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Research assignments

This guide should help you regardless of your area of study. What is the most effective way of presenting the information? What are the most important topics, subtopics, etc., that your paper needs to include? What order should you present them?

Information Literacy Tutorials

Hands-On Learning

These brief tutorials are a good resource to learn about conducting research, creating citations, and more! Click through the tabs to begin the tutorial for each subject. 

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More citation help:

We have an entire guide dedicated to citations to help you with any citation style. 

Video Tutorials


Finding & Searching in Specific Publications

Are you looking for articles in a specific publication, such as a specific newspaper or magazine? This tutorial will show you how to find and search within a specific publication. 

This site is for users of Mitchell, M. L., Jolley, J. M., & O'Shea, R. P.(2013). Writing for psychology (4th ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
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