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Information Literacy Tutorials

These tutorials are available to help you develop the skills needed to effectively locate, evaluate, and use information. If you are viewing them from inside the IVC Library, borrow earphones from the Circulation Desk.


Deciphering Your Assignment

Deciphering your assignment

Deconstruct an assignment to its basic parts and identify appropriate resources to successfully complete it.
Developing a Topic

Developing a topic

How to develop an appropriate topic for a research paper by considering goals, approaches, topic scope and helpful resources.
Generating Search Terms

Generating search terms

This tutorial will help you discover how to generate effective search terms for internet or database searching
Internet Searching Tips

Internet searching tips

Internet search tips and strategies.
Evaluating Internet Sources

Evaluating internet sources

Find out how you can effectively evaluate information that you find on the web.
What is a Library Database?

What is a library database

Discover what sort of information you might find in library databases and understand when to use them appropriately for research.

Why You Need to Cite Sources


Why you need to cite sources

Some of the reasons it is important to cite sources when writing a research paper.
Incorporating Sources into
Your Paper


Incorporating sources into your paper

How to incorporate sources into your college/university papers by effectively structuring sources, including analysis and using sources to support an argument.

Popular and Scholarly Sources


Popular and scholarly sources

How to differentiate between popular and scholarly sources and be able to use them appropriately in your search.

Primary and Secondary Sources

Primary and secondary sources

Distinguish between primary and secondary sources and be able to use them appropriately in your research.

The tutorials offered on this page have been prepared by the Cooperative Library Instruction Project and are licensed for use under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike agreement.

Deciphering Your Assignment
Developing a Topic Generating Search Terms Evaluating Internet Sources Why You Need to Cite Sources Incorporating Sources into Your Paper Popular and Scholarly Sources Primary and Secondary Sources