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Video Tutorials

How to Choose a Database
Looking for articles? Learn how to select the best database for your research topic from the over 100 databases LCC subscribes to.

How to Find an Article
Learn how to find an article in General OneFile, a multidisciplinary database with articles on a wide variety of topics.

Library Research Skills

LINKS: Your Guide to Finding Information - Lansing Community College Library
LINKS is a self-instructional tutorial designed to teach LCC students basic library and research skills. It covers the research process from initial topic selection to citation types and the issue of plagiarism.

Creating a Search Query Exercise - University of Washington
By using refrigerator magnets you will have a chance to organize a complex search query based on research questions provided. You will also be able to compare your answer to a suggested search query.

Information Literacy eManual - University of Winnipeg
The eManual contains text, exercises, quizzes and tutorials designed to help you become information literate. Topics include research strategies, library materials, scholarly v popular sources, keyword and subject searching, locating articles, Internet searching, and evaluating and citing resources.

Learning Objects - Northwest Missouri State University
Learn about narrowing topics, Boolean searching, truncation, brainstorming for synonyms, constructing a search strategy, and more with these short and independent tutorials.

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Plagiarism

How to Recognize Plagiarism - Indiana University Bloomington
This tutorial provides good practice for identifying plagiarism. It includes samples (with feedback) of original expository paragraphs with students' paraphrasing. Feedback includes the reasons why the students' work is or is not plagiarism.

You Quote It! You Note It! - Acadia University
This online tutorial is designed to teach students the differences between paraphrasing and directly quoting from sources. Additional practice is provided for knowing when a fact is common knowledge or needs to be cited. The examples in this tutorial use both MLA and APA documentation style.

Understanding Plagiarism - Butler University
This online tutorial uses paraphrased examples of original text to test students' understanding of plagiarism. The examples in this tutorial use MLA documentation style.

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Internet for Research

Learn the Net - LCC Library Internet Bookmarks
Provides a number links to useful web tutorials and resources. Topics include how to navigate the web, formulate an effective search, and evaluate websites. Also includes historical information about the Internet, how the Internet works, and searching technology and politics.

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