This document provides guidance to students on conducting research for a paper on melanoma and tanning. It begins by asking common questions students have, such as where to begin research, how to find peer-reviewed sources, and how to properly use sources in the paper. It then provides steps to help with each part of the research process, emphasizing going to the library for assistance. Key advice includes broadening or narrowing topics, checking the "peer-reviewed" box in searches, properly citing sources using quotations and citations, and ensuring the works cited page is in the correct MLA format. The overarching message is that if students find themselves needing help at any point in the research process, they should go to the library

1. GT2L: Not What You Think
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EDU 100: Path to Success
Tuesday, September 18

2. What Do You Do When…
• You are have a research paper assignment on
melanoma and you have no idea where to
begin?
• Your instructor wants you to find peer-
reviewed articles?
• You aren’t sure how to use your research?
• You need to create a “works cited” page for
your research paper?

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4. The Melanoma Research Thing
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5. Here’s the Situation…
• You’re going to write a
research paper on the
connection between
melanoma and tanning.
• What do you do?
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7. Main Ideas, Key Words, Search Terms
• Main Idea 1: Melanoma = Skin Cancer
• Main Idea 2: Tanning
• Broader Focus (Big Idea) – Not enough info!
– Less specific: cancer
• Narrower Focus (Detail) – Too much info!
– Specific kinds of tanning: tanning beds, indoor
tanning
– Specific types of cancer: actinic keratosis, basal
cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma

8. Another Way to Think of Broadening
and Narrowing Focus
Cancer
Melanoma
Basal Cell
Carcinoma

9. Here’s the Situation… Again.
• Your instructor needs
you to find peer-
reviewed articles for
your research paper.
• What do you do?
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11. Peer-Reviewed Articles
• It’s as easy as checking a box on an online form.
Easy as JWoww!

12. Here’s the Situation… Yet Again.
• You’ve got your
research. Now what?
You don’t know what to
do with your research.
• What do you do?
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MTV

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14. Plagiarization?
COPY
&
PASTE

15. Why Use Quotations & Citations?
• SHOW where your information came from.
• IMPRESS your instructor with your mad
research skillz.
• RESPECT the original author or creator of the
data or research you are building off of.
• ABIDE by our LLTC Academic Integrity policy
and don’t get kicked out of college.
• It’s the right thing to do.

16. What Does It Look Like IRL?
• Direct Quotations (using someone else’s exact
words)
– Two dermatology doctors from Henry Ford
Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, determined: “Indoor
tanning represents an avoidable risk factor for
skin cancer, and education of the general public
as well as the enactment and stricter
enforcement of indoor tanning legislation are a
public health imperative.” (Woo 61)

17. What It Looks Like IRL
• Indirect Quotations (restating or paraphrasing
ideas not your own original)
– Because of increased melanoma risk through
indoor tanning, medical experts recommend
stronger legal intervention and regulation of
indoor tanning, especially for young people
under 18 (Woo 68).
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18. What It Looks Like IRL
• Block Quotations (for really, really, really long
quotations – usually 4+ lines of paper)

19. Here’s the Situation… Finally.
• Your instructor has
asked you create an
MLA-style formatted
“works cited” page.
• What do you do?
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21. Got Style?
• Types of Formatting Not that kind of style!
– MLA (Arts &
Humanities, like
Anishinaabe Studies and
English)
– APA (Social Sciences)
– CSE/CBE (Hard Sciences)
– Ask your instructor
what they want!

22. Cheat Sheets
• Purdue’s Online Writing
Lab [OWL]
– MLA
– APA
• When using MS Word’s
bibliography
option, always double-
check the formatting!
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23. Entry on a MLA “Works Cited” Page
Woo, Denise K., and Melody J. Eide. “Tanning
Beds, Skin Cancer, and Vitamin D: An
Examination of the Scientific Evidence and
Public Health Implications.” Dermatologic
Therapy 23 (2010): 61-71. Electronic.
Accessed through EBSCO Host.

24. So…
If you find yourself in an
academic research
situation, what do you do?
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26. Questions?
• Visit the library
• Call 218-335-4240
• Email library@lltc.edu
• Facebook
Marie & Melissa are
happy to help and are way
smarter than these two.
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27. Professional Inspiration and Credit
• http://ch-ch-
chchanginglibrarian.blogspot.com/search/label/Jersey%20Shore
• http://crln.acrl.org/content/72/2/78.full
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