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Introduction
1. Background Reading
2. Narrowing a Topic
3. The Purpose of Research Questions
4. Influence of a Research Question
5. Regular vs. Research Questions
6. Developing Your Research Question
7. Categorizing Sources
8. Quantitative or Qualitative
9. Fact or Opinion
10. Primary, Secondary & Tertiary Sources
11. Popular, Professional, & Scholarly
12. Publication Formats and the Information Lifecycle
13. Scholarly Articles as Sources
14. News as a Source
15. Data as Sources
16. People as Sources
17. Thinking Critically About Sources
18. Sources and Information Needs
19. Sources to Meet Needs
20. Planning Your Sources
21. Roles of Research Sources
22. BEAM: A Solution That Might Shine
23. Why Precision Searching?
24. Main Concepts
25. Related and Alternative Terms
26. Search Statements
27. Discovery Search Systems
28. Specialized Databases
29. Web Search Engines
30. Advanced Search in Google
31. Google Scholar
32. Tips for Common Search Tools
33. Ethical Use and Citing Sources
34. Why Cite Sources?
35. Challenges in Citing Sources
36. Evaluating for Relevancy
37. Evaluating for Credibility
38. A Source's Neighborhood
39. Author and Publisher
40. Degree of Bias
41. Recognition from Others
42. Thoroughness
43. Combining the Factors
44. Citation and Citation Styles
45. Steps for Citing
46. Citation Software
47. When to Cite
48. The Purpose of Academic Argument
49. Components of an Argument
50. Order of the Components
51. Where You Get the Components
52. Your Argument Plan
53. When to Quote, Paraphrase, or Summarize
54. Helping Others Follow
55. Synthesis of Your Own Ideas
56. What Is Fair Use?
57. The Four Factors
58. Evaluating Your Case for Fair Use
59. Common Examples of Fair Use
60. What Is Copyright?
61. What Copyright Covers
62. Rights Granted by Copyright
63. Respecting Copyright
64. Exceptions to Copyright
65. Creative Commons - An Alternative
66. Public Domain and Term of Copyright
67. Thinking About Roles of Sources
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