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Research

Why Should I Care?

As a student, you have learned how to gather information on all sorts of topics. In college, your game will go up a notch. Your professors have higher expectations about the quality of sources that you should be using in your research papers.

This lesson has 4 parts

  • Using Internet Sources
    • Search engines
    • Wikipedia 
    • ChatGPT
  • Library
    • Online
    • In person
  • Reading Tips
    • Table of contents
    • Index
    • Bibliography
  • Note-taking
    • Manuscript
    • Content Matrix

What is Research?

In this lesson, we will cover the skills you need to develop to start finding books and articles. If you want more information about the kinds of documents and sources that are available, their advantages and disadvantages, please read the section of this manual called Sources.

  • Using Internet Sources

Your first stop should be the well known internet search engines, such as Google Search. Keep in mind there are many other search engines that may find more information than Google.

Big Three

https://www.google.com
www.bing.com
www.yahoo.com

Engines That Don't Track You

https://duckduckgo.com/ 
https://swisscows.com/en
https://www.wiki.com/
https://archive.org/
https://searx.thegpm.org/

 
https://twitter.com/home


 

 

    • Search engines
    • Wikipedia 
    • ChatGPT
  • Library
    • Online
    • In person
  • Reading Tips
    • Table of contents
    • Index
    • Bibliography
  • Note-taking
    • Manuscript
    • Content Matrix


References and Further Reading

APA style references