Try this new online toolkit to guide your student’s research

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research toolkit streamEnsure your students have easy access to everything they need to know about research tactics and resources — from efficient research strategies to evaluation of source material, appropriate techniques for documenting sources and more.

The CAS Research Sources and Skills Toolkit was created by Victoria Dawkins, librarian for freshman composition and subject liaison for the departments of Art and Art History, Music and Philosophy, but it applies across all subject areas and lifelong learning. It’s already being used by the Department of English, the School of Nursing, the Department of Health Services Administration and the Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology, among others.

The toolkit is divided into seven modules:

  • Module 1: Types of Sources/Source Code
  • Module 2: Subject Headings and Keywords
  • Module 3: Search Strategies
  • Module 4: Database-Searching
  • Module 5: Evaluating Resources
  • Module 6: Citation Creation
  • Module 7: Plagiarism/Copyright

Want to learn more about using the Research Sources and Skills Toolkit with your students? Join Victoria Dawkins for a “Tour through the Toolkit” 1 p.m. Nov. 19 in the Center for Teaching and Learning.

Each module includes a quiz that can be auto-graded into a Canvas gradebook, a Jeopardy!-style game with research-related questions and answers and module-focused notes and voice-overs, all created by UAB Libraries. All seven modules can be taken in their entirety for a certificate of completion.

Want to learn more about using the CAS Research Sources and Skills Toolkit with your students? Join Dawkins for a “Tour through the Toolkit” 1 p.m. Nov. 19 in the Center for Teaching and Learning.

Explore the toolkit online.


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