Strategy Presentation

Helping Students Learn to Research
-      As one of the main projects that students are responsible for in EN 2135 is a research project, you can expect to have some students who are unsure about how to go about research or haven never done research before. need to work through (or vice versa)
 * Challenges you may face with student researchers:
 * Lack of knowledge about available resources
 * Unsure of how research works or functions
 * Students may have never seen examples of what is expected of them before
 * Students may be too focused on the content of their research to understand the process they


 * Some ways that you, as a tutor or instructor, can help better educate students as to how to go about research and why research functions the way it does are:
 * Educate students about not just the library’s existence but how to use it and the different sources of information accessible there
 * ·       You could do this in your own classes via examples or by scheduling writing days

research and will usually have a good idea of where to start looking for information on your topic.
 * Help students to understand how Librarians are a resource available to them. They are experts on
 * Show student’s examples of your own researching (such as personal annotations, or bibliographies). Explain to them what purpose each of your steps serve.
 * Demonstrate the way that a source’s citation can lead to other sources that are central to the topic they are researching. Connect the dots
 * Put them in touch with faculty who are experts on their chosen topics who can serve sources of highly specialized knowledge. Consider seeing if faculty would be willing to work on more long-term research projects with students.
 * Be clear about the goals that your research assignments want students to achieve.
 * Help students to understand research as a process instead of research as a content dump.