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Finding Articles - Learning Outcomes
- Identify key places to search for articles.
- Understand how to read an article record in a research database in order to predict its usefulness.
- Construct an appropriate search strategy in a research database to find articles.
- Identify MLA, APA, and Chicago citation styles and construction for scholarly articles.
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Finding Articles Activities
- Examine sources and evaluate using criteria
- Talk about the preferred documentation style in your discipline. Have a citation relay where students submit parts of a citation and put them in order.
- Dissect and review the citations on the course syllabi
- Use LibGuides to find the best article according to your discipline using the Finding Articles worksheet
- Have students find an article about a topic of interest in Research Library. Using the abstract, facilitate a discussion about each article and how useful it would be for research
- Have students include citations in all discussion posts
