluate Websites
Research Cred tasks will be posted on LibGuides and will be
designed to be completed at home or in the library or computer
lab.