Using These Audiocasts
The audiocasts to the right cover common research skills topics. Listen to them on your computer or download to your mp3 player.
Citation Resources
The Craft of Research by ISBN: 9780226062648Publication Date: 2009-05-01With more than 200,000 copies in print, The Craft of Research is the unrivaled resource for researchers at every level, from first-year undergraduates to research reporters at corporations and government offices. Now, seasoned researchers an
- APA Formatting and Style Guide (The OWL at Purdue)APA (American Psychological Association) style is most commonly used to cite sources within the social sciences. This resource, revised according to the 6th edition, second printing of the APA manual, offers examples for the general format of APA research papers, in-text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the reference page.
Audiocast Tutorials
- Evaluating ResourcesHere we talk about ways to determine if a resource is appropriate for your research.
- Primary versus Secondary Sources/Periodical TypesThis audiocast goes through the differences between primary and secondary sources and the major periodical types.
Video Tutorials (Require Flash)
- Evaluating InformationThe video covers how to evaluating the usefulness and authority of an information source.
- Research Vocabulary: Library SpeakThis video provides a refresher on important words you may come across while conducting research.
- Primary, Secondary, Tertiary SourcesThis video will guide you through the different source types and when to use them
- Narrowing Down Your Search with Boolean OperatorsThis video will show you how to broaden and narrow your search using the Boolean operators AND, OR, and NOT.
- Reading CitationsThis video will guide you through identifying the most common types of citations you will come across in databases, bibliographies, and other sources.
- Searching Google ScholarThis video guides you to searching Google Scholar and accessing Northwestern University Library resources.