Research Basics and Search Strategies - SPA 405 Dr. Alvaro Lieva - Hispanic Literature in the US

Getting Started with Research

If you are not sure how to begin your research, take a look at these videos and tutorials that can help you jump start the research process.

Getting Started with Research
This group of learning modules complete with short videos will help you ease into the process of starting your research, exploring a topic, and find information.

How to Read Scholarly Materials

Parts of an Academic Article
Don't be daunted by scholarly articles. This set of videos and tutorials will help you navigate an academic article's component parts and break them down into manageable and understandable sections.
Finding and Analyzing Sources
These videos and tutorials will help you find relevant articles, learn to read them critically, and analyze and summarize their content.
Paraphrasing and Summarizing
Paraphrasing and summarizing are ways of incorporating other writers’ ideas into your work without using direct quotes. Using paraphrases and summaries will support your arguments, highlight additional viewpoints, or expand the depth of your writing.

Strategies for Searching

You got yourself a game plan and you know what your looking at when it comes to scholarly articles. Now it's time to trim our topic, capture our keywords, and dive into databases. These videos and tutorials will help you do just that.

Creating Your Research Question
These videos and tutorials will give you strategies for brainstorming, show you how to narrow your topic down, and craft your research question.
Search Strategies
These videos and tutorials will give you valuable tools to use in searching through databases to find precisely the information for which you are looking.