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Education Research Guide
Confused about where to start your research? Use this guide to find reference materials, books, journal databases, and websites related to education.
Find Articles in Steely Databases
This tutorial offers step-by step instructions for locating articles in Steely databases, even if your article is not available in full-text.
Research 101
This set of tutorials offers a crash course in basic research skills.
Choose a Research Topic & Establish a Research Plan
This tutorial will provide step by step instructions, demonstrating how to choose a research topic and establish a research plan.
Conducting a Literature Review
This tutorial details how to conduct a literature review and lists Steely Library resources where you can locate the resources for your research topic.
Popular vs. Scholarly Journals
This interactive tutorial will demonstrate the differences between popular and scholarly journals.
Scholarly Journals
This tutorial describes scholarly journals, research articles and the peer review process.
Searching Tips and Strategies
This tutorial has helpful searching tips that can be applied to searching the library catalog, online databases and the internet.
Evaluating Worksheet
Use this worksheet to help determine the credibility and usefulness of your sources.
You might also want to take the Evaluating section of Research 101.
ERIC Tutorials
ERIC, The Educational Resource Information Center, provides citations, abstracts, and full text for articles in educational and education-related journals. These tutorials will help you learn some of the features of the database. There are tutorials for the U.S. Department of Education (web) version of ERIC.
U.S. Department of Education (web)
Plagiarism & You
This guide will show you how to use information correctly without plagiarizing. You will learn how to recognize plagiarism, and how to tell the difference between plagiarism and appropriate use of information in research papers.
Style Guides
Don’t know how to cite your work in the appropriate style? This web page gives valuable information on most citation styles including APA, MLA, and Chicago.
Ref Works
Want help creating your bibliography? RefWorks is a web-based research management, writing and collaboration tool, designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies. This website offers tips for getting started with RefWorks and offers tutorials.
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