Navigating the Research Process: College Level Research Tutorial - ARTHIST105: Asian Art & Architecture | Fall 2020 (Wang) - UWM Libraries Research and Course Guides at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

College-Level Research Tutorial

College-Level Research Tutorial | Link to full tutorial content
Each module of this tutorial will help you understand and do the work of college-level research. Through a series of examples, how-to videos, practice activities, and reflection questions, each section of the tutorial supports growth in different stages of curiosity-driven scholarship. Modules are designed to build upon one another, but each module can be used on its own. As a whole, this tutorial is meant to support your growth and development as a college student and engaged digital citizen.

These modules are designed to teach you practices and ways of thinking about information that will allow you to:

Transform personal curiosity into college-level inquiry (MODULE 1)
Understand and select sources based on their author, audience, and purpose (MODULE 2)
Strategically and methodically search for sources to support a specific research objective (MODULE 3)
And to share your ideas in ways that do not silence or exploit the work of others (MODULE 4)

Focusing Your Curiousity | Honing Your Research Question
By the end of this Module, you'll learn how to:
+ Develop search terms based on information you already know
+ Use terms and concepts from search results to find and select appropriate sources
+ Understand that your ideas are part of both broader and more specific conversation

Thinking Critically About Sources
By the end of this Module, you'll learn that:
+ Different types of sources have different purposes and audiences
+ Making sense of a source’s author, audience, and purpose helps us determine how we might use the information in a source

Developing a College-Level Search Strategy
By the end of this Module, you'll learn strategies for:
+ Making choices about searching and selecting sources in order to achieve a specific purpose and help build credibility with a targeted audience
+ Building confidence navigating and participating in scholarly conversations

Crediting and Creating
By the end of this Module, you'll learn that:
+ Build confidence navigating and participating in scholarly conversations
+ Identify ethical ways to engage with the ideas and research of others

Recommendation for best success navigating Library resources: Watch all of the videos associated with all four modules.

NOTE: There are three tutorial videos per module and they are very short. It will be time well spent!