A RESEARCH PRIMER:

PERSUASIVE ESSAY

STEP 1

NOODLE TOOLS log in

STEP 2

WHO IS A SCHOLAR? ARE YOU?

STEP 3

YOOHOO. WHERE ARE YOU? SCHOLARS? SCHOLARS?

STEP 4

HOW DO I FIND THESE SCHOLARS AT HOME?

THOSE SCHOLARS, aka, LIBRARY SOURCES

GOING GLOBAL? PUT THOSE ISSUES IN CONTEXT (A DATABASE)

PROQUEST HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS for primary source articles from the archives of The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Chicago Tribune--trust me, you'll hit a paywall on the web.

OTHER (GOOD) SOURCES

HYPER LOCAL? TRY SOME INTERVIEW TIPS

ALL SIDES to see how a current issue is written from the left, the right, and center. Consider the ISSUES section for guided topic areas.

DON'T FORGETS

Doing research at home? You will need to log into the database. Refer to the username and password here.

REMEMBER: You need to cite your sources in MLA. Here are the citation managers we have available.

SEARCH TIPS

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quotes around a search term keeps terms together; search engine won't search for each term separately (ex. "vegetarian diet")

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tilda's before search terms search for like terms (ex. ~vegetarian diet will search for vegetarian, vegetarians, vegetarianism, veggie diet, and beyond...)