This document provides an overview of the college-level research process. It discusses key aspects of researching a topic like determining a topic and search terms, evaluating different source types and locations for information like the library catalog, databases, and Google. It also covers evaluating and citing sources. The overall message is that research is an iterative process that involves exploring a topic from different angles and avenues to find reliable and applicable information.
MASL Spring Conference 2015 - Keynote - JaegerPaige Jaeger
Although these slides show pictures of what was covered, it does not have the details that you would have gleaned if you were present for our discussion and interaction. Good Luck educators! I wish you all success! It was great spending time in MO!
Social Media For Researchers -- A personal accountcdessimoz
In this talk, I provide very pragmatic reasons for scientists—particularly early-career ones—to consider joining the social media bandwagon. I also provide a few examples of effective uses of social media.
MASL Spring Conference 2015 - Keynote - JaegerPaige Jaeger
Although these slides show pictures of what was covered, it does not have the details that you would have gleaned if you were present for our discussion and interaction. Good Luck educators! I wish you all success! It was great spending time in MO!
Social Media For Researchers -- A personal accountcdessimoz
In this talk, I provide very pragmatic reasons for scientists—particularly early-career ones—to consider joining the social media bandwagon. I also provide a few examples of effective uses of social media.
This is the Power Point presentation for a class I developed aimed at teaching high school students. Please feel free to use my presentation as long as you credit me as the creator.
CASL - 2015 - Thinking is a Superpower!Paige Jaeger
Featured Speaker slidedeck. This does not convey the full message that was explained for all these pictures, of course. However, you may glean insights from these slides. My pleasure to meet you all! Thanks for the invite!
You work for a university, an institute, a branch of government or private industry where research takes place. It's your job to explain that research to audiences not reading peer-reviewed academic journals, whether those are industry partners, potential students, taxpayers, or government officials.
Veteran communicator Kelley Teahen offers easy-to-digest tips on how to explain what sometimes seems unexplainable in "What is it you do, and why does it matter? Writing effective research profiles."
How can we filter the truth from lies and complex shades between the two? In the time of data avalanche, this is a skill that serves both our carriers as well as lives.
In this talk, we will discuss where to find information, the importance of sources, understanding bias and conflicts of interests, and finally how to communicate our conclusions with their associated confidence.
Getting to know others with a shared interest has always been an important part of one’s professional life. With social media on the rise, there are new and effective ways to engage. This session will review ways to help build your personal brand, giving you a jump on making a splash in your career of choice!
Presentation made in conjunction with Career Services at the Heller School at Brandeis University.
How can researchers use social platforms for dissemination and engagement?Anne Osterrieder
This presentation is aimed at researchers and other professionals in an academic environment who are either social media novices or have some knowledge but would like to learn more about expanding their online reach.
Writing a research paper can be scary, especially if it's your first time doing one. Once you watch this slidecast it will give you the steps from start to finish on how to do your research paper. Not only that but if you follow these steps it will give you an A+ on your paper.
This is the Power Point presentation for a class I developed aimed at teaching high school students. Please feel free to use my presentation as long as you credit me as the creator.
CASL - 2015 - Thinking is a Superpower!Paige Jaeger
Featured Speaker slidedeck. This does not convey the full message that was explained for all these pictures, of course. However, you may glean insights from these slides. My pleasure to meet you all! Thanks for the invite!
You work for a university, an institute, a branch of government or private industry where research takes place. It's your job to explain that research to audiences not reading peer-reviewed academic journals, whether those are industry partners, potential students, taxpayers, or government officials.
Veteran communicator Kelley Teahen offers easy-to-digest tips on how to explain what sometimes seems unexplainable in "What is it you do, and why does it matter? Writing effective research profiles."
How can we filter the truth from lies and complex shades between the two? In the time of data avalanche, this is a skill that serves both our carriers as well as lives.
In this talk, we will discuss where to find information, the importance of sources, understanding bias and conflicts of interests, and finally how to communicate our conclusions with their associated confidence.
Getting to know others with a shared interest has always been an important part of one’s professional life. With social media on the rise, there are new and effective ways to engage. This session will review ways to help build your personal brand, giving you a jump on making a splash in your career of choice!
Presentation made in conjunction with Career Services at the Heller School at Brandeis University.
How can researchers use social platforms for dissemination and engagement?Anne Osterrieder
This presentation is aimed at researchers and other professionals in an academic environment who are either social media novices or have some knowledge but would like to learn more about expanding their online reach.
