English 101

Literature Research Guide
Confused about where to start your research? Use these guides to find reference materials, books, journal databases, and websites for your subject area.
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.
Find Current Event Articles Using Steely Resources
This tutorial will discuss how to find a current event topic and how to use library resources to find information related to your chosen issue.
How to Find a Research Topic
This tutorial demonstrates how to find ideas for a research topic, how to formulate a research question, and how to identify keywords in your research question. 2:52 minutes.
Searching Tips and Strategies
This tutorial has helpful searching tips that can be applied to searching NKUIRE, online databases and the internet. 2:21 minutes.
Research 101-Topics (Basic Pointers)
This tutorial gives pointers on how to begin your research.
Research 101-Topics (Broadening a Research Question)
This tutorial gives strategies on how to broaden a topic that is too narrow.
Research 101-Information Cycles
This tutorial explains the concept of the information cycle.
Research 101-Information Cycles (Sources Model)
This tutorial gives an overview of the components of the information cycle tutorial.
Research 101-Finding (Library Catalogs)
This tutorial describes the library catalog and it's importance.
Research 101-Finding (Library Organizations: Sections)
This tutorial describes the differences in public, academic and school libraries. It also explains how they categorize materials.
Research 101-Searching (Database Coverage)
This tutorial describes the types of information sources found in a database.
Research 101-Searching (Field Searching)
This tutorial explains the difference between keyword searching and an advanced search based on specific fields such as author, title or subject.
Research 101-Evaluating (Your Search Strategy)
This tutorial gives some tips if you found too much information, too little information, or the wrong information in your search.
Researching for an Argumentative Paper or Speech
This tutorial is designed to introduce a beginning researcher to credible and reliable resources available in Steely Library. It will provide some tips for researching topics related to a persuasive assignment.
Choose a Research Topic & Establish a Research Plan
This tutorial helps you choose an appropriate subject and establish a research plan.
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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