Information Competency Video Tutorials   Tags: english, information competency, research, videos, writing  

Watch these video tutorials to help prepare yourself for that upcoming research assignment or Information Competency Exam. 

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• Getting Started
• 1. Why you need to cite sources
• 2. Developing a topic
• Searching for Stuff
• 3. What is a library database?
• 4. Generating search terms
• 5. Popular vs. scholarly sources
• Your Sources
• 6. Using sources in your paper
• 7. Voice markers
• 8. A Plagiarism Carol
• The Internet in Research
• 9. Evaluating Internet resources
• 10. How to use the CRAAP test to evaluate websites
• 11. Using Wikipedia for Academic Research
• Power Users
• 12. A Fair(y) Use Tale
• 13. CSM Worldcat
• 14. Using Google Scholar