Student Tips

STUDENT TIPS AND RESOURCES

Library Resources

TILT -- Texas Information Literacy Tutorial (TILT)

http://ezproxy.txwes.edu/TILT/

This page is intended to help students understand all the resources available at the Library. It is an interactive tutorial, sponsored by UT System Digital Library, designed to help students with the research process.

There are three modules with a quiz to be completed at the end. Each module is estimated to take 30 minutes.

Topics of the three modules are as follows:

* Common misconceptions about the internet (Introduction)
* Selecting the best source of information for research (Module 1)
* Searching techniques (Module 2)
* Locating, evaluating, and citing print and electronic resources (Module 3)

Chronicle of Higher Education available from computers on campus

http://chronicle.com
To test access, go to The Chronicle's home page and click on any of the news updates which are
normally available to subscribers only. Or search our archive of back issues. You should not be asked for a user name or password. For a quick summary of what all your authorized users now have access to,
please visit our site map at http://chronicle.com/search/guide/ In order to get the most "bang" for your bucks, you might want to call people's attention to our RSS (Really Simple Syndication) news feeds. Anyone can set up their computer to receive Chronicle RSS news feeds on their desktop. Or, if your college has a Web page dedicated to news, you can add
Chronicle news feeds to your Web page. We have plans to add additional RSS news feeds in the future. Go to http://chronicle.com/help/rss.htm to learn more.
For a listing of all Chronicle e-mail newsletters (some free, some not), go to http://chronicle.com/services/email.htm. (Please note that The Chronicle's Daily Report remains a benefit for those who have individual subscriptions.)
(P.S. Access is also available off-campus for the Chronicle - for more information about off-campus access to the databases the library offers - please contact the Reference Desk at ext. 4802.)

Searching Academic Journals

http://ezproxy.txwes.edu/findingInfo/eresources/alphaDListing.php?alpha=A

http://ezproxy.txwes.edu/findingInfo/eresources/alphaDListing.php?alpha=S

Then go to SocINDEX

PAPER WRITING and STUDY SKILLS

Information about Plagiarism

http://www.niu.edu/ai/students

This is a most important topic. Please check out this important tutorial. There are six modules with a quiz at the end.

1. Academic Dishonesty - Definition and Types

2. Causes for Academic Dishonesty

3. Consequences of Academic Dishonesty

4. Cheating, Fabrication, Falsification and Sabotage

5. Plagiarism

6. Protecting Yourself

Survey Prototype and Human Subjects Form

Click here for the SurveyPrototype. This is a sample of a survey, including the demographic questions you should include. You will need to change the format to suityour survey. When doing a survey there are several things to remember.
1. Always put a title on the survey.
2. Give a bit of explanation about who is doing the survey - includeyournames.
3. Always include demographic information.
4. Researchers found that the best format includes boxes for respondentsto check.
5. Make the survey neat and easy to read.
6. Put the easy questions first, and the more controversial or difficultquestions at the end.
7. The survey should be short, so that it takes no more than ten minutesto complete.
8. Be sure to ask the all the questions you need to get the informationyou want for your study. It will be difficult or impossible to go backto your respondents if there is something you forgot to ask them.

Terms for Sociology Methods

http://web.txwesleyan.edu/sociology/horsfall/SOCTERMS.html

When you write a research paper, it is useful to know and use the terms common to the methods of research!

The Research Page

http://web.txwesleyan.edu/sociology/research.html

A list of some professional web sites with academic information. Not all are free. But if you find something, you can get it through our library.

The Research Project (a description of the sections)

http://web.txwesleyan.edu/sociology/horsfall/PROJECT.html

A step by step description of what is needed to complete a research project, including the Senior Project. Any comments here do NOT replace directions or requirements of your instructor.

Applied Research Methods Page

http://web.txwesleyan.edu/sociology/horsfall/Methods.html

Includes some useful web pages.

PBS First Measured Century

http://www.pbs.org/fmc/

This site has LOTS and LOTS of information about things that have been measured throughout the 20th century. Very interesting!