Gives you an introduction to and overview of college level research and goes over what you will be doing in Lesson 1.

1. CPRG 105: Lesson 1
Doing College Level Research

5. 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

9.  Cycle of Information
 Types of Sources
 Scholarly vs. Popular
 Intro to Citation
 Gumberg Library Website
 Intro to our Research Focus: Ebola virus

11. Turn on the
News
Newspapers
Magazines
Scholarly
Journals
Event
Happens
Books

12. Websites Books Articles

13. 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

14. I want you to
use
Peer Reviewed
Scholarly Journal
Articles!

15. 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.

16. “To cite,
or not to cite…
THAT is the
question!”

17.  Librarian
 HOW to cite
is usually
more of a
problem!

19. MLA, 7th edition APA, 6th edition

20. Gumberg Library, Duquesne University 08/01/12 1
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.

21.  AUTHOR Information
 TITLE Information
 Publication DATE
 PUBLISHING Information

22. MLA Style APA Style

23.  A different aspect of citing
in both MLA and APA styles
each week
 Use our MLA/APA Style Guide to assist you,
as well as the many citation resources
available in Citation Help under TOOLS in Bb.

25. http://www.duq.edu/library

28. - The New York Times (YouTube)