THE RESEARCH PROCESS: LOCATING, EVALUATING, INTEGRATING AND CITING SOURCES

Getting Started: Locating Sources

• Familiarize yourself with different types of sources available (books, newspapers, academic journals, websites, etc.)
• Make use of the library’s “Help with Research Page:” http://library.gmu.edu/research/

Jump to Another Slide: 01. Getting Started: Locating Sources 02. Need More Help? 03. Evaluating Sources: A Checklist 04. Evaluation Practice: Try Out the Checklist with the Following Websites 05. Evaluation Practice: Try Out the Checklist with the Following Websites (cont.) 06. Evaluation Practice: Try Out the Checklist with the Following Websites (cont.) 07. Evaluation Practice: Try Out the Checklist with the Following Websites (cont.) 08. Evaluating Sources 09. Identifying Useful Information 10. Why You Should Document Carefully 11. The George Mason Honor Code 12. Is It Sharing or Stealing? 13. Does That Mean EVERYTHING in My Paper Needs to be Quoted? 14. Examples of Common Knowledge 15. Quiz Yourself! 16. Integrating Useful Information 17. How and When to Quote 18. Introducing Quotes 19. Integrating Quotes 20. Don't Drop, Integrate! 21. Model Essay 22. Formatting Longer Quotations 23. Shortening Lengthy Quotations 24. Quoting Poetry 25. What is Paraphrasing? 26. Why Paraphrase Instead of Quoting? 27. Quoting vs. Paraphrasing (cont.) 28. Quoting vs. Paraphrasing (cont.) 29. In Review: When to Paraphrase 30. How to Paraphrase: Practice 31. How Did You Do? 32. Summarizing 33. Summarization vs. Interpretation 34. When Summarizing Could Fail You 35. Citation: Giving Credit to the Source 36. Choosing a Style: MLA, APA, and Chicago 37. Which Style Should You Use? 38. Other Styles 39. Citation Packets 40. Quiz 41. Question #1 42. Answer to Question #1 43. Question #2 44. Answer to Question #2 45. Question #3 46. Answer to Question #3 47. Question #4 48. Answer to Question #4 49. Documentation and Citation Activity 50. Evaluate, Document and Cite: Conclusion or head back to the list of online workshops.