This tutorial is primarily designed for undergraduates at the University of Idaho, especially those in English 101-102, who are writing a research paper for a class.  It may also be useful to other UI students who need a refresher or update on finding information.   In addition, parts may be useful to students at other universities who need to learn, for example, how the Library of Congress call number system works, or how to tell the difference between article citations and book citations. 

Content

The tutorial walks through the process of narrowing a topic, finding information and evaluating sources.  Both UI Library and Web sources are shown. There are five sections and you can begin at any one.  UI students in English 101-102 should go through the whole tutorial.  There is a quiz at the end. After sending the quiz, English 101-102 students should print out the feedback page to turn in to their instructors.

Credits

This tutorial's content was written by Diane Prorak, Reference Librarian and Library Instruction Coordinator at the UI Library, adapting it from a previous UI Library tutorial written by Tania Gottschalk and Diane Prorak. Shawn Rider, UI Department of English, was the web designer. Jennie Nelson, UI Department of English, was an advisor. Work on this tutorial was funded by a Teaching and Learning Grant from the University of Idaho and by the University of Idaho Library. 

Thanks to Gale Research (InfoTrac Expanded Academic Index) and Alta Vista for permission to use their Web screens.  Also thanks to Bill Kerr (UI Library) and David Schlater (ITS) for technical assistance.

Use

Permission is granted for use of this tutorial (including print copies or electronic linking) only under the following conditions:
1. Use is for non-commercial, educational purposes
2. Appropriate credit is given
For any other uses or for permission to make electronic copies, please contact the first author, Diane Prorak.

Technical

This tutorial was designed by Shawn Rider using Microsoft FrontPage98 as a design and management tool. Some pages on this site utilize scripts written by Tim Johnson. Other pages utilize scripts generated by Roller (tm), a free script generation engine available from Nebulus.org. Many thanks to Tim, and the gang at Nebulus, for making such great scripts available.