Course curriculum

  • 1

    Introduction

    • Welcome to Research Basics
  • 2

    What is Research?

    • Understanding Research

    • What Research Is and Isn’t?

    • Why Work on Research Skills?
  • 3

    Finding a Research Question

    • Demystifying the Research Question

    • Finding Inspiration

    • What Makes a Good Research question?

    • Refining a Research question

    • Activity: Overview

    • Activity: Forming Research Questions

    • Sample Answer
  • 4

    Locating Sources and Taking Notes

    • What Is Sourcing?

    • Evaluating Sources

    • Evaluating Sources Continued

    • Notes and Citations

    • Activity: Overview

    • Activity: Evaluating Sources
  • 5

    Organizing Research

    • Find Your Thesis

    • Grouping and Summarizing Ideas

    • Logical Orders

    • Activity: Forming Structures

    • Sample Answer

    • Next Steps