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- Research Exercise #1 – Bibliography-based Fetch-a-book (Mary George, Princeton) 169
- Research Exercise #2 – Main Catalog Keyword Searching (Mary George, Princeton) 170
- Research Exercise #3 – Exploring the Library’s Web Page (Mary George, Princeton) 170
- Research Exercise #4 – Browsing the Stacks (Mary George, Princeton) 171
- Research Exercise #5 – Research in Newspapers (Ryan Wepler) 172
- Research Exercise #6 – Find a Course Reading (Mary George, Princeton) 173
- Research Exercise #7 – Reading for Research in Write Now! (Ryan Wepler) 174
- Research Exercise #8 – Identifying Research Strategies in Write Now! (Ryan Wepler) 174
- Source Functions across the Disciplines 176
- Research Exercise #9 – Finding New Sources during Revision (Ryan Wepler) 178
- Research Exercise #10 –The Colbert Report Warns against Wikipedia 178
- Research Exercise #11 – Spot the Errors in Integrating Sources (Kerry Walk, Princeton) 178
- Research Exercise #12 – Hands-On Reference List (Kerry Walk, Princeton) 179
- Research Exercise #13 – Evaluating Sources (Kerry Walk, Princeton) 179
- Research Exercise #14 – Follow Up a Citation (Kerry Walk, Princeton) 179
- Research Exercise #15 – Before and After a Source (Kerry Walk, Princeton) 179
- Research Exercise #16 – Reading for Form and Function (Kerry Walk) 180
- Research Exercise #17 – Critical Reading of Source-Based Writing (Kerry Walk) 180
- Research Exercise #18 – Citation Exercise (Jessie Stickgold-Sarah) 181
- Research Exercise #19 – Synthesizing Sources (Ryan Wepler) 182
- Research Exercise #20 – Narrowing Research Topics (Cory Nelson) 182
- Exercise #21: Integrating Quotations from Outside Sources 183
- Research Exercise #21: Articulating Your Research Project 184
- WHERE AM I? Assessing Your Research 186
- Can the Topic Be Researched? 186
- Refining Research Essay Topics 188
- Appraising Sources 188
- How to “Frame” in a Research Essay 192
- Useful Phrases for Integrating Sources 197
- Lesson Plan: Working with Annotated Bibliographies (Anne Caswell Klein, Princeton) 197
- Lesson Plan: Working with Sources (Lauren Holm) 200
- Peer Review Sheet for Working with Sources 202
- Lesson Plan: Effective Research When Students Know Their Topic 202
- Hand-out for students working with a database 206
- Lesson Plan: Using Literature Search to Narrow Research Topic (Amanda Hemmesch) 207
- Lesson Plan: Topic Narrowing (Kevin Doyle) 208
- Lesson Plan: Reading Sources for Keyterms (Sandie Friedman, Princeton) 208
- Lesson Plan on Applying a Lens: Using Tags to Contextualize (Danielle Coriale) 210