Raya can design and teach research skills sessions around the specific skills students need to be successful on your research assignments, for example:
- Developing focused research topics and developing a research question
- Advanced search techniques and search strategy
- Identifying differences between Google and Summon (the library's discovery service)
- Finding scholarly sources in the library's collection
- Identifying differences between popular and scholarly sources
- Identifying peer-reviewed articles and what peer-review is
- Analyzing and evaluating sources
- Using sources to build arguments
- Putting together citations and/or annotations
- Avoiding plagiarism
- Finding specialized information, such as datasets
- How to do a literature review
- And more...
If your class is online, consider options including:
- embedding Raya into your Canvas course as a librarian
- requesting tutorial videos or other Canvas content
- holding a virtual session in Zoom
