English Composition 102, 103, 104, 108, 109

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These tutorials and guides will help you develop some of the research skills you'll need for this course.

Tutorials & Guides - How to:

• Academic Search Complete Tutorial

• Assignment Scheduler Interactive Guide

• Beginning Research Tutorial -- This is a fun interactive tutorial created at the University of Illinois at Chicago Library

• Catalog Tutorial

• Develop and Focus your Topic Tutorial

• English Composition Subject Guide Exercise (word doc)

• Explore Pros & Cons of Contemporary Issues (Guide)

• Evaluate Information on the Web (Guide)

• Popular vs. Scholarly Articles Guide,, Tutorial

• Search By Keywords in Library Databases Tutorial

• Selecting the Best Resources for Your Topic Tutorial

• Write Citations - MLA Citation Guide, APA Citation Guide, Tutorial

• Understand & Avoid Plagiarism - Guide --- Tutorial - (This link takes you to the Rules for Writers site. To do this tutorial on plagiarism, you will need to register, which is free and easy. After you log in, on the next screen select "continue" (in purple). Once you finally get into the site, you will see a list of different topics -- select Research Exercises. Then choose MLA. Now select the first Avoiding plagiarism in MLA papers. If you want more practice, go to the next exericise, 53-2. You can do as many as you want.

• Practice Paraphrasing (From OWL at Purdue) http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/619/01/. Look for the paraphrasing exercise at the bottom of the page http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/619/02/.

• You Quote It, You Note It - An interactive tutorial about how to avoid plagiarism and how to cite sources correctly from Vaughan Memorial Library, Acadia University

   

 

Contacts

Leslie Sult , sultl@u.library.arizona.edu, (520) 626-3850

or the Undergraduate Services Team (520) 621-4683