Guides of Interest
Google Scholar
SAGE Resources for Research and Research Instruction
The content in SAGE Research Methods offers you a comprehensive introduction to the basics of research. SAGE’s content will help you design and conduct your own projects. SAGE Research Methods can help you support others as a project supervisor or methods instructor.
The specially commissioned collection of social research case studies from SAGE Research Methods Cases can be searched or browsed. It is intended to help you understand the application of abstract methodological concepts in realistic research contexts.
- SAGE Research MethodsProvides over 1,000 core texts as well as thousands of additional videos, cases, datasets, tools, and how-to guides for research methods across the disciplines.
Plagiarism Guide Questions
The Complete Guide to Referencing and Avoiding Plagiarism by ISBN: 0335241034Publication Date: 2010-02-01
Learning More About Citing Sources
- Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL)Purdue University's OWL resource offers many helpful examples and guidelines for citing sources. It will help you understand the difference between summarizing, paraphrasing, and directly quoting.
Evaluating Scholarly Sources
A number of web-based resources are available to help you understand what is and what is not scholarly and peer-reviewed. Be aware that some publications are scholarly in their appearance, but not necessarily peer-reviewed (refereed).
Access this link to a poster on Bad Science - http://www.compoundchem.com/2014/04/02/a-rough-guide-to-spotting-bad-science/
Can you summarize at least 5 identifying characteristics of a potential bad science article according to the poster?
Visit the Ulrich'sWeb resource from the Databases A-Z link on the UIC-LHS website. http://library.uic.edu/lhs/chicago (find the "U" section). Look up a journal in Ulrich's and pass your cursor/pointer over the Star and the Black Shield icons. They tell you about the journal status as peer-reviewd and/or refereed.