SOCW 611: Advanced Clinical Practice - Individuals & Families : Research Tutorials

Tutorials covering culture and citizenship, including information on cultural issues, global citizenship, civic engagement, civic action, and digital citizenship.

Tutorials covering evaluating information, including materials on authority, bias, evaluating sources, evaluating information, web sources, misinformation, reporting, and lateral reading.

Tutorial on getting started with research, including why information literacy matters, life in the information age, research process, developing a research focus, narrowing a topic, background research, Google/Wikipedia, thesis statements, persuasive writing, and creating a research plan.

Tutorials covering presenting research and data, including information on synthesis, annotated bibliographies, anatomy of a research paper, writing, digital privacy, paraphrasing, quoting, and summarizing, academic writing, and presentation skills.

Tutorial covering searching for information, including searching as exploration, choosing a database, choosing and using keywords, search techniques, and refining search results.

Tutorials covering sources of information, including data, knowledge, primary research, secondary research, peer review, types of sources, primary sources, secondary sources, tertiary sources, and how to read scholarly materials.

Tutorials covering using critical thinking and logic, including information on why thinking matters, inquiry, logical reasoning, evidence-based reasoning, and analyzing information.

Tutorials on visual and quantitative literacy, including materials on searching for images, interpreting images, why visual literacy matters, using quantitative data, and evaluating statistics.

Tutorials on APA citations and academic integrity including why citations matter, APA citation style, academic integrity, plagiarism, and copyright.

Tutorials on Chicago Style citations and academic integrity including why citations matter, Chicago citation style, academic integrity, plagiarism, and copyright.

Tutorials on MLA citations and academic integrity including why citations matter, MLA citation style, academic integrity, plagiarism, and copyright.

Google is a powerful search engine that offers quick and easy web searching. Use the tips and tricks provided in this guide to get the most your of your Google search.

A guide covering the differences between empirical and descriptive articles and how to locate materials in the library's databases.