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CJL 200

Organizing Your Research

1. Create folder (in One Drive, Google Drive, Dropbox...) and title the name of the class.

2. Create another folder inside the class folder. This is where you will:

a. Save your notes (and citations) for the assignment.

b. Save all scanned/electronic sources.

3. Open Word document

a. Give it title related to assignment (e.g. Notes for Climate Change paper)

b. Save in the assignment folder

One Drive: Uploading and Syncing Files

Class Agenda

1. Library webpage overview

2. I-Share & Interlibrary Loan

3. Web vs. Library Research

4. Scholarly vs. non-scholarly articles

5. Developing a good researchable question

6. Keywords & Boolean search techniques

7. Organizing Your Research

Using One Drive to Organize Research

Finding and Saving Citation Information