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Doing Research: An Introduction to the Concepts of Online Searching

 
University of Illinois at Chicago

Author(s): Annie Armstrong and Helen Georgas

Release date: 2005-01-01

Format: Web

Description: An animated, interactive tutorial that introduces undergraduate students to some basic concepts of online searching. These concepts include: 1) Using the search term AND 2) Identifying keywords 3) Thinking of synonyms and related terms 4) Examining a citation and 5) Putting it all together. Concepts are illustrated interactively through a series of highly visual modules/games. Whenever possible, concepts and instructions are explained with a minimum amount of text. The tutorial is not resource or university specific in any way. Rather, any university (or high-school) student could complete it to gain an inderstanding of basic information literacy skills.

Subjects: Information Literacy, Library Pedagogy

Objective: Will guide you through the initial steps of looking for books and articles on a particular topic.

Language(s): en

Time length to use it: 20 minutes

Open to international use: Yes

Geographical scope: International

Audience: Students

Address: georgas@uic.edu