142%
Primary Navigation
Primary Navigation
Want to create or adapt books like this? Learn more about how Pressbooks supports open publishing practices.
Book Contents Navigation
Introduction
Lindsey MacCallum and Teaching & Learning Ohio State University Libraries
1. The Purpose of Research Questions
2. Narrowing a Topic
3. Background Reading
4. Regular vs. Research Questions
5. Influence of a Research Question
6. Developing Your Research Question
7. Sources and Information Needs
8. Sources to Meet Needs
9. Planning Your Sources
10. Categorizing Sources
11. Quantitative or Qualitative
12. Fact or Opinion
13. Primary, Secondary & Tertiary Sources
14. Popular, Professional, & Scholarly
15. Publication Formats and the Information Lifecycle
16. Scholarly Articles as Sources
17. News as a Source
18. Data as Sources
19. People as Sources
20. Traditional Knowledge
21. Why Precision Searching?
22. Main Concepts
23. Related and Alternative Terms
24. Search Statements
25. Thinking Critically About Sources
26. Evaluating for Relevancy
27. Evaluating for Credibility
28. A Source’s Neighborhood
29. Author and Publisher
30. Degree of Bias
31. Recognition from Others
32. Thoroughness
33. Combining the Factors
34. Ethical Use and Citing Sources
35. Why Cite Sources?
36. Challenges in Citing Sources
37. Citation and Citation Styles
38. Steps for Citing
39. Citation Software
40. When to Cite
Additional Book Formats
Previous/next navigation
Choosing & Using Sources: A Guide to Academic Research, 1st Canadian Edition Copyright © 2020 by Lindsey MacCallum is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.