Want to Improve Your Research Skills?

If you want to learn effective ways to search for information, you might consider signing up for Computer Based Academic Research (CSIT1050) This is a 1 credit class which is offered every quarter (twice each semester) We meet on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons from 2:00-2:50 p.m.

Freshman students are especially encouraged to enroll; this course is designed to help you be effective researchers and users of information sources throughout your college career.

In this class, we cover a wide range of topics, including:

• Effective searching for books in library catalogs and book databases
  
  
• Searching for, and within online books and documents

• Searching for journal, magazine, and newspaper articles

• Effective use of a variety of Internet search engines

• Advanced searching in Google using the large number of specialized Google search tools

• Using online tools to create bibliographic citations in MLA, APA and other formats

• Finding primary sources in databases of historical documents

• Using online reference resources

• Using useful consumer resources to find such things as product reviews, employment, housing, etc

• Identifying and using news and media resources

If you have any questions about this course, please contact Francis Acland.

641.784.5303
acland@graceland.edu