Research Tips

Documentation

All Major Styles- From the Writing Center @ the University of Wisconsin-Madison
http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/Documentation.html

APA Style
http://www.apastyle.org/

Chicago Style Citation Quick Guide
http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html

Citing Government Information Sources - from the University of Nevada, Reno
http://www.knowledgecenter.unr.edu/subjects/guides/government/cite.html

Citation Guides and Style Manuals - from the University of North Texas
http://www.library.unt.edu/govinfo/browse-topics/citation-guides-and-sty...

Citing Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism: Documentation Guidelines - from Duke University
http://www.lib.duke.edu/libguide/citing.htm

How to Prepare an Annotated Bibliography:
http://olinuris.library.cornell.edu/ref/research/skill28.htm

OWL Online Writing Lab: Research and Documenting Sources - from Purdue University
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/index.html

Research and Documentation Online - A Writer's Reference by Diana Hacker
http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/

Evaluation

Evaluate Your Sources - Use A CRAB:
http://www.stlcc.edu/Libraries/Research/Evaluate_Sources.html

Evaluating, Documenting, and Annotating Sources

Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply and Questions to Ask
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html

Five Criteria for Evaluating Web Pages
http://olinuris.library.cornell.edu/ref/research/webcrit.html

The Good, the Bad & the Ugly: Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources - New Mexico State University
http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/evalcrit.html

Widener University’s Wolfgram Library web page evaluation
http://www.widener.edu/libraries/wolfgram/evaluate

Research Process

A+ Research and Writing
http://www.ipl.org/div/aplus

Scholarly vs. Popular Periodicals
http://lib.skidmore.edu/library/index.php/help-topics/35-help/69-scholar...

The Seven Steps of the Research Process:
http://olinuris.library.cornell.edu/ref/research/tutorial.html