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HIST 396A: WAR, SOCIETY AND CULTURE
Miranda F Spielermspieler@email.arizona.edu
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- Image databases
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Getting started with your research
These are tutorial guides to beginning a research paper, all of which focus on basic skills: locating documents, choosing sources wisely, interpreting materials, planning your paper, and avoiding plagiarism.
Assignment Scheduler
Use this tool to plan the work you need to do to complete a research assignment. The tool outlines all the steps of the research process such as focusing your topic, designing a research strategy, finding and evaluating resources, and writing the paper.
Avoiding Plagiarism
Learn what plagiarism is and how to avoid it. Learn the definition of "common knowledge," and how to handle paraphrasing and quoting.
Catalog Tutorial (UA Library)
Learn how to search the UA LIbrary Catalog by keyword, author, and title. This tutorial included self assessment quizzes as well as a printable final quiz.
Citation Guide
Learn about citation resources including citation guides for MLA, APA and the Chicago Manual of Style. Link to information about software for creating citations and bibliographies including Refworks and EndNote Web.
Popular vs. Scholarly Articles (Guide)
Learn the difference between popular and scholarly articles.
JSTOR
Learn how to locate articles within JSTOR. This includes how to search and how to interpret results.
Learn how to use concept mapping to help select keywords for your topic, creating your search string, and revising it as necessary based on your results.
Search Strategy Builder
Learn how to search using Boolean logic (and / or / not ) to create effective searches.
Popular vs. Scholarly Articles (Tutorial)
Learn the difference between popular and scholarly articles. Includes a graded quiz.
Primary Research Articles: Article Analysis Exercise
Learn how to analyze an article and its bibliographic information to determine whether or not you are looking at a primary research article.
Primary Research Articles: Article Analysis Form
Learn how to analyze an article and its bibliographic information to determine whether or not you are looking at a primary research article. This fill-in-the-blank is to be used after completing http://www.library.arizona.edu/help/tutorials/courses/comm/research/primary/exercise.html
Learn how to sift out the misinformation and get to the truth. Michael Shermer of Skeptic Magazine lays out a "Baloney Detection Kit," ten questions we should ask when encountering a claim. 14 min. 40 sec.
Historical Abstracts
Learn how to find articles using the America: History and Life and Historical Abstracts databases. Learn which of these databases to use to find different types of historical information.
Finding Primary Resources
Learn how to find primary history sources, including documents, images and newspapers.
Research Rules to Live By
Learn the steps of the research process, including choosing, exploring, and focusing a topic; identifying the best types of information to use; selecting the right resources and evaluating the information you find.
Mind-Mapping Your Topic
Learn how to think about and focus your topic.
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