Brian's Top 10 Things First-Year Students
Should Know about Using College Libraries to Do Research

Brian lists ten things he has learned about doing research for course-related papers. He highlights some of the tips that librarians have shared with him. [PDF]

Reference Books: A Hidden Treasure

Jason shares his insights on why reference books can be a useful tool when you are starting to write a research paper or when you need quick facts. [Web page]

Free Online Reference Tools

A selected list of reference tools including dictionary and thesauir that can help you in your courses. [Web page]

Emily's Top 10 Tips for Writing Papers

Emily offers helpful suggestions for writing a paper--from brainstorming to revising--and suggests some great Web sites to consult. [PDF]

Jason's Tips for Avoiding Plagiarism

Jason provides a brief description of why you should avoid plagiarizing and offers links to useful Web sites and tutorials [Web page]

Search Engines Are Not Created Equal

When you do a search for information on the Web you will get different results depending on whether you are using Google, Yahoo, or a different search engine. Links to learning more about search engines are provided here. [Web page]

Brian's Best Citation Sites

Brian provides links to Web sites that explain a variety of citation styles and that even generate citations for you so that you won't lose points for incorrectly formatting your citations. [Web page] [PDF]