Writing a research paper can be scary, especially if it's your first time doing one. Once you watch this slidecast it will give you the steps from start to finish on how to do your research paper. Not only that but if you follow these steps it will give you an A+ on your paper.
This is a presentation made at the "Advancing Research Communication and Scholarship" http://arcscon.tumblr.com/
Many of us nowadays invest significant amounts of time in sharing our activities and opinions with friends and family via social networking tools. However, despite the availability of many platforms for scientists to connect and share with their peers in the scientific community the majority do not make use of these tools, despite their promise and potential impact and influence on our future careers. We are being indexed and exposed on the internet via our publications, presentations and data. We also have many more ways to contribute to science, to annotate and curate data, to “publish” in new ways, and many of these activities are as part of a growing crowdsourcing network. This presentation will provide an overview of the various types of networking and collaborative sites available to scientists and ways to expose your scientific activities online. Many of these can ultimately contribute to the developing measures of you as a scientist as identified in the new world of alternative metrics. Participating offers a great opportunity to develop a scientific profile within the community and may ultimately be very beneficial, especially to scientists early in their career.
Brock University Library TA Day Consurrent Session slide show - September 10...
Fa2012 college level research peck
1. College Level Research:
Diana Aram
Technology Librarian
daram@nvcc.edu
http://nova.libguides.com/CST229PeckFA2012
2. The Research Process
What should information
Where Look like? What should information
does information come from?
Do for you?
• People • Truthful • Give examples
• Internet • Accurate • Support my
• Books • Authoritative topic
• News • Easy to • Give me ideas
• Journals understand • Answer my
• Facebook • Objective question
• TV
3. Wisdom in Song Lyrics
“You can’t always get what you
want. But if you try sometimes
well you might find You get what
you need.”
Jagger, Mick, and Keith Richards. You Can't Always Get What You Want. London: Decca Records, 1969. Print.
4. Research is a Journey –
Starting with…
What is your topic?
What are your search terms?
How about synonyms and
related terms?
9. Revise and Repeat
Revise you search terms/
strategy
Narrow Topic
Explore one aspect of topic
10. Avoid Target Fixation
O Change is inevitable
O It’s possible you (or someone else is
wrong)
O Know how to get unstuck and move
on
O More than one way.
13. The Filter Bubble
“The ultimate search engine
would understand what you
mean and give you back exactly
what you want.”
- Larry Page, Co-founder of Google
19. Types of Databases
O Reference
O Article
O Bibliographic
O eBook
O Music & Video
20. Research & Search Tips
Identify:
Topic
Keywords
Synonyms & related terms
21. Topic & Keywords
O Voting laws and the presidential
election
O Other possible search terms:
- Voting rights
- 2012
- Identification requirements
22. “Phrase searching”
Searches for words in exact
order, as a package.
O “Great Depression”
O “Digital Divide”
O “19th Century” or “Nineteenth
Century”
23. AND: Focuses a search
O “Voter rights” AND election
O India AND culture AND
customs
24. OR: Broadens a search
Washington DC OR District of
Columbia
27. Review: Evaluation
O Currency: When was it created
O Relevance: How does it relate to topic
O Authority: Who created/ wrote it
O Accuracy: Evidence?
O Purpose: Who’s the audience? Bias?
28. Review: Cite Your
Sources!
O Citation builders
O Web: Online Writing Lab (OWL)
O Print: Rules for Writers, MLA Handbook for
Writers & Research Papers
29. Review: What makes an
effective Researcher?
O Knows where to search
O Knows how to search
O Evaluates findings
O Gives credit (cites sources)
31. Questions?
Research Guide:
http://nova.libguides.com/CST229PeckFA2012
Editor's Notes
On a whiteboard, I write out: Where does information come from? (in general, not just for assignments/class projects)Students inevitably answer things such as: books, Internet, journals, magazines,newspapers, Google, Facebook, cell phone, TV, people, etc…We discuss that information comes from a variety of sources.Then I ask: What do you want your information to be like?Popular answers are usually: truthful, accurate, authoritative, easy to understand,quick to find, brief (short).Then I emphasize using authoritative and accurate information. And although it’s nice if the information is “short,” that might not always be the case with the research process. But I point out that we’re here to help them navigate through it!The last question I ask is: What do you want that information to do for you?Popular answers include: give me examples, give me ideas, help support my opinion, make my writing better, get me a good grade.I point out that these are all good examples. Then I make the case that they use the skills of finding and evaluating information everyday (You just showed me up on the board!) and that they just need to take those skills and apply it to the library’s resources.
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