Research Tutorials

STARS Tutorial

Students Tackle Academic Resources (STARS) Tutorial was designed by LCC librarians to teach students how to locate credible and reliable information. The tutorial should take about two hours to complete.

Finding Information

• How to Find a Topic - Lansing Community College
• How to Search OneSearch - Lansing Community College
• Choosing a Database - Lansing Community College
• Finding an Article in General OneFile - Lansing Community College
• Advanced Database Searching - Lansing Community College
• One Perfect Source? - North Carolina State University
• Picking Your Topic IS Research - North Carolina State University

Evaluating Information

• Magazine or Journal? Use Ulrichsweb to Find Out - Lansing Community College
• Identifying and Evaluating Sources - Lansing Community College
• Evaluating Medical Information - Lansing Community College
• Jane Says: CRAAP Test - Parkland College
• Peer Review in 3 Minutes - North Carolina State University
• Anatomy of a Scholarly Journal Article - North Carolina State University
• Information Cycle - University of South Florida Library

Citation and Plagiarism

• MLA Citation - Lansing Community College Library
• Citation: A (Very Brief Introduction) - North Carolina State University
• Plagiarism Tutorials - Indiana University Bloomington
• You Quote It! You Note It! - Acadia University
• Understanding Plagiarism - Butler University
• What is Plagiarism? - Rutgers University