First-Year Experience Research Guide

On this page you will find various boxes including tutorials, short quizzes, and important resources related to using information. Within one of the boxes are tabbed pages (think tabbed dividers within a notebook!).  Be sure to click on each tab to review all the information you need.

• Identify researched sources to create a debatable and provable thesis statement.
• Use resources ethically and legally by giving credit to others for their original ideas.
• Apply reflective thinking about past research projects to future research products and processes.

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Entire tutorial runs 9:34 minutes.

Individual sections:

• Thesis statements as debatable claims (2:01)
• Provable (1:51)
• Difficult to Refute (2:00)
• Addresses Competing Claims (1:50)
• Educates Readers (0:52)
• Relevance Test (1:00)

Using Information as Evidence Quiz: https://ccsu.libwizard.com/f/FYE-UsingInfoasEvidence

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Entire tutorial runs 7:16 minutes.

Individual sections:

• Balancing Act (1:14)
• Plagiarism (2:03)
• Two Kinds of Citations (1:18)
• Things to Cite (2:03)
• Rules for Citing (0:38)

Plagiarism Quiz: https://ccsu.libwizard.com/f/FYE-Plagiarism

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Entire tutorial runs 14:42 minutes.

Individual sections:

• A Time for Reflection (2:28)
• Reflecting on your End Product (3:30)
• Reflecting on your End Product (cont.) (3:00)
• Reflecting on your Process (2:45)
• Reflecting on your Process (cont.) (2:59)

Reflection Quiz: https://ccsu.libwizard.com/f/FYE-reflection