Evaluating

Summary

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

• A basic understanding of the Internet and can distinguish scholarly from popular communication, and primary from secondary sources.
• A general picture of the information world within which research takes place and the differences among some important information sources
• Selected a topic, generated a research question, and selected key concepts and terms to use when you search for information.
• A basic understanding of databases, field searching, logical operators and related strategies, and have executed at least one search for information.
• Learned how to read citations and use them to find information sources.
• Developed criteria for evaluating your search strategy and information sources.