Featured Website of the Day: the Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue

Among many of the faculty in our College of Education, the Online Writing Lab (OWL), created and maintained by the English Department at Purdue University, is considered to be one of the most reliable and accurate guides for citing sources in APA and MLA style.  During library instruction sessions, I usually recommend this online source to [...]

Research Tip of the Day: But my professor said “don’t use the Internet!”

As the Education Librarian, I spend most of my time trying to steer students towards the library databases to which we subscribe in order to find peer- reviewed journal articles. The Internet often gets ignored or, perhaps, even a bad rap, as we constantly warn students about our greatest concerns, notabaly the lack of peer [...]

Research Tip of the Day: Limiting a Search to Specific Research Methodologies

“Help!!! I can’t find an “empirical” research article!  Okay, so you are in a research class and you are freaking out because you have been asked to find DIFFERENT types of research methodologies and evalutate them. You have no problem finding research articles but you can’t tell what type of methodology was used.  Good news! [...]