Information and Media Literacy Skills (i.e.Research Skills!)

Developing a Research Question

Narrowing a Topic and Developing a Research Question - From University of Indiana Library

Developing Successful Research Questions - From UC Merced Library

Effective Searching Strategies

Keyword Bank - Pick keywords that will help you find relevant results. Keep adding to the bank and you continue with your research and find better terms.

The Boolean Machine
Electronic Searching Strategies: Boolean operators and more
From Common Sense Media: Video and Article on Search Tips for Researching
Using the Advanced Search Function in Google: Video Tutorial
Using Google Scholar

Electronic Searching Strategies, Student activities for effective searching:

- using Google
- using Gale

Evaluating Information:

Misinformation

Types of misinformation infographic

Student pre-assessment from Civic Online Reasoning

Lateral Reading

Click Restraint

News Literacy Resources: Misinformation and Evaluating Sources

Avoiding Plagiarism

"8 Types of Plagiarism" - from iParadigms (makers of Turnitin)
Types of Plagiarism and How to Avoid it - from iParadigms (makers of Turnitin)
"Understanding Plagiarism ... with some help from Dr. Seuss" - from University of Hawaii
The Plagiarism Spectrum - from Turnitin

Videos about plagiarism:

Citing Sources

Online Citation Makers:

Guides for Citing Sources:

MLA Formatting and Style Guide from OWL Purdue
MLA Sample Paper from OWL Purdue
Overview of Using In-Text Citations based upon information from OWL Purdue
MLA Works Cited from OWL Purdue

Paraphrasing and Note Taking

Paraphrasing and Quoting:

Quoting, Paraphrasing and Summarizing - What are the differences and When to use from OWL Purdue
Paraphrasing Lesson