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First-Year Seminar: Review of Core Research Concepts

Director of Research & Instructional Technology

Welcome!

The three tutorials below are intended to serve as a review of three core research concepts you learned about in your First-Year Seminar:

  1. Understanding citations
  2. Distinguishing between scholarly and non-scholarly sources
  3. Using Catalyst (the library catalog) to conduct basic searches for sources

Please work through each tutorial then complete the brief check for understanding found at the bottom of this page. The tutorials and check for understanding will take approximately 30 minutes to complete.

2. Distinguishing between Scholarly and Non-scholarly Sources

3. Using the Library Catalog: Catalyst Basics