Guides: B.E.A.R. Camp Resources: Student-Athlete Center for Excellence: Skills You'll Need

Research Skills

Choosing Search Terms
Tips for searching and getting good, focused results.
Connecting Keywords
Drilling down to get just the information you need, not everything.
How to Read a Citation
Information Timeline
It takes time for a news event to become a source of scholarly research. Here's a video on what that timeline looks like.

Organizing Your Information

As you gather information, consider using an online program such as Refworks or Zotero to organize the materials you find.

With these tools, you can import information from many different library databases, organize the research materials into folders and automatically format the citation information in your papers.

Other Skills

Guide to Grammar and Writing
Excellent review of basic grammar issues with very good explanations, examples, and quizzes. If you are always being told you have "run on sentences," or "comma splices," or "subject-verb agreement" issues in your writing, this site will help you understand the proper use of these and other features of English grammar.
Plagiarism and How to Avoid It
A very good learning experience as this tutorial teaches you not only how to identify plagiarism but how to avoid it by learning to write good paraphrases.
MLA Style: The Purdue OWL Page
From here you can take the Purdue OWL Workshop on MLA Style or look for the specific bit of format style you need.

B.E.A.R. Camp Resources: Student-Athlete Center for Excellence: Skills You'll Need

Research Skills

Organizing Your Information

Organizing Your Information

Other Skills

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