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Provide an overview of the Big 6 Research Model and its importance in the academic research process. This module will set the foundation for understanding how the framework will guide students through their research projects.
Focus on identifying key elements in research assignment to better understand the research tasks and developing research questions.
Introduce students to different types of academic resources, effective search strategies like Boolean operators and the CRAAP test for source evaluation.
Introduce searching techniques in library databases, catalogs, and online platforms and instruct to use library services and interlibrary loans.
Cover identifying relevant information, applying effective reading skills and strategies, mastering note-taking techniques, and managing sources with tools like Zotero.
Focus on writing with integrity through paraphrasing, quoting, summarizing, and synthesizing, while teaching how to use citations and references. You'll also learn effective methods for organizing your research and ideas.
Focus on how to review your research for quality, check for plagiarism, and evaluate sources while reflecting on your work to maintain academic integrity throughout your process.
In this section we will teach you how to avoid plagiarism using different skills like paraphrasing, summarising, synthesising and quoting, as well as specific referencing styles.
Here, we give introductions on how to use tools such as Google Classroom, Turnitin, Microsoft Editor, and others.
Here we introduce you to following apps that ease up your workflow and enable collaboration online: Drive, Click Up, Trello, Excel.
