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Developing a Research Question This learning object includes a handout with questions to guide students to developing a research outcome.
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Book Spine Poetry This activity is meant to engage studio art students in the library through browsing and serendipitous discovery. Research has shown that art students have a preference for browsing as an information search strategy.
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SLM 621: Citations as Seeds and Getting Organized with Google Sheets In a session prepared for SLM 621 students, tips on how to search library databases is shared along with the activity "Citations as Seeds" to show students how to use the references section on an article to find related articles.
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ENG 111 (2022) The ENG 111: Miami University Libraries module uses digital resources to develop and strengthen your ability to identify, locate, and evaluate, different types of information. Items include text tutorials, videos, interactive exercises to practice concepts, and short quizzes.
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Sport Leadership & Management 402 This item is a Google Site which includes a lesson plan on how to use library resources for research in Sports Studies as well as an in-class activity on using citations to explore further research.
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ENG 111 Library Instruction (2021) Intended for students to learn how to use basic library research services, like how to find instructional videos and relevant resources for their current assignment.
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Researching for the Literature Review
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Primary & Secondary Research
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Planning Your Research for ENG 119
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Focusing Your Topic This activity gets students brainstorming their topics before they decide what keywords to use for research. Students are asked to think about the who, what, where, when, and why of their topics. After students brainstorm, they will define three major concepts and synonyms for those major concepts to use as keywords in their database research.
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Developing Keywords to Search After students do the freewrite in the first question, questions 2 and 3 are then modeled on a large whiteboard with an example research question. After modeling how to break down a research question into major concepts and coming up with synonyms for each concept, students are asked to work independently on this. After a few minutes students can trade worksheets with a partner and add on to that students list of keywords or students can simply recall what they wrote down with feedback from the library instructor. Students use this worksheet to help them search for relevant articles on their topics.
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Early Semester Personal Library Research Response For this assignment, you are to locate and describe sources relating to your own experience. Use library resources to find and describe two sources. Find and describe two sources related to one of the following three questions ...
