Too much Googling and plagiarism?Too much Googling and plagiarism?
Not enough critical thinking?
Are your students copying and pasting indiscriminately from the web for research assignments?
Are you spending a lot of of your own time teaching your students how to avoid plagiarism, and how to do effective information research?
Save time and get better research papers!
Just point your students to a self-help online tutorial on information researching and documentation—“
Road to Research" <http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/library/> Tell them which modules you want them to use.
Then login later, pick your term and class, see which students took it and their scores, and which did not.
No pre-registration required.
MAIN FEATURES:
- Self-paced modules with pretests, lessons, exercises, short (2-3 min.) Flash movies in various languages, and quizzes:
- Starting Points: Select, narrow and broaden research topics, and pick useful research tools.
- Find It!: Find useful books, articles and web pages by using the UCLA Library Catalog, periodical indexes, and the advanced features of Google.
- Judge for Yourself: Evaluate research tools, including periodical indexes and Google Scholar, as well as books, articles and web sites,
- Road Etiquette: Avoid plagiarism and cite materials according to several citation styles
- Flash movies on…
- finding books
- finding periodicals
- finding articles
- using and evaluating Google Scholar and PsycInfo scholarly search engines
- saving citations as a bibliography formatted in various citation styles, using search results from Cambridge Scientific Abstracts databases,
- Quizzes test learning – You can check your students' scores online any time.
Try it as a GUEST or contact Esther Grassian, UCLA College Library, for more information <estherg@library.ucla.edu> or 310-206-4410
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