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ForanPedagogical Goals
To help students with researching a term paper in a literature class.

Goals: To help students learn how to find print materials in the UT Library system. This lesson is particularly useful for students who are new to library research and have not begun to write about their topics.

This handout and worksheet offer students a step-by-step process for locating print sources in UT’s library that are relevant to their research.

Handout is attached.

Students need access to the libary's website in order to use databases to complete the research this assignment involves.

Goals: Students will become familiar with using library databases to do research for class assignments. In order to prepare to write any paper, students must first brainstorm key terms, then use library on-line resources to research those terms.

The best place to start your search for articles on a topic is in a library database, which contains citations* to numerous articles which you can search by title, author, keyword, etc. Some databases also contain the full text of the article.

Library databases work differently than Google – so you’ll need to search them in a different way. You first need to break your topic down into concepts and brainstorm alternate keywords (search terms). Make sure your keywords include broader, narrower and related terms. In our example, the first two columns represent our main concepts. The third column represents aspects of the issue that would be important to the recording industry.

Refer to the attached worksheet to guide your progress.

Goals: To help students learn the basics of using library databases in research. This worksheet assignment is useful for students who are in the early stages of researching their topics.

This worksheet gives students practice conducting database research and highlights the importance of search terms.

Worksheet is attached.

Pedagogical Goals of the Assignment
To determine the reliability of information found on the internet

Pedagogical Goals of the Assignment
To improve web searching.

Pedagogical Goals of the Assignment
To help students learn the basics of using library databases in research.

Pedagogical Goals of the Assignment
Because anyone can publish on the Web, it is important to be able to distinguish between reliable and unreliable web sites. Consider all of the following criteria when evaluating a web site.

Pedagogical Goals of the Assignment
Students will become familiar with using library databases to do research for class assignments.