LibGuides: InfoLit Modules at Andrews University: Home: Getting Started with Research

Module 1: Getting Started with Research

Understand what information literacy is and why it is important in school, the workplace, and society; Know resources available to build information literacy skills; Identify how information is needed and used in everyday life.

The Research Process

1. Tutorial: Why Information Literacy Matters

2. Video: Life in the Information Age

3. Video: The Research Process

4. Tutorial: Developing a Research Focus

5. Tutorial: Choosing a Topic

6. Video: How to Narrow Your Topic

7. Tutorial: Background Research Tips

8. Video: Beginning Research with Wikipidia/Google

9. Video: Thesis Statements

10. Tutorial: Scholarship as Conversation

11. Quiz: The Research Process

Creating A Thesis Statement

1. Video: Thesis Statements

2. Quiz: Thesis Statements

Attention AU Instructors!

AU Instructors: use this guide to learn more about how to incorporate information literacy into your course design.