Module 3: Understanding Sources: Intro

Module 1: Getting started with research

Module 2: Finding Sources

*  Module 3: Understanding Sources

Module 4: Synthesizing & Using Sources

Important to the research project is the use of appropriate sources, as well as the tracking of the sources. Use this research guide to assist in understanding how to read scholarship and in tracking sources.

Your instructor will help you understand your discipline’s conventions and conversations in class lectures and readings, and you will also learn this information as you complete formal and informal assignments.  In the meantime you can familiarize yourself with writing within a discipline with these guides: