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Is This Article from a Peer-Reviewed Journal?

When you find an article to use in your research, how do you determine if it is from a peer-reviewed journal? Many professors will assign papers and research projects that require you to find and use

How to choose your news - Damon Brown

How do you know what's happening in your world? The amount of information just a click away may be limitless, but the time and energy we have to absorb and evaluate it is not. All the information in t

Types of Journal Articles

Most periodicals fall into one of three categories: popular, trade/professional, and scholarly/academic. Online journals can be any of the three categories. So examine those carefully. As with the res

How to support Research with Theoretical and C...

In the comments of one of my quantitative research videos I was asked: “how do you support your study relationship based on a theoretical or conceptual framework?” That is a great question! There

Kurt Cobain on Identity | Blank on Blank

Jon Savage: Did you have problems in high school? Kurt Cobain: Yeah. You know I felt so different and so crazy that people just left me alone. I always felt that they would vote me "Most likely to kil

Mapping Your Research Ideas

Hey there, Bruins! Here's a quick tip from your friends at the Powell Library Inquiry Lab! The first tip, Mapping Your Research Ideas. Creating a map of your research ideas is a strategy you can use w

How to Write a Summary

So we summarize all the time in our daily lives. You may summarize something interesting that you read in the news. Or you may summarize a movie plot line for a friend Or a lesson for a classmate who

Academic journal

An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentatio

LEADERSHIP LAB: The Craft of Writing Effectively

- Let me immediately clarify things a bit by telling you a little bit about the difference of the University of Chicago's writing program. We're one of, as far as we know, two in the country who takes

What doctors don't know about the drugs th...

Translator: Joseph Geni Reviewer: Morton Bast Hi. So, this chap here, he thinks he can tell you the future. His name is Nostradamus, although here the Sun have made him look a little bit like Sean Con

Concept Analysis: Walker and Avant's Tradi...

Concepts can be viewed from opposing ontological and epistemological perspectives. Concept analysis enables concept development, knowledge enhancement and use in research or clinical practice. Among t

Research demonstration (part 3 - Finding journ...

So in the previous two videos we've had a look at our broad- to mid-range resources on the pyramid there. What I'd like to do now is demonstrate how to search for relevant journal articles. And you'll