Quick Skills for Research
This page compiles short, online videos to help students begin the research process. If you are an instructor looking for more teaching resources, see our collection of Lesson Plans, Activities, & Handouts.
Audio and video transcripts are available in the notes section of the tutorials.
These videos are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
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How to turn your ideas into a research topic you can explore.
How to identify the main concepts of your research and turn them into searchable keywords.
Learn how to find articles, books, and more using the MSU Library search interface: CatSearch.
Overview of the peer review process for scholarly research.
Lesson Plans, Activities, and Handouts
In addition to the tutorials listed on this page, the library has lesson plans, activities, and handouts available to help scaffold and teach research assignments. Resources are available for teaching various steps in the research process:
Additional Research Tutorials
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ltimedia content. The videos, interactive tutorials, and quizzes use innovative technology and proven pedagogy to build essential research, information
literacy and critical-thinking skills that will help students thrive in their academic
careers and beyond.
Get links to additional tutorial topics here.
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