Introduction

Welcome to the Research Skills 101 micro-course series, brought to you by the Mary and Jeff Bell Library. Each micro-course (lesson) teaches you essential information literacy skills that will help you succeed in your academic work, but also transferable skills for navigating online information in your daily life long after you complete your coursework. 

Objectives

Upon completion of these 5 micro-courses, and the final assessment, students will:

1. Developing Search Strategy — Identify the key concepts and terminology relevant for a research topic.
2. Understanding the Information Timeline — Define different formats of information.
3. Develop a Research Mindset – Understand the research mindset by identifying the importance of persistence, click restraint, iterative searching, and lateral reading. 
4. Develop a Research Question – Formulate a high-quality research question with appropriate scope based on an initial broad topic.
5. The Scholarly Conversation — Understand research as an ongoing conversation and identify ways to engage with and contribute to scholarly discourse.
6. Ethically using sources — Define plagiarism and demonstrate ways to ethically use sources, including AI-generated material.