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Evaluating

Summary

Congratulations you have completed Evaluating, the last unit of the Research 101 tutorial. You should now have:

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A basic understanding of the Internet and can distinguish scholarly from popular communication, and primary from secondary sources.

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A general picture of the information world within which research takes place and the differences among some important information sources

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Selected a topic, generated a research question, and selected key concepts and terms to use when you search for information.

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A basic understanding of databases, field searching, logical operators and related strategies, and have executed at least one search for information.

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Learned how to read citations and use them to find information sources.

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Developed criteria for evaluating your search strategy and information sources.

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