Source strengths & weaknesses
Contributor: Logan Miller With the Internet’s ever-expanding repository of information, appraising potential sources has become…
Refining searches using Boolean operators
Contributor: Tony DeFilippo When searching online databases, you often get too many or too few…
Reading strategies
Reading, like writing, is an active process. Reading involves three major phases: previewing, reading, and…
Note taking
Contributors: UWC Staff Note taking while reading Key ideas: Good note taking skills start before…
Hunting down sources
The research essay can be scary when you are struggling to find resources. Many are…
Guide to Writing Research Papers
A research paper IS/DOES: Require many reliable sources to back up your thesis/claim. Take up…
Evaluating references using the C.R.A.A.P. test
There comes a time in every author’s life when he must decide whether a source…