Library research skill exercise #1
Individual exercise - pondering and providing answers. [Courtesy of Carolyn Caffrey Gardner]
- What is your research topic?
- List 3-5 possible search terms you might use to find relevant sources on your chosen topic.
- Select an appropriate databases in the Databases A-Z by reading the database description for the research topic.
- Find one peer-reviewed journal article you could consider using in your research paper. Copy and paste the APA citation.
- What idea, source, or author do you want to find more about based on the source you just found?
- Based on the results you found, list 2-3 other search terms you might use to find more sources.
Library research skill exercise #2
Individual exercise - creating citations using APA Style
- Create an APA citation for a book chapter
- Create an APA citation for a journal article
Library research skill exercise #3 (optional)
Group exercise - performing an autopsy of a scholarly article. For this activity, you will:
- Break into groups and assign in-group tasks.
- Complete a worksheet that answers specific questions about a scholarly article.
- Look at a non-scholarly article and compare the two types.
- Present your findings to the class.
- Turn in your worksheet before leaving the library classroom.
Adopted from Scholarly Article Autopsy created by Krista Bowers Sharpe.