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Research Smarter: Information Literacy Skills: Home

Build essential research skills for college success and lifelong learning.

Information Literacy: The Basics

Build your Information Literacy skills! Success in college - and in life - requires the ability to:

Recognize information needs
Identify the best resources to meet particular information needs
Efficiently find and skillfully navigate information sources
Critically evaluate information sources
Effectively and ethically use and share information

Sharpen your information literacy skills by exploring the research help topics in this guide and/or Ask a Librarian for expert research assistance.

The Research Process

Video: The Research Process (from Credo's Instruct)
This video will walk you through each step to help you understand the assignment, choose a topic, do background research, create a research question or thesis, search for information, evaluate what you find, and write the paper.

Research Guide for the Critical Thinker

Try this fill-in-the-blank, step-by-step guide to the research process from SIRS Issues Researcher, a library research database.

SIRS Research Guide for the Critical Thinker
Fill in the blanks in this form to get from topic selection to proofreading your paper.

Instruct - Online Information Literacy Modules from Credo Reference

Instruct from Credo Reference - Entire Course
Credo's Instruct modules have been designed to give you a foundation in information literacy and critical thinking. Topics have been divided among six modules; each includes videos, tutorials, and quizzes.

Faculty may contact the library about embedding this content into online courses as well as creating student-specific access for your class.

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