IL Confidence

On a scale of 1-5, How confident are you that you can find a fantastic resource for a research paper?

• 1- Not at all

• 2- Somewhat

• 3- Fairly confident

• 4- Pretty sure I can

• 5- 100% Can find one

How confident are you that you can tell if an article is from a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal?

• 1- Not at all

• 2- Somewhat

• 3- Fairly confident

• 4 - Pretty sure I can

• 5- 100% Can do it

Think back to the most recent research paper you wrote. How would you rate the resources you found?

• 1- They were barely useful.

• 2- They were okay.

• 3- They were average and sufficient.

• 4- They were really good!

• 5- They were the best sources available on the topic!

Thinking back to the last research paper you did, when you were searching for a resource what strategies did you use?

• Come up with as many synonyms as possible

• Limit my search to a type of source (like .org or scholarly journals)

• Use AND/OR/NOT to include or exclude terms

• Limit by date ranges

• None of these

Thinking back to that same paper, how did you search for your resources? (check all that apply)

• Google (or similar)

• Walked through library stacks

• Advanced Google search

• Newspaper / Magazine (print or online)

• Searched a Library Database

Thinking back to that same research paper, which of these things describes the author(s) of the BEST source you found?

• Don't know / Couldn't find an author

• Nobody special wrote it

• They had some achievements listed about them

• I could tell they had some degrees

• They had first-hand experience with the topic