Six Steps to Successful Research
Six Steps to Successful Research
1. Choose a paper topic
2. Find background information
3. Search smarter, faster, better
4. Find primary documents
5. Evaluate your sources
6. Cite your sources
Student Rubric for the Research Paper
Research Links
APA Formatting and Style Guide
APA (American Psychological Association) is used to cite sources within the social sciences. This resource offers examples for the general format of APA research papers.
Citation Machine
APA/MLA citation generator
Destiny
TF North Online Book Catalog
Easy Bib
Automatic Bibliography & Citation Maker
EbscoHost
Contains full-text sources from magazines, newspapers, primary source documents, biographies, almanacs, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference resources.
EbscoHost Searching Student Research Center Tutorial
EbscoHost Emailing/Printing/Saving/Formatting Citations Instructions
Find-It Illinois
Illinois State Library's online, statewide, digital library.
First Search
Information found here is considered scholarly and well researched. Databases included are WorldCat, ABI Inform, PerAbs, and Wilson Select.
MLA Formatting and Style Guide
MLA (Modern Language Association) style is most commonly used to write papers and cite sources within the liberal arts and humanities. This resource offers examples for the formatting of MLA research papers.
OttoBib.Com
Generates citations for bibliographies or works cited pages for books by ISBN number or title.
RefDesk.Com
An online reference center with links to sources found in most public libraries. (Almanacs, Atlases, Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Thesauri, etc.)
SWAN
Online access to the Metropolitan Library System's libraries. Students can search all seventy-five libraries in the Metropolitan Library System's holdings by author, keyword, subject, and title.
Turn It In.Com Student User Guide