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Workshop Objectives
Instructors: For each workshop, you may review the learning objectives that will be covered so that you can understand the scope of the material.
It’s a TRAAP! Evaluating Information Sources
After completing this workshop, students will be able to:
- Identify research tools & resources available through the USF Libraries
- Define the term “authority” as it pertains to research
- Identify at least three indicators of authority when presented with a list of possible criteria
- Correctly identify each criteria of the TRAAP test for source evaluation
- Apply the TRAAP test to a set of provided examples
Is a Picture Worth a Thousand Words? Interpreting Graphs, Tables & Charts
After completing this workshop, students will be able to:
- Explain why correct interpretation of quantitative evidence is important in research and career development
- Correctly identify examples of quantitative evidence, such as graphs, tables, and charts, when presented with different kinds of data
- Correctly match a provided set of graphs, tables or charts with their corresponding textual descriptions
- Correctly explain the information being conveyed by the data in a graph, table, or chart
- Identify different methods that are sometimes employed to mislead readers when presented with quantitative evidence
- Correctly identify misleading charts, tables and graphs when presented with both sound and intentionally deceptive examples
Eavesdropping on Researchers: Discovering the Many Modes of Scholarly Communication
After completing this workshop, students will be able to:
- Identify the correct definition of scholarly or academic conversation
- Identify the student’s role as an active participant in scholarly or academic conversations
- Differentiate between formal and informal modalities of scholarly conversations
- Identify some of the features inherent in scholarly or academic conversations
- Explain how the modality of the conversation can affect the pace of the conversation and scholarly publication cycle
Every Issue has Two Sides: Discovering Evidence for Opposing Claims
After completing this workshop, students will be able to:
- Identify the characteristics of a hypothesis, claim, or argument
- Locate the hypothesis in a scholarly article
- Explain the core argument of a stated hypothesis
- Locate credible evidence that supports one side of a claim or argument
- Discuss given examples of opposing, credible claims to a fact or hypothesis
Going Down the Rabbit Hole: Finding Relevant Information for your Paper
After completing this workshop, students will be able to:
- Articulate strategies for locating relevant sources of information as they pertain to the research question
- Determine the relevance of sources when provided with an example research question
- Identify additional search paths by employing hyperlinked terms in databases or bibliography citations
That Changes Everything! Seeing Shifts in Scholarly Perspectives
After completing this workshop, students will be able to:
- Discuss example sources from different time periods, illustrating how scholarly perspectives have changed over time
- Identify possible causes for shifts in scholarly perspective, such as changes in knowledge, understanding, or culture
- Locate library resources published in different time periods that demonstrate shifts in perspective over time
- Discuss how scholarly perspectives have shifted over time for a particular topic when presented with a set of examples
Researching Like Goldilocks: Creating a Topic that is Neither Too Broad Nor Too Narrow
After completing this workshop, students will be able to:
- Identify the components of the research process
- Identify types of sources that will provide basic & advanced knowledge on a topic
- Identify the characteristics that make a topic either too broad or too narrow
- Create a manageable topic or research question
- Create a search plan by employing concept maps or identifying search terms related to a particular topic or research question
Help, I Need This! How Do I Find It?
After completing this workshop, students will be able to identify the following:
- Locations for style manuals in the Library
- Citations for books, book chapters, print journal articles and online journal articles.
- Where to look to identify if the Library has the materials you need.
- How to obtain a source if the Library does not own it.
After completing this workshop, students will be able to:
- Identify USF sanctions for students who plagiarize
- Define plagiarism
- Define “common knowledge”
- Identify types of plagiarism
- Read citations for three major formats containing information (books, book chapters, articles)
- Identify three different citation styles
- Identify various tools to help you with citing your sources.
Conducting a Literature Review
After completing this workshop, students will be able to:
- Identify the purpose and function of a literature review
- Develop a topic
- Identify appropriate databases
- Employ effective search strategies, such as Boolean logic, controlled vocabularies, and cited reference searching
- Evaluate sources
- Organize a literature review
After completing this workshop, students will be able to:
- Identify databases for historical research
- Locate special collections and archival resources, physical and digital
- Find and evaluate primary and secondary sources
- Get sources the Library doesn’t have